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Dr. Taghreed M. Al-Saraj is currently working as a Post Doctorate fellow at University of California, Berkeley. She is the first Saudi female Post Doctorate in the history of UC Berkeley. Dr. Al-Saraj earned both a Bachelor and a Masters in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) from the University of Miami, Florida. She earned her Ph.D. from UCL Institute of Education, University of London.

Dr. Al-Saraj was an English language lecturer at a private university in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Having seen firsthand the debilitating effects of Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) in her classrooms, she became very motivated to raise language teachers' awareness about FLA and works with them to decrease the impact of FLA on their language students. Little did she know that she would experience the foreign language anxiety her research subject talked about first hand when she embarked on the journey to learn her third language, Turkish.

She is considered one of the most important Saudi researchers publishing in top international journals focusing on language education in the Arab culture. She has presented on the topic of FLA in the Arab world and international conferences around the world. Dr. Al-Saraj is also a certified women leadership coach, international public speaker, and an educational consultant.