-  ‘Well-regarded Lecturer Award’ (the University of Newcastle)

This Award is a vote by students at the University of Newcastle organised by the Humanities and Social Science Student Forum “to acknowledge your highest regard held for your work”.

Unedited student comments: “Dr Abdel El Hankari is contagiously passionate and always seem to have time for conversation about linguistics”; “Abdel is a great teacher and always helpful, pleasant and happy to explain concepts over and over until they sink in”; “Thank you for helping me finally understand complementary distribution”.

-  ‘Most Effective Teacher Award’ (the University of Queensland)

This nomination is undertaken by the Bachelor of Arts students who received a “Dean’s Recommendation of High Achievement” to choose the “most effective teacher”.

Unedited comment(s): “I found Abdel to be very helpful and knew the subject well”.