Esseili, F. (2020). Civic nationalism and language-in-education policies in the UAE. In K. MacIntosh (Ed.), Applied linguistics and language teaching in the neo-nationalist era. Palgrave MacMillan

• Esseili, F. (2019). Innovation in L2 writing instruction: Towards nurturing confident, motivated, and academically honest L2 writers. In H. Reinders, C. Coombe, A. Littlejohn, & D. Tafazoli (Eds.), Innovation in language learning and teaching: The case of the Middle East and North Africa, pp. 85 – 107.
Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

• Esseili, F. (2017). A sociolinguistic profile of English in Lebanon. World Englishes, 36(4), 684 – 704

• Esseili, F. (2016). The status of ESL/EFL writing in Lebanon. In T. Silva & J. Paiz (Eds.), Writing in the global context: Represented, underrepresented, and unrepresented voices (pp. 142 – 175). Beijing: The Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

• Lawrick, E. & Esseili, F. (2015). Familiar strangers: International students in the U.S. composition course. In N. Evans & N. Anderson (Eds.), ESL readers and writers in higher education: Understanding challenges, providing support (pp. 80 – 94). New York: Routledge.

• Esseili, F. (2014). English language teaching in Lebanon: Trends and challenges. In K. M. Bailey & R. M. Damerow (Eds.), The teaching and learning of English in the Arabic speaking world (pp. 101 – 114).
New York: Routledge.

• Esseili, F. (2010). Comment 4 on lingua franca or lingua frankensteinia? English in European integration and globalization. In Robert Phillipson’s Linguistic imperialism continued (pp. 183 – 184). Routledge

• Esseili, F., McIntosh, K., Torres, C., Lawrick, E., McMartin-Miller, C., & Chang, S. (2009). World Englishes: Practical implications for teaching and research. INTESOL journal, 6 (1), 7 – 22

• Esseili, F. (2008). Comment 4 on lingua franca or lingua frankensteinia? English in European integration and globalization. World Englishes, 27 (2), 274-275.

• Esseili, F. (2008). Spatial deixis and gesture in English: Adults vs. children. The Purdue Linguistic Association Working Papers, 1 (1), 204 – 218

• Esseili, F. (2006). Deictic reference: Arabs vs. Arab Americans. Unpublished MA thesis. The University of Toledo. Toledo, OH. USA