Ahmed Al Shlowiy

English language Institute · Jubail

Emergency remote teaching refers to the unanticipated, involuntary shift to a virtual learning environment due to, for example, a natural disaster or political instability. The sudden nature of this transition creates additional challenges to effective learning. In this article, we investigate one such challenge, namely the potential for teacher–st...

Students can improve their skills, broaden their knowledge, and practice their language using online language learning resources. These resources include several activities designed to meet students’ requirements, promote self-learning, and fit their learning preferences. This study investigates EFL teachers’ perceptions of students’ performance in...

Discovering the new variants of Coronavirus by the end of 2020 pushed many countries to continue suspending universities and schools. A complete change to online learning seemed the only available option to continue education given the detection of new Coronavirus variants. Such a long time of using online learning can display how teachers experien...

The study looked at language teachers’ views of their students’ disengagement in e-learning during COVID-19. It described their efforts on how to engage the learners beyond the screen, where teachers have no control, and how to overcome the issues disturbing students’ engagement, motivation, and achievement. The study looked at learning engagement...

The study intended to analyze online narrative writing of Covid-19 in a private university in Bahrain for lexical diversity and writing proficiency. At the Foundation Year program, EFL Bahraini students at the beginner and intermediate level wrote a narrative on Covid-19 via Blackboard. The researchers sought to answer four research questions: 1-Is...

Learning engagement is one of the most important issues facing online learning, which has many distractions beyond the teacher’s control and management. This study examined teachers’ observations of their students’ engagement in online learning and their efforts to engage them. Teachers can evaluate different factors and conditions that affect stud...

The researchers investigated the advantages and disadvantages of the sudden shift to e-learning from the perspectives of Saudi EFL students during COVID-19. That shift was the only learning option for a long time to come after the existence of new variants of the virus. Studying students' perspectives during the pandemic was important to display ho...

The sudden shift into online learning due to COVID-19 has produced many challenges and new educational approaches across all educational systems. Language learning systems were enforced to utilize fully remote education solutions. Responding to COVID-19 is a crucial investigation to find out the challenges, barriers, suggestions, concerns, and defi...

In this chapter, we describe the policies, curricula and pedagogical practices guiding the preparation of teachers of English as an additional language in Saudi Arabia. We start by describing the historical context, national policy and learner and teacher populations. We then focus on English teachers’ preparation programs in the country, describin...

A research problem was identified that warranted the initiation of this study. A mixed pattern for results regarding Facebook usage in EFL writing outside the classroom exists in the literature. As the researchers believed in student-centered and autonomous learning, they intended to delineate students’ perceptions of the benefits and drawbacks of...

What makes a good teacher? Literature in teacher education attests to the various complexities and difficulties in defining an effective teacher (Darling-Hammond, 2000). A good teacher should have knowledge, skills, and disposition (Glanz, 2009). However, these are not the sole elements for being a good teacher. We believe that going beyond these q...

Coronavirus (COVID-19) was declared a world pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on January 30, 2020. As a safety measure to protect people, most governments in the world, including Saudi Arabia, decided to close universities and workplaces. Prompted by this shut down, the researchers aimed to review the students� perceptions of e-learni...

In recent years, vision has become a major theme in language motivation research, capturing a core feature of modern theories of language motivation. However, empirical investigations have mostly followed the prototypical design of administering self-report questionnaires and examining correlations among a handful of variables. At the same time, su...

The researchers used an intact class of convenience at the English Language Institute (ELI) in Jubail, Saudi Arabia to conduct their study to find out about the students' perspectives about the use of blogs as an additional out-of-class ESL writing activity. These perspectives were important as mixed results about benefits and limitations of the us...

The Arabic language is associated with Islam and is the language of the Holy Qur’an, which Muslims believe to be God’s words. Due to religious, educational, socio-cultural, and geographic factors, Qur’anic Arabic is revered by many Muslims in the Asian Pacific countries, who use the language to perform religious rituals. Those Muslims use the langu...

The manner in which language is utilized to represent social issues in the public space such as in the print media can have far-reaching implications, not only on the issues being reported but also on the characters around those issues. One of the social issues often reported in the media is education and the process of its reportage including the...

Al Shlowiy, A. (2015). Teaching in American context with foreign experiences. International Research Journal of Education and Innovation (IRJEI), 1(3), 1-26.

Al Shlowiy, A. (2014). Lifting motivation level of English learners in Saudi Arabia. Arab World English Journal (AWEJ), 5(1), 129-136, ISSN: 2229-9327.

Al Shlowiy, A. (2014). Texting abbreviations and language learning. International Journal of Arts & Sciences, 7(3), 455-468. ISSN: 1944-6934.

This article centers on the development of multimedia and technology that proliferates around 21st century English language learners creating a media—rich environment, but accessibility of these may not be similar on how other learners may benefit. This imparts how learners benefit indiscriminately through integrative Computer Assisted Language Lea...

Many Saudi universities recently have used different technologies including a learning management system (LMS) to establish their blended learning systems. Faculty and students are encouraged to use online resources in their courses. I was interested in learning if English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers used Blackboard as a LMS to promote Eng...