Fadi Maher Saleh Al-Khasawneh

King Khalid University | KKU · English Language and Translation

This study aimed at investigating the academic writing problems of the Arab postgraduate students of the College of Business at Universiti Utara Malaysia and to provide solutions to these problems. For this purpose, four research questions were posed and the answers to these questions were provided and discussed. The data for the study were collect...

The present study compares and contrasts the refusal speech act in Jordanian Arabic and American English. The refusal speech act is among the most dominant issues in disciplines such as educational environment and social work. Researchers become more interested in such topics as it helps them to compare and contrast between native and non-native sp...

Word formation through affixation is one of the most important elements in achieving the English language proficiency. The previous literature on this research area revealed that learners of English find it difficult to use affixation properly in their academic writing. Therefore, this study sought to identify the errors of affixation use committed...

Introduction. Research that investigated effective strategies for learning foreign language vocabulary revealed that long spacing facilitates learning more than short or no spacing. This phenomenon is known as distributed practice effect. Aim. The present study aimed to examine the effect of spaced instruction on vocabulary learning and retention a...

Semantic mapping is perceived as an effective strategy for vocabulary mastery, since it presents a mechanism that helps learners connect their prior knowledge to the current knowledge in a hierarchical form to study the relationship between words. This study sought to examine the potential significant impact of teaching semantic mapping on students...

The present study aimed at exploring the challenges faced by Jordanian parents and ways of support they provided to their children during online classes at the time of COVID-19 pandemic. It also aimed at investigating the difference between parental engagement in online education and two variables (i.e., school type and level of education). The res...

Peer review plays a vital and major role to determine the fate of manuscripts submitted to international academic journals. The present study analyzed the discourse structure and the language use of a corpus containing 43 peer review reports from journals from three disciplines (i.e., Applied Linguistics, Accounting, and Sociology). This study anal...

Purpose This study aimed at providing a systematic review of the research conducted on the application of the eclectic approach in language teaching since 2016. Design/methodology/approach The articles have been selected from seven renowned databases (i.e. EBSCO, Online Library, Scopus, ScienceDirect, Sage Journal Online, Education Resources Infor...

Figurative language is a part of Stylistics and there was much research on how figurative language was used in different contexts. The present research aimed at analyzing the figurative language used in Saudi news headlines related to Coronavirus (COVID-19). A descriptive qualitative research design was used in this study. The data source of this s...

This study aimed at exploring the linguistic mitigating devices of requests used by Saudi EFL learners. The participants of this study were 97 students enrolled in the English program at King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia. The data of this study were collected by Discourse Completion Test (DCT) questionnaire designed for the purpose of this study...

Abstrak Penelitian ilmiah sangat penting karena memberikan kontribusi bagi pembangunan bangsa-bangsa di dunia. Namun, ada kelangkaan penelitian empiris yang dilakukan untuk menyelidiki tantangan produksi penelitian di antara anggota fakultas di universitas. Penelitian ini berusaha untuk menggali persepsi, tantangan, dan saran untuk meningkatkan pro...

Vocabulary size knowledge is considered as a crucial factor in academic success and it could be enlarged through several ways. The purpose of the present study was to examine the correlation between morphological awareness and vocabulary size knowledge of Saudi participants at King Khalid University. The present study used the correlational researc...

The present study aims at identifying the level of metacognitive thinking among a group of students with learning disabilities (LDs) in Asir region, Saudi Arabia. The present study has taken into account certain variables when investigating this issue such as age, grade, and type of learning difficulties. The sample of this study consisted of 350 s...

There is an increasing interest in studies investigating the correlation between Test-Taking Strategies (TTSs) and reading comprehension achievement among EFL learners. The relationship between the aforementioned variables is still unclear and more studies are needed in this area. The major concern of this study is to examine the correlational rela...

Speech tools are varied, one of the most important types used by learners or speakers to communicate is stress. Speakers use stress to highlight the information they think it is important and if people do not use stress, the listener will be confused and there will be a misunderstanding for language. The objectives of the study were as follows: to...

Vocabulary knowledge is the building block of learning a second language and the success of learning any language depends on the amount of vocabulary that learners possess. Vocabulary knowledge contributes to mastering language skills (reading, listening, writing, and speaking). Therefore, the present study aims at determining the role of vocabular...

The present study aimed at investigating the effect of teaching mnemonic keyword strategy on vocabulary learning and retention among students with learning disabilities in Asir region, Saudi Arabia. The participants of this study included 40 students with learning disabilities studying in the ninth grade in one of the middle schools in Abha, Saudi...

People often use euphemistic utterances or expressions to avoid offensive or tabooed topics, to make them more implicit and considerate. This paper explores the euphemistic strategies used in Saudi Arabic and American English. The sample of this study includes 145 college students (78 Saudis and 67 Americans). A questionnaire adopted from Rabab’ah...

Demotivation is a research area which has recently been the focus of many research works in language learning field. In Saudi context, there is lack of reserach that investigated demotivating factors affecting learning English among Saudi undergraduate students. Therefore, this study aims at investigating the factors affecting English as a Foreign...

Research abstract has gained significant attention from the academic community as an important part-genre in the research article. A well-organized abstract would attract more readers and improve the opportunities of indexing and citation. This study aims at analyzing twenty abstracts written by native and non-native speakers of English in the Appl...

This study aimed to enhance the oral communication skills (conversations) of ANU students. The sample of the study consisted of 20 students (12 female students and 8 male students) all of them are studying English language, the majority of the sample were the seniors and juniors students, while freshman were minority students. The researchers used...

This study investigates the level and sources of foreign language learning anxiety experienced by Saudi students studying at King Khalid University (KKU). It also aims to examine the differences between the level of language anxiety and the students' study level. For this purpose, 97 English majored students from different levels were purposively c...

p>The present study aimed at investigating the motivational orientations of Jordanian gifted school students in Ajloun governorate. For this purpose, 51 students from King Abdullah II in Ajloun governorate participated in this study. Data was collected through a questionnaire contained 20 items asking about the motivational level and orientation of...

This study aimed to examine the relationship between foreign language anxiety and future anxiety among a sample of high school students in Ajloun governorate. The study also aimed to investigate the differences in the two types of anxiety mentioned earlier according to gender. The sample consisted of 100 high school students who were randomly selec...

The present study aims at analyzing in a corpus of 26 English paragraphs written by 26 participants. The participants are from different academic majors who are studying at Ajloun National University in Jordan. The participants were 16 female students and 10 male students. All of the participants come from non-English speaking environment and hardl...

Previous research works on strategy instruction show that not all L2 strategy training has been effective; the results of those research works have been inconsistent and inconclusive. The present research paper aims at identifying the effects of metacognitive strategy instruction on vocabulary learning of Jordanian university students through a ten...

This paper is intended to explore the reasons behind the weakness of writing among pre-year students at Taibah University. For the purpose of this study, only one research question was provided and discussed. The participants of this study were 10 pre-year male students at Taibah University "Yanbu Branch" in Saudi Arabia for the academic year 2012-...

The present article represents the various vocabulary learning strategies employed by Jordanian students at Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST). The main purpose of this study was to investigate and find out the frequency of employing vocabulary learning strategies of learners of English as a foreign language in Jordan. For this purp...

The current study aims at investigating the language learning strategies that are most frequently employed by EFL learners at Yarmouk University. It also aims to find out if there are statistically significant differences in the use of language learning strategies in relation to gender. The sample of this study encompasses 121 students (65 male stu...