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September 2006 - August 2020
September 2013 - September 2017
August 2015 - August 2016
Al-Ghad International Colleges for Applied Medical Sciences
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Voice Onset Time (VOT) is an essential acoustic parameter that phoneticians use to distinguish between voiced and voiceless stop consonants. This parameter is generally overlooked in Arabic dialects and The Emirati Arabic Dialects (EAD). This study explores the voicing contrast of stop consonants by measuring voice onset time as produced by EAD spe...
The passive voice represents a marked syntactic construction in language, and its usage requires a systematic analysis to fully comprehend its complexities. The role of the passive voice in the Holy Quran has not been adequately explored in previous studies. This research aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of all passive verbs found in the Ho...
We analyze how social actors are represented in articles about climate change policies in the Arab World, based on twelve news articles from pro-government news, covering the period from 2021 to 2024. The articles were selected to cover the study topic, focusing on those that were found to report on the multiple social actors involved in the proces...
This study investigates the impacts of age and gender on the use of euphemistic strategies in Alexandrian Arabic, a dialect that is spoken in the coastal city of Alexandria to the north-west of Egypt. To achieve this objective, a role-play that includes 6 situations categorised to account for the age and gender variables groups was developed and ad...
This study explores the influence of gender and social status on advice-giving strategies in Algerian Arabic. The study involved 50 native Algerian Arabic speakers (25 males and 25 females) who completed a Discourse Completion Task. This task, designed to measure the gender and social status variables, presented three types of advice-giving situati...
This article analyzes the translation of Key-Phrase (KP) allusions in the short story collection "al-' Abarāt" by Al-Manfaluti from Arabic to English. More specifically, it looks into how the translator handled the complexity that arises from the highly intertextual and dialogical nature of Al-Manfaluti's work. Drawing on Leppihalme's (1997) catego...
The speech act of political self-praise has received scant attention in East Asian contexts, unlike other speech acts. This study aims to explore the strategies of self-praise used by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The 2016 US presidential debates were analysed quantitatively to examine if there are any differences in using self-praise strategie...
The study aims to investigate the ideological manipulation of language within news media headlines regarding the killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. This study employs Van Dijk’s socio-cognitive model of Critical Discourse Analysis to conduct a comparative qualitative analysis of 100 Arabic and 100 English news headlines, exploring...
This study explores the construction of authorial stance in English and Arabic newspaper editorials. To achieve this objective, the study examines a corpus of 80 newspaper editorials retrieved from two newspapers: The first publishes in English (The Guardian, the UK), and the second publishes in Arabic (Addustour, Jordan). The study adopts Hyland’s...
This study investigates the metaphorical representations of physical pain amongst Algerian Arabic speakers. To uncover these conceptualisations, an oral Discourse Completion Test (DCT) was administered to 30 Algerian university students. A qualitative approach was used to analyse the data and generate the conceptual metaphors used. Grounded in Köve...
This study explores the important role of ideology in the translation process, highlighting the perspective of culture that translation studies have embraced in recent years to unveil how ideology interplays and influences the decisions of the translator. This paper focuses on the Arabic translation of Mark Twain's 'Huckleberry Finn', using Critica...
This study presents an exploration of reprimand strategies in Spoken Jordanian Arabic (SJA). It also explores how gender influences the use of these strategies. The data were collected from 100 Jordanian native speakers of Arabic using a DCT. The mixed method analysis revealed that the participants employed bald on record, positive politeness strat...
This study presents an exploration of reprimand strategies in Spoken Jordanian Arabic (SJA). It alsoexplores how gender influences the use of these strategies. The data were collected from 100 Jordanian native speakers of Arabic using a DCT.The mixed method analysis revealed that the participants employed bald on record, positive politeness strateg...
This study examines the linguistic features utilised by male and female native English speakers during their Talks at Google using Lakoff and Lakoff’s framework of women’s language. The analysis is conducted on a sample of 14 videos, consisting of seven for each gender, using a mixed-method approach. The quantitative analysis presents the frequenci...
This study explored the compliment response (CR) strategies used by Emirati Arabic speakers. In addition, the study analysed the role of gender and the degree of formality in the use of CR strategies in this Arabic dialect. To this end, the study recruited 56 (28 males and 28 females) undergraduate students from the University of Sharjah (UAE). A w...
The present research aimed to evaluate the comprehension level of conversational implicature among a group of 30 senior Native Arabic-speaking students enrolled in the BA program of English Language and Literature at a UAE university. The participants’ comprehension of implicatures was assessed by providing them with 20 excerpts from the American s...
The speeches delivered by Former U.S. President Donald Trump during his last presidential campaign (2015–2016) included hateful remarks against Muslims and immigrants. This study explored strategies of hate speech used in Trump’s political discourse against out-groups. The data consisted of a corpus of Trump’s speeches and interviews. Our analysis...
The fusion of education with the digital world is still a developing and crucial phenomenon, especially in light of the growth of metaverse applications and the lingering effects of pandemic-induced educational changes. Learning about the efficacy of platforms like Gather.town becomes increasingly important in this situation. This study explores th...
This study examines the employment of persuasive strategies in informational emails that market products and/or services, illustrating how these strategies influence target customers and persuade them to make purchases. A corpus of 850 emails, encompassing over a million words, was compiled and analyzed using a mixed-method approach that integrated...
This study aims to know the determinants of demonstrative selection in contexts where speakers of Jordanian Arabic (JA) use deictic demonstratives without aid from distinguishing descriptions or gestures to individuate a referent that exists with a similar entity in the same communicative situation. Data collection depended on a prolonged observati...
Keywords Abstract Generalized self-efficacy; intrinsic motivation; metaverse; small group discussions; speaking course. The debate on online and traditional classroom methods has gained traction in the rapidly changing world of education. This is especially true when discussing elements that are critical to the learning process, such as student mot...
This study investigated the use and functions of metadiscourse markers in English as a foreign language (EFL) virtual classroom during the Covid-19 pandemic. The study examined which metadiscourse markers-interactive or interactional-were used more frequently and how they were employed in an EFL context. It explored two interactive metadiscourse re...
This research aims to investigate the challenges that native Arabic-speaking EFL learners face in rendering the equivalent meaning of humorous excerpts selected from Plum Pie (1966), a collection of short stories by English humourist P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975). The researchers examined the translation strategies used by a sample of 16 senior Arabic...
This article examines the strategies utilized in translating conceptual metaphors from English into Arabic in the YouTube auto-generated subtitles of BBC Travel Show. It also investigates the translation errors made in YouTube subtitles. The corpus consisted of twelve episodes aired between 2015 and 2020; each was twenty-two to twenty-four minutes...
This study investigates the role of gender on EFL Learners' output of discourse functions obtained from computer-mediated communications (CMC) via Skype. The study seeks to answer the question: Are there any statistically significant differences among the total means of discourse functions generated by gender groups (same-gender (male-male (MM), an...
The prominent role of allophonic cues in English speech segmentation has widely been recognized by phonologists and psycholinguists. However, very meager inquiry was devoted to analysing the perception of these noncontrastive allophonic cues by Arab EFL learners. Accordingly, the present study is an attempt to examine the exploitation of allophonic...
This paper reports on the findings of a study that explored Jordanian EFL learners’ production of synonyms. The data were elicited through a translation task which consisted of 20 Arabic sentences to measure Jordanian EFL learners’ ability to produce the correct synonym in contextualized English sentences. The subjects were asked to translate whole...
This paper reports on the findings of a study that explored Jordanian EFL learners’ production of synonyms. The data were elicited through a translation task which consisted of 20 Arabic sentences to measure Jordanian EFL learners’ ability to produce the correct synonym in contextualized English sentences. The subjects were asked to translate whole...
This study explores the use and functions of engagement strategies in English and Arabic newspaper editorials. To this end, the study analyses 80 editorials collected from two popular newspapers (40 from each): The Guardian which publishes in English and appears in the UK and Addustour which publishes in Arabic and appears in Jordan. Following Palt...
Impoliteness as a natural phenomenon is observed in many face-to-face encounters. It is employed to cause offense and attack the face of the hearer and sometimes over-hearers. One of the researchers who was working at the University of Jordan Hospital noticed that patients and/or their relatives use verbal and nonverbal impolite behaviour when addr...
This study aims to explore the use of disagreement strategies in two Arabic dialects: Jordanian and Algerian Arabic. It also investigates the effect of social status on the choice of disagreement strategies adopting Muntigl and Turnbull's (1998) taxonomy. To achieve these objectives, 40 participants (20 Jordanians and 20 Algerians) were randomly re...
This study aims to explore the use of disagreement strategies in two Arabic dialects: Jordanian and Algerian Arabic. It also investigates the effect of social status on the choice of disagreement strategies adopting Muntigl and Turnbull's (1998) taxonomy. To achieve these objectives, 40 participants (20 Jordanians and 20 Algerians) were randomly re...
The 2017 Riyadh Summit is one of the events that various media outlets densely covered. Drawing upon Van Dijk [53] Ideological Square, this study aims at identifying the in-group and out-group in ten pro-government Arab newspapers and investigating the discursive sub-strategies that were utilized in the representation of “us” and “them.” The findin...
This study explores the use of textual and interpersonal metadiscourse markers in political discourse and their role in persuasion. To this end, the study examines four political speeches delivered by Hillary Clinton, an American politician. The speeches were retrieved from YouTube, transcribed and analysed following Dafouz-Milne’s (2008) model of...
This study is, largely, a systematic review that identifies and synthesizes research data from different resources with the aim of drawing conclusions about the effect of co-speech gestures on learning a foreign language (FL). We used PubMed and PubMed Central as the databases for our search; we narrowed the search mainly to experimental psychology...
Using a mixed-method approach, this study examines the pragmatic functions of the discourse marker walak and its variants in Spoken Jordanian Arabic. It also explores the differences in the use of this discourse marker according to the speakers’ gender. The data was collected from a sample of 200 native speakers of Jordanian Arabic, using informal...
This study examines verbal humor in the Jordanian stand-up comedy show N2O. It identifies and analyzes how conversational maxims are flouted to create humor. To achieve this aim, 60 seven-minute episodes were taken from the channel of the show. The study showed that comedians flouted the maxims of quantity, quality, relevance and manner to create h...
This study reports the findings of a study on strategies of refusal used in Algerian Spoken Arabic (ASA) in response to offers. The study included 30 native Algerians (15 males and 15 females) enrolled at the University of Mohammed Seddik Ben Yahia, Jijel, Algeria. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researchers used an Oral Discourse Compl...
This study explores the use and functions of discourse markers (DMs) in the narrative essays of 85 Jordanian high school students adopting Frasers's (2006) framework. The results show that the most frequently used DMs were elaborative (55.1%), followed by temporal (31.4%), inferential (9.3%) and contrastive (4%) respectively. Regarding the function...
This study aims to explore the use of hedging devices by female Saudi students in academic writing by analyzing the frequency, reasons for, and nature of their hedging devices choices in argumentative essays. To this end, sixty-four samples of writings by female Saudi EFL university students of King Saud University were thoroughly analyzed in light...
This study aims to examine the strategies of persuasion used in American-cuisine restaurant menus in Jordan. It seeks to identify the power of language used by advertisers in order to attract and persuade their patrons. It mainly investigates persuasive strategies used in 26 American cuisine restaurant menus by adopting Aristotle's framework in ass...
Stance is a feature of academic writing that refers to how writers interact and engage with their readers by means of linguistic devices. This study focuses on the grammatical devices—and semantic distinctions thereof—that are employed by academic writers of English to express stance in research article abstracts in the areas of applied linguistics...
The present study aims to investigate female Disney characters' linguistic features in the 1990's. It studies sexist ideologies manifested through these characters' language. The sample consists of three Disney animated movies from the 1990's: Mulan, Beauty and the Beast and Pocahontas. The frameworks adopted to study female Disney characters' lang...
The present study seeks to delve into the intricacies of multimodal discourse analysis with regard to violence against women awareness campaign posters. To this end, a study is conducted on English posters. In this respect, the different semiotic modes adopted in English posters were put under scrutiny. Similarly, the study attempts to explore how...
Several studies examined the effect of gender, culture and context on the use of impoliteness strategies. The present study examined the gender and cultural differences and similarities in the language used in Jordanian and American TV sitcoms. The researchers analysed 30 episodes from the Jordanian TV sitcom "dʒaltˤah/ /جلطةseason 1" and 20 epis...
This study is an attempt to examine how France 24 and Al-Jazeera represented the Algerian Hirak movement. The study at hand draws on Fairclough’s (1995) three-dimensional framework and Van Dijk’s ideological square to compare and contrast the depiction of both media outlets at the textual and discursive levels. The sample consisted of 24 articles t...
This study examines the apology strategies found in the speech of well-educated native Ammani Arabic speakers (Jordanian Arabic speakers) and native Mancunian English speakers (British English speakers). The study also attempts to examine Brown and Levinson's view which assumes that strategies of politeness are universal across all cultures. A disc...
The present study seeks to delve into the intricacies of feedback strategies adopted by male and female Jordanian EFL postgraduate university instructors when responding to their students’ assignment submissions and inquiries via asynchronous communication mode, namely email communication, to see if there are any significant differences in their us...
The present paper examines the metaphorical and metonymical conceptualizations of the heart in Jordanian Arabic (JA) within the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory developed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980). The main aim is to explore how the human heart is conceptualized in JA, and to test the applicability of the different general cognitive mecha...
The present study seeks to explore the link between persuasion and advertising by examining the persuasive appeals used by telecommunication companies in Jordanian and Algerian television commercials. To this end, 12 television advertisements (six from Jordan and six from Algeria) were randomly selected from YouTube. The data were analysed based on...
Many internet users actively participate and share their views using social networks. Their behavior is sometimes unpredictable; it could be polite or impolite. This study aims to investigate impoliteness in the comment section in the Al-Jazeera Arabic news website to uncover the types of impolite acts, which commenters engage in online and expose...
![Fig. 1. Various Types of Mobile Devices [4]](profile/Mohammed-Abugohar/publication/336122047/figure/fig1/AS:808187628371968@1569698354650/arious-Types-of-Mobile-Devices-4_Q320.jpg)
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The outcomes of modern technology have turned real-world interaction into a virtual community, then into a cloud one. These giant leaps aided by the excitement created by the possibilities inherent in learning through handheld technologies made using mobile devices in English language teaching (ELT) indispensable. This paper is aimed to deeply over...
Abstract. This research paper analysed the positive politeness strategies used by Oprah
Winfrey and her guests in the Oprah Winfrey Talk Show. By analysing four full interviews
for each group (African-Americans and Caucasians), the study also aimed to investigate
the effect of the speaker’s ethnic background on the use of positive politeness strate...
This study aims to investigate and identify the connotative equivalence of taboo words in American hip hop/musical movies and their Arabic correspondence in the subtitle/Audiovisual Translation (AVT). The sample of this study consists of English subtitles and their Arabic fansubs of three of the most profane American hip hop movies: 8 Mile, Straigh...
This research paper analysed the positive politeness strategies used by Oprah Winfrey and her guests in Oprah Winfrey Talk Show. By analysing four full interviews for each group (African-Americans and Caucasians), the study also aimed to investigate the effect of the speaker’s ethnic background on the use of positive politeness strategies in Oprah...
This study aims at finding out gender differences in impoliteness strategies made by African American characters in the TV series 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' to enact humor. The researchers analyzed 151 impolite utterances from Season 1 from 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air', which consisted of 25 episodes. The findings support previous research that...
This study draws on a case study of four Arabic-speaking EFL teachers in two Jordanian schools, and their code switching between the first language (L1) and the second language (L2) over the course of eight foreign language classes, where English was the L2 and Arabic was the L1 of the learners. It analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively the type...
This paper reports on the findings of a study that explored the different persuasive appeals used in English and Arabic TV advertisements related to marketing electronics, particularly televisions, air conditioners and cameras. A total of six TV advertisements (3 Arabic and 3 English) were randomly selected from YouTube. The analysis suggests that...
This study examines the effect of communication strategy instruction on EFL students' oral communicative ability and their strategic competence. In a 14-week English as a Foreign Language (EFL) course (English Use II) based on Communicative Language Teaching approach, 80 learners were divided into two groups. The strategy training group ([Formula:...
This study seeks to examine the existence of Instant Messaging language phenomenon among female teenagers in some Jordanian private schools and its influence on their learning experience, mainly literacy. It also raises questions about the characteristics of textese as well as teachers' attitude towards their students’ use of SMS language in their...
This paper reports on the findings of a study that aimed to identify the linguistic items which act as hedges in the speeches of King Abdullah II of Jordan, as well as to examine the pragmatic functions of these devices. Twenty-five political speeches of King Abdullah II, randomly selected from the official website of King Abdullah (see Appendix),...
taxonomy. The study revealed that the most frequently used hedging device in King Abdullah's speech is modal auxiliaries, and the most frequently used hedging device subcategory is the modal auxiliary "can". The findings suggest that these hedging devices fulfil several pragmatic functions. These findings contribute to understanding that speaking a...
A systematic assessment of the impact of public access to computers and the Internet, with findings from developing countries in South America, Asia, and Africa.
Shared public access to computers and the Internet in developing countries is often hailed as an effective, low-cost way to share the benefits of digital technology. Yet research on the ec...
This study analyzes users’ perception of the impact of Internet cafés on three aspects of their
lives: social networking, education and learning, and income and employment. The study is
based on a sample of 336 Internet café users and twenty-four operators in Amman, Jordan.
Internet café users strongly perceive that these venues have improved their...
This study investigates the use of three major categories of DMs by 40 male Saudi EFL teachers in their English classrooms, viz., additive, causative, and adversative DMs. The analysis revealed that the participant teachers used the three major DM categories; however, the additive discourse markers recorded the highest mean scores. The findings als...
Purpose
– The study aims to investigate how and why hedges are used in nursing and education academic research articles and find out whether there are differences between the two disciplines in using hedges and their subcategories.
Design/methodology/approach
– The realization of hedges in 50 academic articles representing both disciplines, namely...
This study investigates citation practices among native and nonnative English writers. Five Master EFL theses written by Arab EFL learners were compared to 5 Master EFL theses written by native speakers of English. Adopting Swales’ (1990) categorization, the employed citation patterns were analyzed and categorized into two types: integral and non-i...
This study examines how EFL learners in the non-English speaking communities (Jordan and Germany) handle communication in story-retelling, and uncovers the repair strategies, which they deploy in order to overcome communication breakdowns and pass comprehensible messages to their interlocutors. The study also analyzes factors governing the EFL lear...
This study explored the discourse generated by English as a foreign language (EFL) learners using synchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) as an approach to help English language learners to create social interaction in the classroom. It investigated the impact of synchronous CMC mode on the quantity of total words, lexical range and disco...
Since repetition is a natural phenomenon used to perform various functions in interactional discourse, adopting a pragmatic analysis to the discourse of Dr. Phil and his guests on Dr. Phil's TV show, this study attempted to explore the pragmatic functions of such repetitions as used by English native speakers. The data were gathered from conversati...
This paper investigates euphemism strategies used in Saudi Arabic and English. It shows that there are some similarities and differences, which can be attributed to cultural and religious beliefs and values. The strategies of euphemism found in the Saudi responses are ‘part-for-whole’, ‘overstatement’, ‘understatement’, ‘deletion’, ‘metaphor’, ‘gen...
A scaffolding instruction program, which lasted for 9 weeks, was implemented to find out its impact on 11<sup>th</sup> grade Jordanian EFL learners' reading comprehension skills. Using scaffolding instruction, the experimental group was taught three units selected from the participants' English textbook, while the control group was taught the same...
According to Nord's approach (1991) strategic competence is believed to be crucial in dealing with translation problems. It plays an important role as a regulating mechanism, compensating for deficiencies in the other sub-competencies and contributes towards solving the problems that arise. Nord also argues that there is a need for further research...
This paper investigates the compensatory strategies (CpSs) used in the oral discourse of second year students studying Arabic as a second language (ASL) in the Arabic Language Institute at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The study examined the various strategies used by a sample of 24 male learners who were all high school graduates f...
This study investigated the pragmatic elements in Saudi female graduate students’ authentic e-mail messages written in English to their male professors. Following Biesenbach-Lucas (2005), 99 e-mail messages sent by 9 female students to their two male professors during the academic year 2005-2006 were analyzed for communication topics (facilitative,...
The Relationship Between Phonological Awareness and Word Reading
This study investigates the effect of phonological awareness instruction on the development of word-reading ability for EFL first-graders in a Jordanian state school. Based on Chard and Dickson's (1999) phonological awareness hierarchy, a phonological awareness training program was de...
The spread of Arabic has not received due attention in modern sociolinguistic studies
till after the events of September 11 in the US. This paper examines the spread of
Arabic from a historical and a linguistic perspective, showing very briefly how Arabic
moved with the Islamic conquest outside the Arabian Peninsula supplanting older
imperial a...
This paper presents results from two experiments which used computer-based grammar and teacher-driven grammar (chalk and talk) instructional methods. Each method involves teaching verb tenses using two deductive approaches (a) the initial rule-oriented approach (involves initial presentation of explicit rules followed by illustrative examples) and...
This study investigated the pragmatic elements in Saudi female graduate students' authentic e-mail messages written in English to their male professors. Following Biesenbach-Lucas (2005), 99 e-mail messages sent by 9 female students to their two male professors during the academic year 2005-2006 were analyzed for communication topics (facilitative,...
Communication strategies (CSs) are important in helping learners to communicate successfully when they are faced with a production problem due to their lack of linguistic knowledge. This paper aims to support the importance of developing second language learners' strategic competence and making communication strategies part of an ELT syllabus. This...
The major portion of this paper is devoted to presenting the communication problems of Arab learners of English in general, and the problems specific to Arab World University English language majors/graduates. Then, it discusses the notion of communicative competence, and defines strategic competence. It also briefly deals with the various definiti...
This article reports on empirical research into the relationship between L2 learners' target language proficiency/task type and their ability to transmit comprehensible messages to their listeners. In order to test the assumption that even low-level English learners can transmit comprehensible messages despite their limited linguistic resources by...
Discusses the notion of communicative competence and more specifically, strategic competence. Examines problems Arab learners of English face and looks at problems specific to Arab World University (Jordan) English language majors. Concludes with the pedagogical implications of communicative strategy use. (Author/VWL)
This paper examines trends in second language communication strategies (CSs), explaining that when language learners concentrate on form or accuracy, they encounter problems, and when they recognize the mismatch between their linguistic resources and communicative intentions, they try to solve these problems using CSs (e.g., appeals for help, liter...
This thesis is a qualitative study of the strategic competence of Arab English majors at Yarmouk University in Jordan. Its aim is to fill the gap found in communication strategy (CS) research, which has at present little relevance to the Jordanian situation. Its main aim is to determine which communication strategies (CSs) are used by English major...
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Several teaching positions are available at the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Jordan
Joining Date: January 2015 or September 2015.
Please forward your CV, and qualifications to: ghaleb.rababah@ju.edu.jo
Description of host institution:
The University of Jordan is often labeled 'the mother university' as it was first to be established in the country and that was in 1962. It is a public four year institution with about 45,000 students, 1400 faculty members, 19 colleges, and 11 institutes and centers. The Faculty of Foreign Languages is a new college that branched in 2008 off the eldest college, the Faculty of Arts. It has a student population of more than 4,000 students, fourteen percent of whom are males. It teaches 14 European and Asian languages.
The Department of Linguistics was established in 1997 and it offers one B.A. program in Applied English and will soon offer an M.A. in Language, Culture, and Communication. Applied English is a very modern ESP program which is characterized by a practical and applied approach to linguistic knowledge; although it does not ignore theory completely; practice takes precedence and arches over the entire program. Hence, it focuses on empowering students with communicative English language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing without the need for meta-language. At the same time, it qualifies its graduates for the job market in such areas as tourism, hotels, media, business, law, health, and diplomacy.
Graduates of Applied English worked in diplomacy, media, tourism, law, public relations, health, translation, and education. Their jobs were in private and public, local and international, and profit and non-profit organizations.
