Hala Salih Mohammed Nur

• PhD/ Associate Professor
• Professor (Associate) at University of Khartoum

The syllabus design for ESP should account for specific learners’ and industry needs regarding language skills, aspects and functions. Furthermore, the process should consider the globally trending challenges to prepare learners for their prospective jobs. In this regard, UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are comprehensive agenda that shapes...

Purpose The purpose of the paper is to report the findings of a synthesis of literature reviews and stakeholder interviews conducted in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The synthesis provides an overview of instructional leadership policy and practice in these six countries. Design/methodology/approach This paper report...

This paper sheds light on E. M. Forster’s attack against British imperialism in colonial India. It argues that acquiring an official position in the imperialistic administration makes Anglo-Indians so poignant that they start making racial prejudgments about the Indians. This attitude, of course, leads to damage the possibility of establishing frie...

وتظهر الواقعية في كافة جوانب الحياة لتسليط الضوء على كافة قضايا الإنسان بطرق سلبية وإيجابية كما تنعكس في الحياة الواقعية. يعتبر الأدب بمثابة مرآة لجميع جوانب الحياة. ويتعامل مع الواقعية باعتبارها حركة تجسد هذه السمات. فهو يعكس المشاكل العملية، ويقوي الجوانب الأخلاقية، ويدعو أيضا إلى إصلاح المجتمع. يعد آرثر هايلي أحد الروائيين المعاصرين الذين جسدوا...

In spite of the long period of time that has elapsed since monster first appeared in English and Arabic literature, monsters still have both remarkable and effective roles in their literary texts. The roles of monster that have been created over the centuries by their writers are an indicative of the fears and the needs of societies for these monst...

This research article aims to mirror the political symbolism and its significance in George Orwell writings with reference to “Animal Farm” and “Nineteen Eighty Four”. It is an attempt to depict the political ideologies of Orwell’s writings in the abovementioned novels, his message and legitimate fears and warning for future generations against the...

The aim of this paper is mainly focused through the quotation ‘sins of the father are visited upon the son’ the researchers used the critical analytical method to highlight the theme of heredity in Ibsen selected plays. The analysis of the theme showed that the heredity is not only portrayed in the plays but it has traces from his personal life. Th...

The need to include culture in foreign and second language teaching is now a well-known view in the field of applied linguistics. This paper attempts to evaluate the cultural content of two textbooks widely used in Sudan from the “Link Up” series. The model used for evaluation is Kawano’s (1987) form which was based on Joiner’s (1974) form for eval...

This study aimed at investigating the English language needs of teaching assistants at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. The study focused on identifying the teaching assistants’ purposes for learning English, and discovering the most important skills, language areas, and academic sub-skills they needed. The study also attempted to determine the t...

This paper sheds light on E. M. Forster's attack against British imperialism in colonial India. It argues that acquiring an official position in the imperialistic administration makes Anglo-Indians so poignant that they start making racial prejudgments about the Indians. This attitude, of course, leads to damage the possibility of establishing frie...

The aim of this study is to investigate the attitudes of Sudanese students towards classroom interaction patterns which are essential in the learning process of English language. In Sudan most of the schools use the Grammar Translation Method to teach English language and students are not given the opportunity for authentic language communication....

This study aims to evaluate the Certificate of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (CTEFL) programme provided by the Postgraduate Unit, English Language Institute, University of Khartoum, by identifying the students? opinion on the four modules, discovering the students? perception of the teaching, and their own performance. In addition, it trie...

Reading, whether in academic or non-academic settings, is one of the most important skills we need in this fast-moving world, together with an ability to access information quickly and intelligently. In Sudan, following over 20 years of Arabicization, there was a great demand for university staff to master reading in English since they needed to re...

Sudan as an ex-colony has been using English as a medium of instruction in all institutions of education. But since 1964 Sudan has gone through a long journey of Arabicisation starting from primary to secondary schools. Throughout this journey English language teaching has suffered and its status has changed from being a medium of instruction to be...

The need for English language in Sudan is increasing rapidly for a variety of reasons, despite the fact that there is a severe decline of the students' standards of English. This study tries to locate the problems that confront the learning and teaching of English language at University of Khartoum A questionnaire was distributed to 303 second year...

The uses of parallelism in Shakespearean History and Roman plays.