Himdad A. Muhammad

• Prof.Dr
• Professor at Salahaddin University-Erbil

The study objectives are: 1. Exploring the current status of universal design in university EFL context in Kurdistan Region 2.Assessing universal design in university EFL context 3.Proposing improvement insights regarding Universal design in university EFL context

The study aims at -Identifying the impact of project-based learning on EFL students’ intercultural competence. -Showing EFL students perception on Project-based learning. -Proposing Project-based learning activities to promote EFL students intercultural competence.

The study aims at -Identifying the factors that lead to linguistic insecurity in Kurdish society. -Providing a socio-linguistic analysis for the linguistic insecurity instances and indications found in people speech. -Proposing practical solutions for overcoming linguistic insecurity cases.

This study aims at: 1. Finding out the translation strategies utilized when it comes to the translation of humorous utterances. 2. Identifying the errors in translating humor in movie subtitles from English into Kurdish. 3. Do the same types of humor exist in both languages? 4. Presenting solutions for dealing with humor translation in movie subtit...

Metadiscourse markers are essential features of academic writing used to achieve certain discoursal purposes, such as holding the text together, marking the writer's stances, and interacting with the audience. Different types of metadiscourse are employed to perform various functions in a given text, but they are mainly divided into two major categ...

Due to its ubiquity in our daily life, metaphor has been interlinked with various study fields. Nonetheless, the procedure to linguistic metaphor identification should be equally implemented in all these different areas. Such a procedure, termed Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP), was designed by a number of scholars in 2007 and was revisited...

This paper provides a linguistic analysis of conceptual metaphors in English and Kurdish political speeches. Simply put, metaphor is understanding something in terms of another, to find correspondence between two different semantic domains. The data is collected from presidential speeches given between the years 2005 to 2022. In total, there are 16...

Academic writing is one of the most essential skills for university students’ success during and beyond their study. Successful academic writing requires having peculiar grammatical and lexical features. One of the best-known features of academic writing style is the use of academic words. In light of these facts, the current study has been conduct...

The current paper aims to examine the effect of Blended Learning on learners’ writing skills. Experts such as Jones and Sharma (2021) define Blended Learning as a method of education that enables the academic staff, including learners, to teach and learn through online platforms and traditional classes. The paper compares students’ written performa...

Technology has great effects on all the fields of science, including language teaching. Flipped Classroom Model, a relatively new method of teaching with strong ties with technology, has recently gained popularity and drew the attention of many educators. Several previous studies in various fields of science, including language teaching, show the e...

Colours are loaded with idiomatic and metaphorical associations in different languages and cultures. They do not only express colours themselves but they express feelings, emotions, and different notions of cultures and languages through idiomatic expressions. Moreover, investigation into colours and idiomaticity has been of interest to many schola...

Due to the polysemous and ambiguous nature of the emojis, translators encounter difficulties in rendering them into Kurdish. This paper is an attempt to find out the nature and the frequency of the problems related to emojis and suggest more appropriate ways for dealing with them when they are translated into Kurdish. The paper takes up a descripti...

Collocations are found in all fields of life and all languages. When it comes to translating collocations between two languages, certain difficulties arise. These difficulties could be due to various factors such as cultural, structural and/or linguistic differences. This paper aims at identifying the difficulties encountered by Kurdish translators...

Animal idioms are widespread in daily life; they have become inextricably linked to human existence and language. Additionally, they have acquired additional attributive and connotative meanings – which differ from one culture to another - in addition to their literal and lexical meanings. Animal idioms are not well-investigated, especially from a...

ئەم کتێبە لە زمانی ئینگلیزییەوە وەرگءڕدراوە بۆ سەر زمانی کوردی و پەرواێزی بۆ زیادکراوە و باس لە وانەی بەرەواژ دەکات هەر لە سەرەتای دروستبوونی بیرۆکەکە و لایەنی مێژوویی و هەنگاوەکانی و چۆنیەتی پەیڕەوکردنی.هەروەها باس لەو پسپۆڕی و بوارانە دەکات کە دەکرێت تێیاندا ئەو تەکنیکە بەکاربهێنرێت Flip Your Classroom Reach Every Student in Every Class Every D...

The paper aims at investigating translating commissive speech acts in movie subtitle from English into Kurdish. It attempts to identify the meaning loss, in other words deletion errors and then categorize them along with the illocutionary acts. The samples of the study are taken from the subtitle of the horror movie (Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud) which...

The term ‘social distancing’ has been widely used recently in various means of mass communication to encourage people to keep it as a way of preventing the spread of Covid-19 Coronavirus. In addition to studies in natural sciences, the term ‘social distancing’ could also be explored in various research areas in humanities, including pragmatics,...

This work focus on corpus linguistics as a new and contemporary tren in language studies.It also highlights different views on whether corpus linguistics is a method or a theory by itself. Definitions, types of the corpus , the salient feature of a good corpus and steps of creating a reliable corpus are tackled in this work. In addition, the areas...

This study is an attempt to investigate pronunciation material and tasks and/or activities along with teaching methods in Sunrise 7-9 series adopted by the ministry of education in KRG to be taught in basic schools all over Kurdistan region of Iraq. The rationale of the study is the obvious deficiency of basic school students’ performance, more spe...

The presentation talks about the main focus of 21st-century teaching and learning. Then, it provides tips for teaching and techniques that can best serve the learners of the 21st century.

Idioms and idiomatic expressions are a very important part of every language and each language has its own particular idiomatic expressions. Idioms are of different types. Fruit/Food idioms are one of these sorts which is a very common phenomenon in English language. This study aims to examine the notion of idiomaticity and analyse the syntactic pr...

The current study is designed to investigate selected linguistic errors made by MA holders in the final versions of the MA theses. The corpus-based approach is implemented, which is one of the widely used recent approaches in linguistics. The existence of linguistic errors in the final versions of MA theses in the major of English language and ling...

It is usual for the second language learners to make spelling errors in writing, as many pointed out this issue worldwide. On the other hand, advanced speakers of a second language are supposed to make few or no errors of this type in second language writing productions, especially, in academic writings such as master theses. This is not always tru...

This study aims at assessing the impact of using technology (namely, Praat software) on teaching English stress and intonation to Salahaddin university students who are learning English as a foreign language in the English departments. The sample of the study consisted of 100 second year students who are studying English language at Salahaddin Univ...

The study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of pronunciation learning strategies (in favor of Covert Rehearsal Model) in helping Kurdish EFL learners to acquire accuracy in English pronunciation and detecting the most frequently used strategy types and strategy group by the learners. A total of 50 Kurdish EFL students of Salahaddin Universit...

Teaching stress and intonation frim Students' perspective Data collection tool:questionnaire

Supra-segmental features, particularly stress and intonation, are crucial aspects of pronunciation. Teaching and learning these features are usually not easy for teachers and for learners at the same time. This paper aims at showing students’ views on teaching stress and intonation in terms of teaching setting, teaching methods and teaching materia...

This study aims at assessing the impact of using technology ( namely, Praat software) on teaching English stress and intonation to Salahaddin university students who are learning English as a foreign language in the English departments. The sample of the study consisted of 100 second year students who are studying English language at Salahaddin Uni...

Colour terms are very widely used in everyday life in such a way that it has become an inseparable part of human life and language. This common use of colour terms has in turn led to being loaded with extra attributive and connotative meanings in addition to their literal and lexical meanings. The extra meanings of colour terms vary from a culture...

The present study investigates the nature and causes of semantic loss occurring in translations of selected movie subtitles from English into Kurdish. Previous research showed that the losses resulted mainly from the lack of equivalence between the source text ( English ) and the target language (Sorani Kurdish) . These losses are usually attribute...

The study focuses on the structure of tenseless clausal constructions in English.The main functions of such constructions are presented with ample examples.

The presentation focuses on what to publish , what is publishable , where to publish and how to publish papers in academic journals.Another point is the steps and stages of publication. Challenges and common rejection reasons and how do save rejected papers. Tips and instructions for researchers before submitting their papers for publication.

This was a two day workshop presentation for university professors , employees and students.The focus was on the triggers and barriers of creative thinking, along with some recommendations.

This study deals with the problems of passivization that third year students of English departments at the college level face. It is an attempt to identify the difficult areas and suggest remedial steps to overcome them. The population of the study is third year college students of the English departments of College of Languages and College of Basi...

This session shares experience of obtaining and implementing a highly successful University Linkages Program between the University of Cincinnati, USA and Salahaddin University, Kurdistan, Iraq. The authors will reflect on practices and make recommendations for setting and implementing achievable goals; negotiating and maintaining personal and inst...

The talk shows three strategies for dealing with large classes which is one of the problems at schools and universities in Iraq.

This was a show-case training course for teachers on English on Radio.It was based on British councils Teach English Radio programme that consists of 12 episodes each 15 minutes long.The original program is in English but it has been translated into Kurdish and broadcast on the university Radio.The topics are very helpful for English teachers becau...

This book is a collection of translated articles and studies related to the works of William Shakespeare in Kurdish.

This presentation presents body language in different cultures such as Kurdish , Arabic , Turkish and others to answer the question of whether it is universal or culture-specific.

This is a collection of English Short stories translated into Kurdish

Assimilation and Elision are the two phonological rules that vary from a language into another.The data of the study are derived from Hawler Dialect of Kurdish and Received Pronunciation of English.The study is descriptive and contrastive as it describes the assimilation and Elision of consonants in the varieties under scrutiny and contrasts them w...