Hussein Taha Assaggaf

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• PhD, Applied Linguistics
• Professor (Assistant) at Al Baha University

Portfolio has widely been used in various areas including second language writing. The purpose of this study is to investigate the views of students in using portfolio in teaching technical report-writing. The participants are computer science students enrolled in a report writing course at a university in Yemen. For data collection, the study used...

The teaching and learning of writing in L2 contexts is a complicated process that needs to be carefully investigated in order to obtain better outcomes. This study examines the teaching and learning in a writing course for students in the Yemeni context. In particular, the study deals with a writing course intended for preparing ESP students for wr...

In the teaching and learning of EFL writing, the Process Genre Approach (PGA), an integration of the process approach and the genre approach, has recently received much attention worldwide. This approach, however, has not been given enough focus in the Arab EFL context. The purpose of this paper is twofold: to report an implementation of a process...

Stance-marking of interaction is considered an important element for achieving effective communication in any academic discourse. Based on a descriptive-analytic approach, the present study addresses a twofold objective: a) analyzing and comparing stance-marking of interaction across disciplines in the research articles written by Arab non-native s...

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WhatsApp has significantly penetrated the various spheres of peoples' lives all over the world. The purpose of this study is to look at two aspects of WhatsApp text-based status notifications; namely, the most common discursive realizations and the major pragmatic themes. A sample of 846 status notifications for WhatsApp users' profiles was analyze...

محاضرة ألقيتها في كلية العلوم والآداب بجامعة الباحة حول أهم المواقع والتطبيقات المفيدة في تعلم اللغة الانجليزية

This study investigates two major issues in the teaching and learning of L2 writing in an ESP context at a tertiary institution in Yemen. The first issue is investigating the current practices of those involved in the teaching and learning of writing including administrators, instructors and students. The second issue is analysing the students’ nee...

Writing is a daunting task for most language learners. It becomes even more ‎complicated for ESL students who lack proper training. Other than the demand of ‎language proficiency, contextual realities play significant roles in pushing writing ‎development and writing instruction forward or otherwise. In other words, practices ‎employed by those tak...

In universities in Yemen where English is used as the medium, English language courses are ‎intended to accommodate students with English required for their discipline of study. With ‎English being the medium of instruction, where a great deal of writing is apparently required ‎for tests and assignments, a good command of English is obviously vital...