Ibtehal M. Aburezeq

Al Ain University

The research examines the effects of blended learning (BL) on English education in Saudi Arabian higher education and its potential future developments in the context of increasing integration of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The study emphasizes the importance of measuring students' actual outcomes, access to learning opportun...

This study aimed to qualitatively investigate the factors that influence teachers' behavioral intention to use mobile technology (BIU) for language teaching employing the original technology acceptance model (TAM) as a framework. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 28 Arabic and English teachers. The study results revealed that there wer...

This study aimed to investigate the impact of the participatory video on the development of the Arabic speaking skills of 9th-grade students. It also aimed to identify students’ attitudes towards the participatory video as an instructional tool. A total of 136 male and female students participated in the study who were selected by using the conveni...

This study examined pre-service teachers' expertise, perceptions and integration of cloud applications in teaching of Arabic and English. Questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were used as data collection methods. The findings of the study specified that pre-service teachers did not own sufficient expertise for effective integration of clou...

The current study aimed at investigating the impact of blogs on the development of 9th grade students’ written composition skills. The study sample consisted of (147) male and female students selected by using the convenience sampling method from two schools in Amman, Jordan. Then, the students were distributed randomly into a control group (a male...

The present study aimed to examine the impact of the flipped classroom on the development of the Arabic speaking skills of the seventh-grade students. In addition, the study sought to examine students’ perceptions of learning via the flipped classroom. The sample consisted of 148 students who were chosen by using the convenience sampling method and...

The key aim of this study is to provide an overview of students' and instructors' attitudes and perceptions towards the potential benefits and challenges of summative e-assessment for their writing courses at a UAE university. A mixed method of quantitative and qualitative analysis is used. The findings of the study revealed that a majority of stud...

Teaching children with disabilities in the regular classrooms can be influenced by the teachers’ attitudes towards these children and their perception of their self-efficacy in teaching them. This study examined the regular classroom teachers’ perceived sense of teaching self-efficacy in relation to their gender and attitudes towards these children...

Accidents on roads are primarily caused by attention diversion. Recently, smart phones and availability of internet has made the mobile-phones’ usage a biggest cause of diversion of drivers’ attention. Lately, cell phones became more dangerous than alcohol consumption while driving. The problem is as critical in the UAE as everywhere else in the wo...

This study examined pre-service teachers' expertise, perceptions and integration of cloud applications in teaching of Arabic and English. Questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were used as data collection methods. The findings of the study specified that pre-service teachers did not own sufficient expertise for effective integration of clou...

This study was designed to examine pre-service teachers' proficiency, use, and their perceptions of the benefits and barriers to the use of Google Apps to support their teaching and learning practices. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used. The findings showed that almost two-thirds (63%) of participants were advanced or expert users of Go...

This study had a two-fold aim; (i) to investigate the impact of Google Docs on enhancing four types of collaboration, and (ii) to identify the factors limiting student collaboration via Google Docs. Data collected through questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. The findings revealed that Google Docs is a valuable application to promote stude...

This study had three primary aims; (i) to explore pre-service Arabic language teachers’ perceptions of using the blog as a learning tool, (ii) to identify the defects of collaborating via the blog, and (iii) to modify the use of blogs to facilitate more effective learning. Semi-structured interviews with 14 pre-service teachers in addition to analy...

A significant number of individuals all over the world experience various types of developmental disabilities. Families of these individuals are likely to be impacted by these disabilities in different ways. This research examines the UAE parents' adaptation and stress to the developmental disabilities that their children have as well as examines t...

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of teachers of Arabic language in Jordan about the supervision they receive. Two major questions were explored. They were (1) What are the perspectives of Jordanian Arabic language teachers about the roles and styles of educational supervision?...