Idrees Zebari

• Ph.D. Applied Linguistics
• Assistant Professor at Akre University for Applied Sciences

The study examined the effectiveness of integrating active learning and gamification in classrooms as a new teaching methodology. Nowadays, teachers must equip themselves with new teaching methodologies to meet the goals of the student-centered approach requirements. As it is obvious many teachers here still stuck to the traditional method (teacher...

The study examined the effectiveness of integrating active learning and gamification in classrooms as a new teaching methodology. Nowadays, teachers must equip themselves with new teaching methodologies to meet the goals of the student-centered approach requirements. As it is obvious, many teachers here still stick to the traditional method (teache...

The current research aims at studying students’ attitudes toward the instructors’ use of translation in EFL classes at the university level. It hypothesizes that students have a positive attitude towards instructors’ use of such a means. The research is limited to a sample of 47 male and female 2ndyear students at the department of English language...

Applied linguistics is an umbrella term that covers a wide set of numerous areas of study connected by the focus on the language that is actually used. The emphasis in applied linguistics is on language users and the ways in which they use languages, contrary to theoretical linguistics which studies the language in the abstract not referring it to...

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The present study aims at assessing some practices for increasing the amount of time allocated to students in EFL classrooms. Recently, increasing the student talking time (hence, STT) has become the attention of lots of teachers and pedagogists. For the purpose of the study, a sample of 32 undergraduate students from the English Department, Facult...

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The present study investigates the effect of gender differences on the proxemic behaviors manifested by teachers in Bahdini EFL university classrooms, showing the learners' attitudes and opinions toward these behaviors. In reference to teaching, much uncertainty still exists about the state of proximity of teachers and students at university level...

The present study aims at assessing some practices for increasing the amount of time allocated to students in EFL classrooms. Recently, increasing the student talking time (hence, STT) has become the attention of lots of teachers and pedagogists. For the purpose of the study, a sample of 32 undergraduate students from the English Department, Facult...

Recent trends in teaching and/or learning foreign languages assert the learners' role in managing and carrying out the learning tasks assigned to them. Such trends further emphasise that foreign language teachers' role should be limited to that of a facilitator, a guide, and a friend rather than a lecturer who takes much of the class time by intera...

This paper aims at describing characteristics of the effective EFL teacher as perceived by Kurdish high school students. Participants consisted of 122 eleventh grade high school students in Duhok city in Iraqi Kurdistan region. Data were gathered by means of a questionnaire based on Park and Lee's (2006) classification of the characteristics of EFL...

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This paper aims at describing characteristics of the effective EFL teacher as perceived by Kurdish high school students. Participants consisted of 122 eleventh grade high school students in Duhok city in Iraqi Kurdistan region. Data were gathered by means of a questionnaire based on Park and Lee’s (2006) classification of the characteristics of EFL...

The present study aims at investigating the effectiveness of the English language perceived by instructors in Duhok University of Kurdistan Region-Iraq. For conducting this study, a sample of 30 male and female EFL teachers from five different faculties of the University of Duhok was selected. For data collection, a questionnaire of 20 statements i...

Resumen Este estudio intenta investigar las características lingüísticas de los estudiantes universitarios de EFL. Se administró un cuestionario a una muestra seleccionada al azar de 95 estudiantes de 2º y 2º de EFL en el Departamento de Lengua Inglesa, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad de Zakho, Región del Kurdistán, Iraq, durante el segundo tr...

The role of attitude as a crucial factor that impacts learners' management and performance of all language skills and activities has formed a focal point of study and interest on the part of the majority of scholars specialized in language teaching, learning, and acquisition. This is so because attitude' through its main three components, namely co...

The current research explores the relationship between the beliefs and the actual classroom practices of the Kurdish teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) regarding oral corrective feedback (OCF). To collect the data required, a questionnaire was administered to 8 Kurdish teachers of EFL of different academic qualifications from three dif...

The role of attitude as a crucial factor that impacts learners' management and performance of all language skills and activities has formed a focal point of study and interest on the part of the majority of scholars specialized in language teaching, learning, and acquisition. This is so because attitude' through its main three components, namely co...

The current research explores the relationship between the beliefs and the actual classroom practices of the Kurdish teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) regarding oral corrective feedback (OCF). To collect the data required, a questionnaire was administered to 8 Kurdish teachers of EFL of different academic qualifications from three dif...

Personality characteristics play a crucial role in the process of learning a foreign language (FL). The aim of the present paper is to specify the extent of the availability of personality characteristics, namely inhibition, self-esteem, willingness to communicate, risk-taking, anxiety, extroversion, and ambiguity tolerance, in first and second yea...

In Kurdistan region of Iraq, the phenomena of code-switching (henceforth CS), the use of two or more than two languages within the same conversation, happens most often between the two languages Arabic and Kurdish in the region of Kurdish inhabitant area. The present paper provides a sociolinguistic analysis of the CS phenomenon between Arabic and...