Ivan Murad

University of Zakho | UoZ · Department of English

Throughout the last two or three decades, group work has become a part that cannot be separated from other classroom activities. This research study identifies the different opinions of Kurdish students concerning the advantages and disadvantages of group work in the classroom. The research was conducted on 100 Kurdish university students who had a...

This paper aims at investigating the impact of online teaching on the process of English language learning. Online teaching nowadays has been an important component in education around the world. That is to say, technology integration is increasingly being used in the process of teaching and learning languages. There is a considerable number of stu...

This is a small scale piece of research that has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the speaking teaching materials that are used in a particular language organization in Kurdistan region/Iraq. The participants of the study were (20) students enrolled in the organization and their practitioner. This study collected a mixture of qualita...

The current study investigates Kurdish students’ attitudes towards the use of films in teaching literary works at universities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The study also highlights whether using films in teaching literary works is beneficial or not and what challenges are faced by them. The data were collected by using questionnaires and int...

The current study investigates Kurdish students' attitudes towards the use of films in teaching literary works at universities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The study also highlights whether using films in teaching literary works is beneficial or not and what challenges are faced by them. The data were collected by using questionnaires and inter...

This paper aims at investigating experimentally the effect of applying the Lexical Approach (henceforth LA) on the achievement of third-year University students of English in the cause and effect essay writing. It examines theoretically and practically the LA and the notion of lexical units in English along with explaining some other relevant point...

It was argued that those learning the language while mingling with the community are better learners than those learning in the academic setting where they only opt to use the academic language. The current small scale study investigates the influence of the setting on two BahdiniKurdish learners of English living in the UK in two different context...

This is a small-scale study that aims to investigate Zakho city English teachers' awareness of the teaching methods that should be used in teaching Sunrise Series. The current study collected both qualitative and quantitative data utilising different data collection methods. The participants of the study were 38 teachers from Zakho city teaching in...

This paper is conducted at the University of Zakho, department of English language studies in (2013-2014). It investigates Kurdish learners' characteristics and their effects on the process of their second language learning. The data of the current study was collected throughout a methodological triangulation utilizing a questionnaire which consist...

This study is conducted to investigate the reading strategies used by students at University of Zakho/English department. This paper has been conducted through designing a questionnaire out of 13 questions which was sent out to 100 participants from a total number of 240 students from different levels at English department. Along with that, semi-st...