Mohammad Alaghawat

University of Jordan | UJ · Department of European Languages

This paper explores the use of three words used for a female spouse in the Holy Quran: wife, woman and companion. Specifically, it seeks to find if there is a semantic difference between these three terms and the characteristics that determine their classification. The data were collected from all the Quranic verses in which these terms appear. The...

This paper examines the comprehension of English compound nouns by sixty Arabic-speaking EFL learners majoring in English at the University of Jordan, Amman. It explores the problems that these learners may encounter in understanding certain types of compounds, namely, subordinative, attributive and coordinative, based on the notions of endocentric...

This article aims to examine the challenges facing secondary school teachers and students in English vocabulary online classes in Amman, Jordan. It also aims to propose the most effective ways to overcome the encountered challenges. To this end, qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with thirty teachers and twenty students to unders...

The study aimed to investigate the reality of distance learning at the University of Jordan in the setting of Covid-19 pandemic from the students’ point of view. The study relied on the descriptive analytical approach, and used questionnaire, which consisted of 60 items, as its study tool to achieve the objectives of the study. The stability of the...

Given that language change is a naturally occurring process necessary for the survival of languages, what language change process(es) may explain the affixes found in Spanish and Arabic that do not fit the language paradigm for affixes? This study focuses on the triggering factor for language borrowing in Spanish and Arabic, particularly focusing o...

Abstract The studies that have tackled the matter of colours in Arabic and Spanish phraseology are very scarce; therefore, research into this matter is very relevant. This research work deals with the symbolical and axiological presence of colours white and black in Arabic and Spanish phraseology. To this end, we first suggest a theoretical glance...