Mohammed Nasser Alhuqbani

• Professor
• Faculty member at IMSIU

This paper examined the effect of gender and language proficiency on the translation and judgments of ten contrastive discourse markers: but, however, nevertheless, instead, rather, in contrast, on the other hand, yet, still, on the contrary. The participants were 77 Saudi undergraduate males and females majoring in English and Translation. They we...

This study aimed to give a full account of discourse marker use in nonnative academic discourse. This study is a qualitative and quantitative investigation of discourse markers used in a corpus of 14 dissertations in applied linguistics from a Saudi university that uncovers the use patterns and DM combinations in abstracts, discussions, and conclus...

A textbook designed to teach English for police officers. It has 10 units with exercise for practice as well as security and police terminology.

This study evaluated the teaching of English to Saudi police cadets at King Fahd Security College in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The participants included three groups of stakeholders: six English teachers, sixteen former police cadets and 122 current police cades. Data collection instruments included a set of three short questionnaires and observation....

This study investigated the English language needs, motivations and attitudes of a random sample of 223 police cadets studying at King Fahd Security College in Saudi Arabia. The analysis of the questionnaire results showed that only cadets with degrees in humanities received English instructions. The cadets selected speaking and listening as the mo...

Within the theory and practice of English for Specific Purposes, this study attempted to compare and contrast the teaching of English to police cadets in police colleges and academies in the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf. The participant police colleges were King Fahd Security College in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait Police College, Qa...

This paper attempted to compare and contrast the discourse functions of the English primary contrastive discourse marker but with its equivalent in Standard Arabic lakin. A judgment test of forty-eight examples was presented to 5 Arabic-English speaking informants and 5 English native informants. The results showed that, like but in English, lakin...

Analysis of abstracts has seldom been involved in disciplines and journals where Arabic is used. Hence, this study examined the rhetorical structures of abstracts across four unrelated disciplines in Arabic: law, linguistics, medicine and police. The corpus consisted of 40 Arabic abstracts, with 10 abstracts from each discipline. The data was analy...

Abundant research has been devoted to the study of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in various academic settings, and yet no studies have been conducted to investigate the academic English use in military settings, thus making the undertaking of this study significant. This paper investigated the English academic needs of 42 officers working at...

This study examined the Arabic-English speakers' acquisition rate of certain contrastive discourse markers (CDMs): but, however, nevertheless, despite that/this, in contrast, instead, on the contrary, and on the other hand. The subjects were 26 Arabic-English speakers and 25 English native speakers. They were given a judgment test consisting of 30...

Previous studies in second and foreign language contexts concluded that motivation and positive attitudes contribute to successful language learning. This study attempted to replicate these studies in a new context, namely ESP. It examined the motivational and attitudinal variables involved in the learning of English by police officers in Saudi Ara...