Nour Suleiman

• Master's in Linguistics
• Instructor at University of Jordan

This study explores the effectiveness of using an overhead projector to display guessing games and that of printed dictionaries in teaching collocations to Arabic-speaking English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. The study focused particularly on the acquisition of English grammatical collocations or, more precisely, colligations. A pre-test a...

According to teachers’ observations and the related literature review, foreign language speaking anxiety is a common phenomenon in English language classrooms that adversely affects the process of language learning. This study aims to contribute to the limited literature available on foreign language speaking anxiety in Jordan by exploring the poss...

Mobile technologies have increasingly become more and more widespread not only for making our daily lives easier and simpler, but also for their enormous potential in educational development. This case study examines university students’ satisfaction with and perceptions towards the use of blended learning and flipped classroom models in foreign la...

This study seeks to examine the existence of Instant Messaging language phenomenon among female teenagers in some Jordanian private schools and its influence on their learning experience, mainly literacy. It also raises questions about the characteristics of textese as well as teachers' attitude towards their students’ use of SMS language in their...

The main objective of this paper is to compare and contrast between two parallel texts. The Source Text (ST) is Diana Abu-Jaber’s novel "Crescent" (2003) and the Target Text (TT) is its Arabic rendition "Al-Hilal" translated by Fouad Srouji, a freelance translator and editor. Interlingual comparisons between the two equivalent texts were made at al...