Rashad Ahmed

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Miami University

The literacy landscape has evolved from a purely alphabetic mode to multimodality, integrating written texts with images, sound, space, and other elements for meaning. The multimodal approach is increasingly recognized for potentially enriching language learning. This study investigates the potential of multimodal pedagogy to foster inclusion and e...

A Presentation at the TEFL9 Conference on Innovation in English language education: Adapting pedagogies to meet modern challenges (15-16 November 2024) Organised through CETAPS, Colégio Almada Negreiros – Campus de Campolide – Nova University Lisbon 1099-085 Lisbon

This is a review of an edited volume of fourteen chapters on multimodal composing strategies for twenty-first-century writing consultations. With contributions from experts in the field, the book outlines the intricacies of multimodal composing strategies and offers an extensive analysis of multimodalities and multiliteracies the current century ha...

Drawing on the cognitive load theory and socio-semiotic approach, this conference paper touches on the role of multimodal texts on learners’ cognitive abilities insofar as reading comprehension is concerned. Based on the findings, the study calls for instituting multimodal composition to connect the linguistic and nonlinguistic (semiotic) dimension...

Prior studies in translanguaging have investigated its role in education from different perspectives to understand its efficiency, practicality, and how it promotes or challenges educational and societal aims in different multilingual contexts across the world. However, little attention has been paid to translanguaging in universities with a monoli...

Developing a writer’s voicea challenging task for second-language writers who are new not only to the culture but also to the values associated with the target language. This study aims at exploring the writer’s voice of Arabic-speaking learners who study English as a Second Language. The study mainly discusses the following question: Do L2 learner...

Developing a writer’s voice is a challenging task for second-language writers who are new not only to the culture but also to the values associated with the target language. This study aims at exploring the writer’s voice of Arabic-speaking learners who study English as a Second Language. The study mainly discusses the following question: Do L2 lea...

The multimodal approach to writing is now gaining acceptance in order to “escape the current paradigmatic view of composition studies” (Zawilski, 2011, p. 3). In multimodality, writing is not only pieces of prose but a combination of texts, images, audio, and videos (Leeuwen, 2011). This blend of words, audio, videos, voice messaging, still and mov...

The fact that students attend lectures with visual multimodal literacies calls for a multimodal turn in academic prose, to move beyond alphabetic literacy. The presentation will discuss writing as a combination of texts, images, audios, and videos. This blend of words, audio, videos, voice messaging, still and moving photos (animation), games, and...

A wiki is best defined as “a freely expandable collection of interlinked Web pages, a hypertext system for storing and modifying information—a database, where each page is easily editable by any user with a forms capable Web browser client” (Leuf & Cunningham, 2001, p. 14). Wikis are one of the simplest, most practical, and widespread technological...

With the current advancement of technology and its potential for better teaching and learning outcomes, this paper compares the use of peer review in face-to-face settings and online platforms. The study recruited 142 students and 20 instructors from an American public mid-southern university. Data were collected over two academic semesters and inc...

This study employed a mixed‐methods approach to examine peer review through the eyes of writing instructors and first‐year college students, including native and nonnative speakers of English. A total of 162 participants took part in the study, including 142 students and 20 full‐time writing instructors. The quantitative analysis involved multiple...

Social media sites have become an essential part of communication and interaction all over the globe. They have also offered numerous opportunities to language learners across geographic borders, paralleled by a new research interest in their potential. The present study joins this relatively new line of research as it adds data from a sample of Ye...

Enhancements and Limitations to ICT-Based Informal Language Learning: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the implementation of technological opportunities within informal language teaching methods along with the drawbacks that limit its efficiency. While highlighting topics such as accu...

This session discussed major pronunciation problems with a dogged focus on suprasegments that many learners of English generally fail to master adequately. Linking words (juncture) which results in new phonemes as in (*he and she- he an she) or extra phonemic features added to the words when in speech pose striking difficulties to English language...

Although the Internet came into existence in the second half of the twentieth century, its influence on language began to escalate in 1990 onwards. It has drastically changed the way people communicate and use English both in writing and speaking. Consequently, the world has become increasingly interconnected through synchronous and asynchronous co...

p>This study advances research on using language in online communication. It intended to analyze texting on WhatsApp in terms of linguistic and paralinguistic characteristics, the identity of interlocutors, and uses of emojis. Adopting a corpus-based approach to the study of language variation, data were collected from WhatsApp chat group of six ma...

The current study focuses on how prefixes and suffixes in Arabic and English impact one’s working memory capacity to recall verbs. Further, it deals with whether or not Arabic-English bilingual speakers recall Arabic and English prefixed and suffixed verbs differently. To investigate this, the study was conducted in the form of two experiments on a...