Sharif Alghazo

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• PhD in Applied Linguistics
• Professor (Associate) at University of Sharjah

Research in the area of intercultural rhetoric has mainly focused on academic writing in English and other languages. However, the writing of research article abstracts in English and Arabic has yet received scarce attention. To this end, this study shows how academic writers interact with their readers in both English and Arabic, or how writers ex...

Stance is a feature of academic writing that refers to how writers interact and engage with their readers by means of linguistic devices. This study focuses on the grammatical devices—and semantic distinctions thereof—that are employed by academic writers of English to express stance in research article abstracts in the areas of applied linguistics...

This study explores the use and functions of engagement strategies in English and Arabic newspaper editorials. To this end, the study analyses 80 editorials collected from two popular newspapers (40 from each): The Guardian which publishes in English and appears in the UK and Addustour which publishes in Arabic and appears in Jordan. Following Palt...

This study investigates the efficacy of the type of instruction (i.e., perception-based vs. production-based) on second language (L2) pronunciation acquisition in an English as a foreign language (EFL) context. To achieve this objective, 60 tertiary-level Jordanian learners of English were recruited and put into two groups (30 learners in each grou...

Following Alqarni (2020), this research article provides a pragmatic undertaking of evil eye as a constructed speech act, with a particular focus on data from Colloquial Jordanian Arabic (CJA), whose culture has not been significantly examined in this regard. Firstly, the research article demonstrates that Jordanian eyers use a set of linguistic st...

This study examines the strategies and challenges of subtitling the religious discourse marker والله wallah (by God) in Jordanian Arabic drama on Netflix. Two works, the series Jinn (2019) and the film Theeb (2014), are chosen as the corpus of the data. The study analyses the pragmatic functions of the religious marker wallah, which Arabs usually u...

This study investigates the impacts of age and gender on the use of euphemistic strategies in Alexandrian Arabic, a dialect that is spoken in the coastal city of Alexandria to the north-west of Egypt. To achieve this objective, a role-play that includes 6 situations categorised to account for the age and gender variables groups was developed and ad...

The translation of the Holy Quran is daunting and is primarily based on the scholar’s interpretation. This study aims to investigate how the attributes of Allah are translated from Arabic into English. To this end, the study examines five translations of 12 verses that include attributes of Allah to find commonalities and/or differences in renderin...

This study explores the influence of gender and social status on advice-giving strategies in Algerian Arabic. The study involved 50 native Algerian Arabic speakers (25 males and 25 females) who completed a Discourse Completion Task. This task, designed to measure the gender and social status variables, presented three types of advice-giving situati...

This paper provides an autosegmental analysis of phonological alternations in Kabardian, an Abhkaz-Adyghean language. It illustrates how several phonological re-write rules, postulated in Colarusso’s (1992) phonological analysis of Kabardian which, in some cases, lacks adequate explanation, may be uniformly reinterpreted as instances of mapping bet...

This study compares the efficacy of traditional learning to blended learning, which combines in-person instruction with online learning, in terms of academic performance and selfefficacy. The two main goals of the study are to determine whether there are any significant differences in post-general self-efficacy (GSE) scores between the experimental...

This corpus-based study explores the expression of gratitude in the acknowledgement section of doctoral dissertations in both English and Arabic. The objective is to analyse how gratitude in academic discourse is structured in these languages and to explore any differences related to gender. The study examines 80 dissertations (40 in English and 40...

As a new tool in the field of educational technology, H5P appears to have the potential to teach a second language (L2). This study aims to highlight the potential direction of upcoming teaching methods, sparking informed choices in educational approaches and guidelines, by evaluating both the concrete and abstract results of incorporating H5P. To...

This study explores the construction of authorial stance in English and Arabic newspaper editorials. To achieve this objective, the study examines a corpus of 80 newspaper editorials retrieved from two newspapers: The first publishes in English (The Guardian, the UK), and the second publishes in Arabic (Addustour, Jordan). The study adopts Hyland’s...

This study investigates the metaphorical representations of physical pain amongst Algerian Arabic speakers. To uncover these conceptualisations, an oral Discourse Completion Test (DCT) was administered to 30 Algerian university students. A qualitative approach was used to analyse the data and generate the conceptual metaphors used. Grounded in Köve...

The cognate accusative (CA) in Arabic grammar is a unique structure that has no direct equivalent in English. This paper analyses the various strategies and procedures that the translator used to translate CA instances and assesses the success of these strategies. The significance of the study lies in its attempt to explore the complexities inheren...

This study examines the linguistic features utilised by male and female native English speakers during their Talks at Google using Lakoff and Lakoff’s framework of women’s language. The analysis is conducted on a sample of 14 videos, consisting of seven for each gender, using a mixed-method approach. The quantitative analysis presents the frequenci...

This study explored the compliment response (CR) strategies used by Emirati Arabic speakers. In addition, the study analysed the role of gender and the degree of formality in the use of CR strategies in this Arabic dialect. To this end, the study recruited 56 (28 males and 28 females) undergraduate students from the University of Sharjah (UAE). A w...

The fusion of education with the digital world is still a developing and crucial phenomenon, especially in light of the growth of metaverse applications and the lingering effects of pandemic-induced educational changes. Learning about the efficacy of platforms like Gather.town becomes increasingly important in this situation. This study explores th...

This study examines the employment of persuasive strategies in informational emails that market products and/or services, illustrating how these strategies influence target customers and persuade them to make purchases. A corpus of 850 emails, encompassing over a million words, was compiled and analyzed using a mixed-method approach that integrated...

The “Language Phylogeny Poster” (LangPP) project (Family Trees of Languages) is a series of three educational posters based on recent work in historical linguistics – the study of the evolution of languages – using, among others, the same phylogenetic methods commonly applied in the life sciences (population genetics, Bayesian inference, etc.). The...

List of all 80 posters (as of April 2025) with hyperlinks to each poster on ResearchGate. * Click on the ‘X’ within a box to open the respective page of the poster on ResearchGate from where it can be downloaded. Posters now available in 20 languages: English, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Portugue...

ملصقات "أشجار اللغات" - سلسلة من ثلاثة ملصقات تعليمية كنظرة عامة على العلاقات والأصول المختارة لأهم اللغات و عائلات اللغات

Keywords Abstract Generalized self-efficacy; intrinsic motivation; metaverse; small group discussions; speaking course. The debate on online and traditional classroom methods has gained traction in the rapidly changing world of education. This is especially true when discussing elements that are critical to the learning process, such as student mot...

شجرة العائلات اللغوية - الجزء ٢: الأمريكية، الألطية (العابرة لأوراسيا)، الصينية التبتية، الهمونغ مين، كراداي، النمساوية الآسيوية، الأسترونيزية © Cole, Siebert-Cole, Alghazo 2024 ٢۰٢٤ (CC-BY) Arabic version of: COLE TCH, SIEBERT-COLE E (2024) FAMILY TREE of LANGUAGES, Part 2: American, Transeurasian, Sino-Tibetan, Hmong-Mien, Kra-Dai, Austro-Asiatic...

كول ت. ك. ح.، سيبرت-كول إي.، الغزو ش. ٢۰٢٤ شجرة العائلات اللغوية الجزء ۳: الأفريقية، الدرافيدية، الأورالية، القوقازية، الأفرو آسيوية Arabic version of: COLE TCH, SIEBERT-COLE E (2024) FAMILY TREE of LANGUAGES, Part 3: African, Dravidian, Uralic, Caucasian, Afro-Asiatic © Cole, Siebert-Cole, Alghazo 2024 (CC-BY)

كول ت. ك. ح.، سيبرت-كول إي.، الغزو ش. (٢۰٢٤) شجرة العائلات اللغوية – الجزء ۱: الهندو أوروبية Arabic version of: COLE TCH, SIEBERT-COLE E (2024) FAMILY TREE of LANGUAGES, Part 1: Indo-European

This study explores the connotative meanings of animal names in the Algerian society. To achieve this objective, a questionnaire containing 20 commonly used animal names in the Algerian society was created to collect data which were analyzed qualitatively. The results show that animal names are frequently used in the Algerian society to connote a v...

This study investigated the use and functions of metadiscourse markers in English as a foreign language (EFL) virtual classroom during the Covid-19 pandemic. The study examined which metadiscourse markers-interactive or interactional-were used more frequently and how they were employed in an EFL context. It explored two interactive metadiscourse re...

This study explores the use of interactional 1 metadiscourse by first language (L1) and second language (L2) English editorialists. The study uses Hyland's (2019) model of metadiscourse to analyse 80 editorials published between 2020 and 2021 in The Guardian and The Jordan Times newspapers (40 from each newspaper). A mixed-method approach-adopting...

Many researchers have investigated the pragmatic meanings and interpretations of religious expressions, especially in Arabic and Muslim contexts. One main property of such expressions is that they are pragmatically multi-purpose expressions whose semantic content has a peripheral contribution to the utterance while their pragmatic force is salient....

Objectives: This sociolinguistic study aims to explore Kabyle immigrants’ perspectives of and attitudes towards their home language (Kabyle) and the language of the host country (French). It also investigates the effects of gender and age on their attitudes towards and maintenance of their home language. Methods: To achieve these objectives, an onl...

This study explores the effect of the workplace on language use by Jordanian working women in terms of variety, lexis, and pronunciation. To this end, the study adopted a triangulation of research methods utilising qualitative and quantitative analyses, i.e. a questionnaire, ethnographic field notes, and interviews. Ethnographic field notes were ta...

Although euphemism has been studied in many Arabic dialects, it has not yet received due attention in Iraqi Arabic (IA). This study investigates the use of euphemistic strategies by IA speakers and the effect of gender and degree of formality on the use of these strategies. In order to achieve these objectives, a discourse completion test (DCT) was...

This study investigates the use of interactive metadiscourse markers in first language (L1) and second language (L2) English editorials. It also identifies how L1 and L2 editorials differ in the use of these markers. To this end, the study utilizes Hyland's (2019) model of interactive metadiscourse to analyse-based on a descriptive approach-80 edit...

This study investigates the use and linguistic properties of refusal strategies by Jordanians and Syrian refugees in Jordan. To achieve this objective, a Discourse Completion Test (DCT), consisting of 10 situations: three requests, three offers, two invitations, and two suggestions was used. The participants were 40 (20 male and 20 female) Jordania...

This article offers evidence, which is based on acceptability judgement tasks, in favour of the absence of unmarked linear serializations of stacked, non-coordinated adjectives in Jordanian Arabic (JA). Results from 16 experiments of acceptability judgements from 197 native speakers of JA point to the fact that JA places no adjective ordering. Howe...

This descriptive study aims to examine English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students’ experiences in a study abroad context and the adaptation strategies they use to deal with academic and socio-cultural challenges. It also aims to show how the students’ experiences and resilience affect their self-efficacy. The data are collected from nine Algerian...

This study aims to explore the difficulties involved in translating similar plural nouns in the Holy Quran from Arabic into English. It specifically investigates 21 plural nouns derived from seven singular nouns in the Holy Quran and discusses their exegetic contexts and translation into English. To achieve this aim, the study tracks singular nouns...

Little research has related DMs to (im)politeness, and none in Jordanian Arabic (JA). This study provides evidence that (im)politeness can categorize interactive DMs into polite DMs and impolite DMs in JA. It aims to explore the use of DMs in JA in relation to (im)politeness dichotomy. Twenty-two episodes of three different Jordanian radio shows wh...

This study explores the persuasive attack strategies used by participants in the ‘Opposite Direction’ program to attack actions and characters. In particular, the study examines the differences (if any) between the attack strategies directed at actions and those at characters. To this end, 299 utterances which were taken from 30 episodes were analy...

This study aims to explore the use of disagreement strategies in two Arabic dialects: Jordanian and Algerian Arabic. It also investigates the effect of social status on the choice of disagreement strategies adopting Muntigl and Turnbull's (1998) taxonomy. To achieve these objectives, 40 participants (20 Jordanians and 20 Algerians) were randomly re...

This study explores the use of textual and interpersonal metadiscourse markers in political discourse and their role in persuasion. To this end, the study examines four political speeches delivered by Hillary Clinton, an American politician. The speeches were retrieved from YouTube, transcribed and analysed following Dafouz-Milne’s (2008) model of...

This study presents a pragmatic analysis of the speech act of criticism as used on Facebook and Twitter against government policies in Jordan. It examines the effect of gender on the participants’ choice of criticism strategies. The data obtained comprises 300 public posts, comments, and tweets. An adapted version of Nguyen’s (2005) framework of cr...

This study argues that idiomatic expressions are essentially used as pragmatic messages which are heavily laden with implicatures and/or contextual effects. This implies that idiomatic expressions are not pure propositional elements that necessarily have (non-compositional) semantic content, whereas any pragmatic messages are affiliated with contex...

Routledge Handbook of Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis edited by Eric Friginal and Jack A. Hardy, Routledge, 2021, 662pp., $250.00 (Hardcover). ISBN 9780367201814.

This study aims to identify the intensifiers used in Ammani Arabic and to explore whether or not their use is socially constrained by age, gender, and education. Furthermore, the study attempts to find whether the use of intensifiers throughout this dialect is internally constrained through the examination of the effects of a set of linguistic fact...

This study explores the use and functions of discourse markers (DMs) in the narrative essays of 85 Jordanian high school students adopting Frasers's (2006) framework. The results show that the most frequently used DMs were elaborative (55.1%), followed by temporal (31.4%), inferential (9.3%) and contrastive (4%) respectively. Regarding the function...

This study aims to explore the use of euphemistic strategies by Algerians and Americans when dealing with three unpleasant topics: death, lying, and disease. It also examines the effect of degree of formality on the use of euphemistic strategies. To achieve this objective, a discourse completion task (DCT) was designed by the authors and distribute...

This article investigates the discourse functions of ʕaad in Jordanian Arabic (JA), based on a naturally occurring corpus which consists of 20 sociolinguistic interviews with 60 participants. Upon analysing all occurrences of ʕaad in the corpus, we propose that ʕaad is a discourse marker that provides supplementary information that relates the spea...

Although translation is a means of intercultural communication, it represents a challenge when it comes to rendering the intended meaning of some propositions, particularly because every language has its distinctive features and structures that may not be accurately rendered into the target language. This challenge is reinforced when translation oc...

This study investigates the use of concessive discourse markers in Jordanian Arabic (JA), particularly relying on a corpus analysis of naturally occurring data. It argues that there are mainly two types of concession in JA: extrinsic concession and intrinsic concession. The two types of concession are shown to differ from each other with respect to...

This study explores the use and functions of textual and interpersonal English pragmatic markers (PMs) as used by Jordanian university students. It also examines the effect of gender on the use of PMs. To this end, a functional-pragmatic approach was used in the analysis. The participants were 20 fourth year university students (10 males and 10 fem...

This study aims to investigate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers’ misbehaviours in class and their students’ reactions to these misbehaviours. Towards this end, 60 classroom observations of six English language teachers (N=10 each) were conducted at a public school in Jordan. Moreover, a survey was used to elicit 201 students’ reactions...

Research on good language learners has demonstrated that the use of language learning strategies is effective in developing students’ second language (L2) competence and autonomy. Amongst the great number of studies conducted into language learning strategies in general, very few have looked into the area of L2 pronunciation, and even fewer in a Mi...

This article explores the existence of “native-speakerism” in University of Jordan students’ convictions about the English language and their language learning practices. We argue that native-speakerism can be resisted in part by providing a better understanding of its ideological structure. We develop two terms that may clarify the complexity of t...

Congratulating others is an essential aspect of human social interaction and a speech act that is realised differently in languages. This study aims to investigate the pragmalinguistic realisations of the speech act of congratulating in Kabyle and Jordanian Arabic (JA) by comparing the strategies that Kabyle-speaking and JA-speaking students employ...

This paper discusses the emergence of a new student figure as a result of the Anglophone (We use the term ‘Anglophone’ here with no intention that native-speakerism and native-culturism are exclusively related to the English language, but only to describe the current situation in out context in which English is the dominant language) neoliberal ord...

The present study seeks to explore the link between persuasion and advertising by examining the persuasive appeals used by telecommunication companies in Jordanian and Algerian television commercials. To this end, 12 television advertisements (six from Jordan and six from Algeria) were randomly selected from YouTube. The data were analysed based on...

This research paper investigates the discourse functions of the wh-word ʃuː ‘what’ in Jordanian Arabic (JA). Based on the analysis of a naturally occurring corpus, it was found that ʃuː has developed a discourse function alongside its lexical uses as an interrogative operator, an exclamative particle, and a relativizer. Upon analyzing all tokens of...

Many studies in different contexts have examined both English as a second language (ESL) and English as a foreign language (EFL) students’ convictions about the connection between nativeness in English and professional teacher identity; however, very few studies solely focused on that connection in second language (L2) pronunciation teaching. This...

Grammar teaching has been a constant issue of debate in English as a second language (ESL) and English as a foreign language (EFL) circles. This debate was intensified with the rise of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). Under the hegemony of this approach, explicit grammar teaching has been underemphasized. We argue that this underemphasis is s...

This study explores the extent to which Jordanian university English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students' cognitions about literature are shaped by the concepts of 'linguistic imperialism ', 'native-speakerism ', and 'native-culturism '. A survey is carefully designed by the researchers and electronically distributed to 100 students enrolled in th...

This paper aims to provide insights into the role of curriculum design and teaching materials in the development of English pronunciation in EFL contexts. One of the main contextual factors negatively affecting the development of pronunciation abilities of EFL learners relates to the 'often-unchanging' curriculum design and the 'blind' choice of te...

It is unquestionable that second language (L2) pronunciation forms a fundamental skill that learners need to master in order for them to use the L2 effectively for genuine communication: learners with otherwise perfect language abilities—but with unintelligible pronunciation—will often find difficulty engaging in successful interactions with other...

This paper explores EFL learners' beliefs about English pronunciation teaching and aims to provide insights into current teaching practices of English pronunciation at both college and university levels. To this end, the study sought to elicit the beliefs of a group of 71 third-and fourth-year EFL learners majoring in English at a university colleg...