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تميز دراسي و بحثي
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البحوث المنشورة
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البحث (1):
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عنوان البحث:
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Discourse Meanings: An Application of Intertextuality Perspective
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تاريخ النشر:
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27/03/2014
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The ultimate
aim of this research paper is to figure out how the discourse meanings of lexemes
can be different from their meanings, which are used in everyday life. This
study considers the Holy Quran an example of a discourse, in which, words
have distinct meanings.
As for
the methodology, the main advancements of the Intertextuality Perspective are
adopted. The Arabic word fata is used as study data. Precisely, the current
study aims to figure out the discoursal meaning of the lexical item fata in
the holy verse Prophets 60. The methodology employed consists of two levels.
Firstly, the main speculations of the primal Islamic scholars, concerning
this word, are added. Secondly, intertextuality is used as a theoretical
construct to map out the discoursal meaning of fata in the Holy Quran. The
study concludes with the claim that the word fata has a discourse meaning in
the Holy Quran which is different from what has been widely claimed. The
study hypothesizes that fata means ‘a servant’ in the Holy Quran regardless
of his or her age. The study recommends adopting this meaning when
interpreting the Holy Quran in order to understand it properly and carefully.
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البحث (2):
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عنوان البحث:
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The Use of Grammatical
Collocations by Advanced Saudi EFL Learners in the UK and KSA
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تاريخ النشر:
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27/01/2015
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This
study attempts to investigate the production of English grammatical
collocations amongst Saudi students majoring in English in the KSA and those
in the UK. It also shows the most frequent types of errors that may occur as
well as some possible reasons for their occurrence. For this purpose, the
researcher analysed essays written by the participants. The results reveal
that Saudi EFL learners in the UK do grammatical collocation errors less than
those who learn English in the KSA. Additionally, the highest number of
errors in both groups was recorded on the grammatical collocations patterns,
noun + preposition and adjective + preposition. It seems that L1 interference
plays a crucial role in students’ erroneous responses, especially those which
contain a preposition. For instance, the majority of noun + preposition,
adjective + preposition and preposition + noun are used incorrectly
throughout the essays. Furthermore, the avoidance phenomenon in SLA may be
used by Saudi students. They tend to avoid using some grammatical collocation
categories such as adjective + that- clause and noun + that-clause since they
are beyond their English proficiency level. Finally, the lack of knowledge of
grammatical collocations is another possible reason behind such errors.
Educational leaders, curriculum designers and teachers need to shed light on
these types, especially as the English language curricula used in the KSA do
not pay a great deal of attention to grammatical collocations.
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البحث (3):
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عنوان البحث:
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Apology Strategies Employed by
Saudi EFL Teachers
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تاريخ النشر:
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17/11/2016
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This
study examines the apology strategies used by 30 Saudi EFL teachers in
Najran, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), paying special attention to
variables such as social distance and power and offence severity. The study
also delineates gender differences in the respondents’ speech as opposed to
studies that only examined speech act output by native and non-native
speakers of English. To this end, the study employs a Discourse Completion
Task (DCT) that consists of 10 situations designed to test how the respondents
would react if they imagine that they belong to different types of social
status whether higher, lower or equal. In addition, social distance and power
have been taken into consideration in designing the ten situations included
in the test used in this study. The results reveal that Illocutionary Force
Indicating Device (IFID) is the most used apology strategy by the Saudi
respondents followed by downgrading responsibility (DR), upgrader, offer of
repair, taking on responsibility and then verbal redress. The results also
reveal that gender has a great impact on the use of apology strategies in
various ways. For instance, the IFID strategy and the upgrader strategy are
used by males more than their female counterparts, whereas females use the DR
strategy more than their male counterparts. It has been argued that some of
the respondents’ answers to the test were influenced by their mother tongue,
as reported in previous studies conducted on apology strategies. The study
discusses the results elicited via the DCT and compares them with those of
previous studies on apology strategies and other speech acts. Finally, the
study concludes with recommendations for further research.
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البحث (4):
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عنوان البحث:
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A Contrastive Study
of the Use of Apology Strategies by Saudi EFL Teachers and British Native
Speakers of English: A Pragmatic Approach
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تاريخ النشر:
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12/01/2017
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This
study examines the apology strategies used by 30 British native speakers of
English and compares them with those employed by 30 Saudi EFL teachers, using
a Discourse Completion Task (DCT). The study considers expressions of regret
based on gender, cultural differences and severity of the offence. It is a
quantitative, descriptive research study; it relies in its data collection
process on a DCT whose reliability and internal and external validity are
verified. It investigates three categories of variables types: binary,
nominal and ordinal. The binary variables refer to gender, i.e., male and
female, the nominal category is concerned with Arabic and English languages,
and ordinal variables refer to the most frequent apology strategies employed
by the respondents. The present study uses a quantitative method of data
analysis which employs descriptive statistics (i.e., frequency analysis and
percentages) in order to address the research questions and indicate the
types of apology strategies that are frequently used by the speakers of the
two investigated groups. The findings show different ways of using apology
strategies by the two investigated groups based on the variables considered.
Finally, the study concludes with some pedagogical implications for EFL
teachers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).
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المؤتمرات العلمية:
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المؤتمر (1):
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عنوان المؤتمر:
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8th Saudi Students’ Conference – UK
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تاريخ الإنعقاد:
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31/01/2015
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مكان
الإنعقاد:
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London, UK
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طبيعة المشاركة:
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Poster
presentation
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عنوان المشاركة:
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The use of English grammatical Collocations by advanced Saudi EFL
learners in the UK and KSA
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ملخص المشاركة:
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This study attempts to investigate the
production of English grammatical collocations amongst Saudi students
majoring in English in the KSA and those in the UK. It also shows the most
frequent types of errors that may occur as well as some possible reasons for
their occurrence. For this purpose, the researcher analysed essays written by
the participants. The results reveal that Saudi EFL learners in the UK do
grammatical collocation errors less than those who learn English in the KSA.
Additionally, the highest number of errors in both groups was recorded on the
grammatical collocations patterns, noun + preposition and adjective +
preposition. It seems that L1 interference plays a crucial role in students’
erroneous responses, especially those which contain a preposition. For
instance, the majority of noun + preposition, adjective + preposition and
preposition + noun are used incorrectly throughout the essays. Furthermore,
the avoidance phenomenon in SLA may be used by Saudi students. They tend to
avoid using some grammatical collocation categories such as adjective + that-
clause and noun + that-clause since they are beyond their English proficiency
level. Finally, the lack of knowledge of grammatical collocations is another
possible reason behind such errors. Educational leaders, curriculum designers
and teachers need to shed light on these types, especially as the English
language curricula used in the KSA do not pay a great deal of attention to
grammatical collocations.
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المؤتمر (2):
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عنوان المؤتمر:
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2017 International Conference on Education
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تاريخ الإنعقاد:
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12-16/03/2017
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مكان
الإنعقاد:
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San Diego, USA
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طبيعة المشاركة:
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Paper Presentation
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عنوان المشاركة:
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Innovation In Data
Collection: Methodological Challenges Of Linguists: Measuring the Development
of Pragmatic Competence in EFL Students Whose First Language is Arabic or
Chinese; Interlanguage Pragmatics Approach
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ملخص المشاركة:
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The aim of the
study is analysing the relative contributions of first language and culture,
general linguistic level, attitude to English language and culture, and
length of stay in the UK, in determining level of pragmatic competence in L2
English. Seven Saudi and seven Chinese learners participated in a pilot study
involving a variety of data collection instruments. In order to measure the
predictor variables, participants completed questionnaires about language
background and usage, and about attitudes to English language and culture. Secondly,
they took a general language test consisting of essay writing, interview,
vocabulary, grammar and listening. The dependent variable, pragmatic
competence, was assessed using a role-play and written discourse completion
tasks in which participants had to apologise in English in a variety of
situations. Participants’ responses were coded qualitatively according to the
apology strategies they employed, while overall pragmatic success was rated
quantitatively by trained judges who were native speakers of English.
The main challenges
to the study include the recruitment and retention of suitable subjects, the
recruitment and retention of native-speaker interlocutors and judges of
competence, and the logistics of coordinating so many face-to-face tests.
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المؤتمر (3): |
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عنوان المؤتمر: |
ESRC
Doctoral Training Centre, New Forms of Data: Innovation in the Social Sciences |
تاريخ الإنعقاد: |
02/12/2016 |
مكان الإنعقاد:
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Cambridge,
UK
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طبيعة المشاركة: |
Paper
Presentation |
عنوان المشاركة: |
Phases
of Innovation-Based Data Elicitation: Classical Elicitation of Data, Richness
of Language, Relations and Social Research |
ملخص المشاركة: |
Undoubtedly, data elicitation in
the area of human and social sciences is usually encountered by various
challenges. Those challenges are the main focus of this research paper. The
present study examines the role of the research being a fundamental factor that
brings in innovation and creativity to the process of data elicitation instead
of the classical tools of eliciting data. The current study argues that such
classical tools fall short of meeting the various academic challenges which
encounter the researchers nowadays. For instance, Umberto Eco (1977) clarified
in his invaluable work how to write a thesis that translation-text-based social
sciences require knowledge of foreign languages like French and Arabic on the
part of the research in order to handle translation issues that affect the
relationship between texts and readers and subsequently changing reception
(37). In addition, researchers are expected to tighten their relations with
librarians, whether local or international, so that they can have easy access
to resources that lead them to profitable findings. Elicitation of qualitative
data depends of various innovation ways. First, researchers should handle
research as a social action similar to different aspects of professional and
private life. As such, researchers will be able exploit the explorations of
daily creative opportunities. Second, researchers should base their studies on
the observation of interactions between people and society. Third, researchers
should be indulged into social interaction with people in order to approach the
research settings and be able of have appropriate record of such an interaction
(Holliday 2016).
Finally, researchers are required to increase
their linguistic richness in order to promising and reliable data. As such,
researchers will be able to represent their findings in individual contexts.
The study argues as well that innovation-based-data elicitation relies on
ethnographic and social interactions which represent challenges to various
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جوائز التكريم:
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الجائزة (1):
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مسمى الجائزة:
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Best Presentation Award
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الجهة المانحة:
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Clute Institute
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تاريخ منح الجائزة:
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21/03/2017
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مجال التكريم:
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Best Presentation
Award for the paper titled: Innovation in Data Collection: Methodological Challenges
of linguists in 2017 International Conference on Education San Diego for.
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