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How to Get Yourself on the Door of a Job: A Cross-Cultural Contrastive Study of Arabic and English Job Application Letters
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Al-Ali, Mohammed N. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
This cross-cultural study examined the generic structure of English and Arabic job application letters written by native Arabic speakers and English native speakers to find out the discourse genre text similarities and differences between them. A corpus of 60 job application letters written by 60 job applicants was subjected to the form of move…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Job Application, Job Applicants, Altruism
Language and Cultural Maintenance among the Gypsies of Jordan
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Al-Khatib, Mahmoud A.; Al-Ali, Mohammed N. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005
In this paper we examine the language situation among the Gypsies of Jordan within the framework of previous theories on language maintenance and shift as proposed by Le Page, Fishman, Dorian and Kelman. The study investigates language and cultural maintenance among the Gypsies of Jordan to permit comparison of the relative influences of various…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Maintenance, Cultural Maintenance, Cultural Isolation