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Download full textIsmail, Wail; Zailani, Muhammad Azhar; Awad, Zakaria Alcheikh Mahmoud; Hussin, Zaharah; Faisal, Mohd; Saad, Rahimi – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2017
Nowadays, more and more countries are paying attention to graduates' language skill and sending their students abroad to learn languages. As an Islamic country, Malaysia has sent many students to learn Arabic language and Islamic knowledge. This paper aims at examining the level of practice of Arabic language among Malaysian students in Jordanian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Study Abroad, Second Language Learning
Alrawashdeh, Ayah Isam; Al-zayed, Norma Nawaf – English Language Teaching, 2017
This study is aimed at investigating the difficulties that English teachers encountered while teaching listening comprehension and their attitudes towards the subjectin Karak schools. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher used two instruments: a teacher's questionnaire and informal interviews. In order to answer the questions of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Al Nasarat, Salman A. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
This study was designed to examine difficulties in interpreting English phrasal verbs (PVs) that individual college student of English face during their academic career. Interpretation is an apparent obstacle that Jordanian English students encounter as they learn language systematically. The learners being investigated were divided into two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Verbs
Naseeb, Maha Zouhair; Ibrahim, Majid Abdulatif – English Language Teaching, 2017
This study aims at investigating the difficulties encountered by public school students in Amman/ Jordan. The study raises the following questions: What are the obstacles that students may encounter in relation to the derivations? What are the causes of such obstacles? To achieve the aims of the study, the researchers manipulate two methods: A…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Morphology (Languages), Suffixes, Public Schools
Malkawi, Nibal Abdelkarim Mousa; Smadi, Mona – International Education Studies, 2018
The study aims to identify the effect of using brainstorming method in the teaching of English grammar; to improve the level of sixth grade students in English grammar at public schools in Jordan. The study population consisted of all sixth grade students of both sexes. The sample of the study was chosen in the random stratified manner,…
Descriptors: Brainstorming, Grammar, Academic Achievement, Grade 6
Abu-Snoubar, Tamador K. – International Education Studies, 2017
This paper aims at exploring the relation between the two skills of listening and speaking. In addition, it tries to investigate the presence of any gender differences in this relation. To achieve these ends, the listening and speaking exams marks of (122) EFL students registered in the "English 102" on-line compulsory course were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Listening Skills, Speech Skills
Bataineh, Ruba Fahmi; Al-Hamad, Raghda Fayez; Al-Jamal, Dina Abdulhameed – Teaching English with Technology, 2018
"WhatsApp" is a potentially influential informal learning tool that may be used on the go. This study examines its potential utility in EFL writing with special reference to gender. The treatment encompasses a "WhatsApp"-based instructional program designed specifically to help develop writing performance, along the aspects of…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
AlSaleem, Basmah Issa – International Education Studies, 2018
This study investigated the effect of utilizing Facebook activities on enhancing oral communication skills for English as Foreign Language learners (EFL) in the English Department at Yarmouk University, Jordan. Participants of the study were first year English Language Bachelor degree students who speak English as a foreign language. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Al-Khaza'leh, Bilal Ayed – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
The present study aimed at investigating the influence of social power, as a social hierarchy, on perception of speech act of apology by 40 Jordanian second language speakers (JL2Ss) compared to that of 40 Jordanian non-English speakers, those whose English proficiency is low (JNESs) and 40 English native speakers (ENSs). Discourse Completion Test…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Al-Ghazo, Abeer – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of met cognitive strategies on reading comprehension among Jordanian university students. The participants of this research consists of two classes of English Course , Level one with 60 students, 30 in the control group and 30 in the experimental group. Then, Metacognitive reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Direct Instruction, Metacognition, English (Second Language)
Mohaidat, Mohammad Mahmoud Talal – English Language Teaching, 2018
This study aimed to investigate the impact of the electronic mind map (IMindMap) on the development of reading comprehension among the ninth grade students in Jordan. The sample of the study consisted of two ninth grade sections from two public schools in Irbid First Directorate during the academic 2016-2017. Each section consisted of (30)…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Teaching Methods
Smadi, Oqlah; Alrishan, Amal – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This study aimed at investigating the strategies utilized by Jordanian EFL University graduate students in translating idioms into Arabic. The participants of the study were all M.A translation students at the University of Jordan and Yarmouk University who were selected purposefully. The total number of the students was 90 who participated in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies
Albashtawi, Abeer H.; Jaganathan, Paramaswari; Singh, Manjet – Higher Education Studies, 2016
This study aimed to investigate the linguistic knowledge aspect in academic reading, the challenges and the deployed strategies by English major undergraduates at a Jordanian institution of higher education. The importance of the study is attributed to the importance of the academic reading at university which is closely related to the academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Saeed, Farah Jamal Abed Alrazeq; Al-Zayed, Norma Nawaf – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2018
The study aimed at investigating the attitudes of Jordanian undergraduate students towards using computer assisted-language learning (CALL) and its effectiveness in the process of learning the English language. In order to fulfill the study's objective, the researchers used a questionnaire to collect data, followed-up with semi-structured…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods
Huwari, Ibrahim Fathi; Al-Shboul, Yasser – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This study investigates the perception of Jordanian EFL learners' (JEFL) pragmatic transfer of refusal strategies in terms of contextual and cultural factors. Data were collected using a discourse completion test (DCT) and a scaled-response questionnaire (SRQ) to elicit perception data from the participants. Data from the SRQ were analyzed based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes
