- Languages and Linguistics, English, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Twentieth Century American Poetry, and 24 moreCritical Literacy Studies, Literary Stylistics, Contemporary American Poetry, teaching English language and translation studies, Arabic translation, English and Applied linguistics, English Literature, Linguistics and English Language Teaching, Second Language Pedagogy, Literary Theory, Metaphor and Metonymy, Pragmatics, Translation Studies, Interpreting Studies, Comparative Literature, Literary Criticism, Gender Studies, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Critical Discourse Studies, Arabic Literature, Rhetoric, Discourse Analysis, and Modern and contemporary American poetryedit
Research Interests: Psychology, Social Psychology, Pragmatics, Poetry, Face, and 13 moreTeaching English As A Foreign Language, Politeness, Intercultural Pragmatics, Speech acts, Twentieth Century American Poetry, Mitigation, Translation and Interpreting Studies, Apology, Politeness strategies, Romantic English poetry, request, Softeners, and Syntactic Down Graders
This research explored the most common writing errors of Science and Arts students of the Foundation year program at a Saudi University that hinder them from achieving their course goals, learning outcomes and becoming efficient writers.... more
This research explored the most common writing errors of Science and Arts students of the Foundation year program at a Saudi University that hinder them from achieving their course goals, learning outcomes and becoming efficient writers. The importance of this research stems from the fact that, it is a comparative study that shows the differences in writing errors between Science and Arts students and relates writing difficulties to students’ background education, family support, level of the language and teacher’s feedback techniques. It unveils the causes of writing errors and suggests suitable remedies from teacher’s perspectives. The findings can be useful for teachers, students and course designers.
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The present study investigates the frequently used speech acts related to positive and negative politeness techniques employed in requests and apologies by faculty members at King Abdulaziz University. Social interaction on University... more
The present study investigates the frequently used speech acts related to positive and negative politeness techniques employed in requests and apologies by faculty members at King Abdulaziz University. Social interaction on University Campus reflects Hejazi culture located in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia. The significance of the study arises from its focus on university-life interaction between faculty members as it provides an investigation of positive and negative politeness strategies. The paper tries to answer two questions: 1) Is there a relationship between the faculty's years of experience and the request strategies employed? 2) Is there a relationship between the faculty years of experience and the apology strategies used? To answer these questions, a Discourse Completion Test was developed and given to 30 faculty members. The findings of the study show that social power, which is derived from having more years of experience, affects the request and apology strategies used among Saudi female faculty members. Faculty members of an older generation tend to use syntactically more extended sentences in requests compared to their younger colleagues, to alleviate the sense of their social power and save others' sense of face. In contrast, the more youthful faculty members tended to use syntactically longer sentences in apologies compared to their older colleagues to show more respect. The study was conducted in Women Campus, and it is recommended to implement it on a larger scale with more participants to get more complete results.
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This research explored the most common writing errors of Science and Arts students of the Foundation year program at a Saudi University that hinder them from achieving their course goals, learning outcomes and becoming efficient writers.... more
This research explored the most common writing errors of Science and Arts students of the Foundation year program at a Saudi University that hinder them from achieving their course goals, learning outcomes and becoming efficient writers. The importance of this research stems from the fact that, it is a comparative study that shows the differences in writing errors between Science and Arts students and relates writing difficulties to students' background education, family support, level of the language and teacher's feedback techniques. It unveils the causes of writing errors and suggests suitable remedies from teacher's perspectives. The findings can be useful for teachers, students and course designers.
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This research explored the most common writing errors of Science and Arts students of the Foundation year program at a Saudi University that hinder them from achieving their course goals, learning outcomes and becoming efficient writers.... more
This research explored the most common writing errors of Science and Arts students of the Foundation year program at a Saudi University that hinder them from achieving their course goals, learning outcomes and
becoming efficient writers. The importance of this research stems from the fact that, it is a comparative study that shows the differences in writing errors between Science and Arts students and relates writing difficulties to students’ background education, family support, level of the language and teacher’s feedback techniques. It unveils the causes of writing errors and suggests suitable remedies from teacher’s perspectives. The findings can be useful for teachers, students and course designers.
Keywords: Error analysis, interlingual and intralingual errors, L1 interference, teaching material, feedback
becoming efficient writers. The importance of this research stems from the fact that, it is a comparative study that shows the differences in writing errors between Science and Arts students and relates writing difficulties to students’ background education, family support, level of the language and teacher’s feedback techniques. It unveils the causes of writing errors and suggests suitable remedies from teacher’s perspectives. The findings can be useful for teachers, students and course designers.
Keywords: Error analysis, interlingual and intralingual errors, L1 interference, teaching material, feedback
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Frost is a master of dramatic poetry. He employs a dramatic situation that involves setting, plot, action and characters that are revealed through dialogue. His main target is to reveal the human soul when it is put under strain and his... more
Frost is a master of dramatic poetry. He employs a dramatic situation that involves setting, plot, action and characters that are revealed through dialogue. His main target is to reveal the human soul when it is put under strain and his universality is derived from his ability to portray real men and women. “Mending Wall”, the opening poem in North of Boston, is an example of Frosts mastery of dramatic poetry; the poem has a setting, plot, characters that all combine to convey a specific theme
