scholarly journals COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES OF LITERARY TEXTS USED BY UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN LITERATURE STUDENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Yasmeen Almadani ◽  
Mohd Nazri Latiff Azmi ◽  
Khalid Alsmadi
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Growth Model ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
English Language ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Cultural Model ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
University Of Jordan ◽  
The University

Reading plays a significant role in our daily lives. Literary readers build their worlds and expand their imagination with deviating from the literal words to create images that make sense to them in the unfamiliar places the texts describe. This study examined the most useable strategies among English language and literature students at the University of Jordan as well as whether there are significant differences between males and females in this regard. Methodology: This study employed both descriptive and quantitative approaches to collect data. The sample was selected using simple random sampling. The sample of the study was 120 EFL bachelor students divided into 60 males and 60 females from UJ. SPSS program was used in the data analysis. The research instrument was a questionnaire designed by the researcher in accordance with the study questions. SPSS social package was used to treat the collected data through multiple regression, T-test, and descriptive analyses. Result: The data analysis showed that the most usable strategies were personal growth model, cooperative learning, intensive reading, illustration, cultural model, but that doesn’t mean those are the most effective on the reading ability of literary texts. It also indicated that there are only significant differences in the use of the cultural model and the personal growth model but there aren't any significant differences in the usage of the other mentioned strategies. Conclusion: It is recommended that the decision-makers should pay more attention to the literary texts that are provided to the university students while deciding the bachelor's syllabus. So that they should organize literary texts in combination with the most effective reading strategies. To help them to get rid of the expected difficulties of comprehending such texts. This study contributes to supply the future bachelor syllabuses planning of English language and literature department at the University of Jordan and other universities around.

scholarly journals Linguistic Features’ Variation in Translating Technical Texts

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1520-1530
Author(s):  
Abdul- Hamed Al-Awabdeh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Variation ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
University Of Jordan ◽  
The University

This research examines the contribution of language variation in translating technical texts from English into Arabic language. It aims at analyzing language variation, technical texts translation competence, creating subject field knowledge and generating authenticity in technical texts and translation setting. This study attempts to uncover problems that English language and literature students at the University of Jordan / Aqaba branch problems of translating technical texts. This qualitative research included 30 B.A students selected randomly from the Dept. of English Language and Literature at the University of Jordan. The results of the study revealed that literature students encountered many problems when translating technical texts, particularly when using two different varieties of English American / British into Arabic language. This research recommends that translators and professional in the field should be concerned with translating technical texts and include them in translation syllabi.

Color Connotations in Two Cultures; the Arabic and American Culture-A Contrastive Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Wafa Qtaishat ◽  
Dania Al-Hyari
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Contrastive Study ◽  
American Students ◽  
University Of Jordan ◽  
The University ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Impact

Every color has many different meanings in different cultures. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to study the different meanings for the same color in two different cultures; the Arabic culture and the American culture. It is very important to understand what the impact of communication and color use. The researchers will focus on the use of colors in connotations. Consequently, the data will be collected by using dictionaries. In addition, the researchers will test the understanding of the associations of the selected colors. Therefore, there will be two questionnaires; the first one will be written for Jordanian students who are specialized in the English language, however, the second will test the understanding of American students who are studying Arabic at the language center at the University of Jordan for the meanings of colors in the Arabic culture. Finally, the researchers will discuss the results with providing some recommendations.

Tom Stoppard, New Historicism, and Estrangement in Travesties

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zekiye Er
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
New Historicism ◽  
Incomplete Knowledge ◽  
Tom Stoppard ◽  
The Past ◽  
Linear Approach ◽  
Language And Literature

New historicism rewrites history from different viewpoints in order to prove that the past is inaccessible, and all historians can do is to work on incomplete knowledge, aware of the fact that a teleological, linear approach to their subject is misleading. In this study, Zekiye Er aims not only to analyze Tom Stoppard's Travesties from a new historicist stance, but also to utilize a new historicist approach to an understanding of what Stoppard is doing in the play, in the light of the striking parallels between Stoppard's technique and the new historicist critics' methods of analyzing history and literary texts. She concludes that Stoppard himself plays the role of a new historicist while writing a brilliant comedy of ideas. Zekiye Er received her PhD for a dissertation on Stoppardian drama from Ankara University in 2004. She has been working as a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature of Gaziantep University since 1993.

scholarly journals Jordanian University Students’ Attitudes toward Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Lockdowns: Obstacles and Solutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-159
Author(s):  
Safi Mahmoud Mahfouz ◽  
Wael Juma Salam
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
University Students ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
English Language ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
The University

This study aimed to investigate Jordanian university students’ attitudes toward online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns, shed light on the obstacles students encounter in online learning, and suggest possible solutions. A questionnaire designed by the researchers was used to elicit responses from a study sample consisting of 195 students from the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Jordan – Aqaba. As this is an attitudinal study, the survey questionnaire was designed to elicit student responses on the following domains: gender, seniority level, socioeconomic status, training and orientation for using eLearning platforms, and their attitudes, whether positive or negative, toward online learning. Results of this quantitative research showed that student attitudes toward online learning are generally negative. The majority of the respondents reported that they prefer face-to-face classroom instruction over online learning because it gives them direct contact with the instructors. Furthermore, results revealed statistically significant differences amongst students attributed to their gender, whereas no differences were found with regards to their seniority of study, socioeconomic status, and the eLearning platform they prefer to use. The study concludes by proposing some pedagogical recommendations.

scholarly journals Contributors

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dougal McNeill
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
English Language ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
The University

Introduction  Dougal McNeill is a Senior Lecturer, School of English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies Shintaro Kono is an Associate Professor at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. Alistair Murray is a graduate student in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.

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