scholarly journals Attitude toward Enhancing Extensive Listening through Podcasts Supplementary Pack

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalal Alshaikhi ◽  
Abeer Ahmed Madini
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
English Language ◽  
Sequential Design ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
Proficiency Levels ◽  
King Abdulaziz University ◽  
English Language Institute

<p>To promote independent extensive listening, the aim of this study is to investigate Saudi preparatory level students’ and their teachers’ perception about podcasts’ criteria and contents to include in an extensive supplementary listening pack. An exploratory sequential design was adopted to collect data. The results of the focus group thematic analysis helped designing an online close-ended survey. The participants were 120 students and teachers sampled from the four proficiency levels of the English Language Institute (ELI) at King Abdulaziz University (KAU) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The findings of the study revealed that teachers were more familiar with the podcasts than students. Furthermore, all participants had a positive attitude toward using a listening instructional supplementary pack that can include few short authentic podcasts. They recommended using various challenging topics that are related to students’ interests and proficiency levels. This study contributes to the literature of integrating podcasts to enhance extensive listening. It recommends designing an extensive listening supplementary pack based on Vandergrift and Goh’s (2012) metacognitive approach and testing its suitability for application.</p>

scholarly journals Perceptions of EFL Teachers at King Abdulaziz University Regarding the Effectiveness of Cambridge University Press’s Train the Trainer Course

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arab World English Journal ◽  
Catherine Karen Roy ◽  
Sabitha Rahim ◽  
Aishah Yaqoub Khojah
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
English Language ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Train The Trainer ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
King Abdulaziz University ◽  
English Language Institute

This study adds to the current literature on ongoing in-house professional development for teachers by exploring how administrators, other faculty, and the English-language (EFL) teachers who participated in Cambridge University Press’s Train the Trainer course (TTT) at King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Saudi Arabia, judged the TTT’s usefulness. To determine whether to support the TTT in the future, KAU wanted to identify how well its TTT graduates could provide professional development to their colleagues. This study’s aim is to discuss how positively those who were involved in the TTT, particularly the administration, the TTT graduate trainers themselves, and the other teachers who attended the workshops presented by first-year graduates of the ELI’s TTT responded to the course. The main question it addresses is how successful the implementation of such a TTT course can be at the English language institute of a Saudi university, like at KAU, so as to determine if the TTT should continue to be offered at KAU and more generally, taking the example of the ELI at KAU, if the TTT course should also be proposed at other English language institutes in Saudi Arabia. This study employed a Likert scale survey, semi-structured interviews, and open-ended questions with TTT participants, administrators, and other faculty to assess the TTT’s initial value. The main finding of this study is that so far, the TTT course was perceived as beneficial. However, future analyses should evaluate the longer-term effects of the TTT on teaching approaches and student learning.

scholarly journals Assessing the Level of Awareness of COVID-19 and Prevalence of General Anxiety Disorder among the Hail Community, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (13) ◽  
pp. 7035
Author(s):  
Bandar Alsaif ◽  
Najm Eldinn Elsser Elhassan ◽  
Ramaiah Itumalla ◽  
Kamal Elbassir Ali ◽  
Mohamed Ali Alzain
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Major Public Health Problem ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
General Anxiety Disorder ◽  
General Anxiety ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Awareness Campaigns ◽  
Positive Attitudes

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a major public health problem around the world. Therefore, the aim of the study was to assess the awareness and prevalence of General Anxiety Disorder (GAD) with regard to COVID-19 among the Hail community, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in order to help health authorities to effectively control the pandemic. Methods: A cross-sectional online survey was completed by 412 participants living in Hail, Saudi Arabia. The questionnaire assessed demographic characteristics, knowledge, attitudes, and practices for the prevention of COVID-19, as well as psychological feelings in terms of GAD as an impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results: The study found that most of the respondents demonstrated good knowledge, attitudes, and practice for COVID-19 prevention. The elderly and employed demonstrated significant positive attitudes and practices (p < 0.05). Participants with a positive attitude were almost two and a half times (OR = 2.4; 95% CI: 1.54–3.99) more likely to have good practices. Additionally, the rural respondents were less likely (OR = 0.45; 95% CI: 0.21–0.96) to have a positive attitude. Married participants were more than one and a half (OR = 1.60; 95% CI: 1.04–2.44) times more likely to have a positive attitude. The prevalence of GAD was 21.8% and was significantly increased among participants with inadequate knowledge (OR = 2.01; 95% CI: 1.25–3.22), females (OR = 1.92; 95% CI: 1.19–3.09), individuals with chronic diseases (OR = 1.71; 95% CI: 1.02–2.86), and non-Saudi participants (OR = 2.44; 95% CI: 1.02–5.85). Conclusions: Ensuring a sufficient combination of relatively good levels of knowledge, positive attitudes, and desired practices serves as a good approach to preventing the spread of COVID-19. However, the increased prevalence of GAD requires the attention of policymakers. Therefore, a great emphasis should be placed on health awareness campaigns, with a focus on misconceptions and the provision of counseling.

scholarly journals Deep venous thrombosis among diabetic patients in King Abdulaziz University (KAU) Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

10.19082/5185 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 5185-5190
Author(s):  
Hanan Khalid Alotaibi ◽  
Nagah Mohamed Abo el-Fetoh ◽  
Aseel MenwerAlanazi ◽  
Omar Ayed Alanazi ◽  
Abdullah Barghash Alanazi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Venous Thrombosis ◽  
Deep Venous Thrombosis ◽  
Diabetic Patients ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
King Abdulaziz University

ALEXEI VASSILIEV, The History of Saudi Arabia (London: Saqi Press, 1998). Pp. 482. $69.95 cloth.

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-192
Author(s):  
Hala Fattah
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Middle East ◽  
English Language ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Advisory Group ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
History Of ◽  
Central Eastern ◽  
Attention To Detail

This is the most complete and perhaps the best treatment of the origins and development of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia yet to appear in the English language. No serious library can afford to pass it up. The author is a Russian scholar who was Middle East correspondent for Pravda for many years, as well as the director of the Institute for African Studies and member of the Russian Foreign Ministry's advisory group. His knowledge of languages is used to great advantage in the book, and his bibliography of Arabic, Turkish, Russian, English, and French works is an impressive contribution to the history of the Arabian Peninsula. Rare indeed is the scholor who has read, let alone been able to retrieve, the number of valuable local histories that Vassiliev has used for the book. Despite its overwhelming attention to detail, his history is written in a fluid and accessible style, holding the reader's attention till the last. The narrative never flags, even when the author reconstructs the minutiae of the almost daily battles between the armies of central, eastern, and western Arabia in great and absorbing detail. In fact, some sections make for riveting reading, especially those in the latter part of the book, when Ibn Saud faces off against the Ikhwan or browbeats both the internal and external opposition to create his own imprint on the Arabian Peninsula.

scholarly journals Deep Venous Thrombosis among hypertensive patients in King Abdulaziz University (KAU) Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

10.19082/5472 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 5472-5477
Author(s):  
Omar Ayed Alanazi ◽  
Nagah Mohamed Abo El-Fetoh ◽  
Nesreen Ali Mohammed ◽  
Tariq Mozil Aquab Alanizy ◽  
Yasir Wadi Alanazi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Venous Thrombosis ◽  
Deep Venous Thrombosis ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
Hypertensive Patients ◽  
King Abdulaziz University

scholarly journals Online graded assessment of Saudi EFL learners during the Covid-19 pandemic: A successful implication of TAM

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 667-685
Author(s):  
Syed Naeem Ahmed ◽  
Shafiq Ur Rehman ◽  
Said Muhammad Khan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Forced Response ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Digital Assessment ◽  
Online Assessments ◽  
English Language Institute

This paper highlights a successful experience of assessing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learner’s proficiency at Yanbu English Language Institute (YELI), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during the Covid-19 restrictions. To investigate the existing problem various interventions were introduced such as replacing Google Classroom with Black Board, implementing online proctoring during the exams, and portfolios. The provision of online assessments was a forced response to Covid-19 restrictions, which brought many challenges and risks without any prior experience and precedence. Addressing these challenges and making well-informed decisions that can potentially affect the performance and career of hundreds of learners, requires judicious justification and reasoning. The paper reflects on the well-informed strategy TAM used to deploy and address the challenges of online graded assessments effectively during the current pandemic for EFL learners to continue their progress toward their specializations while maintaining academic rigor and quality. This paper also intends to provide an insight to language teachers, practitioners, and policymakers to tackle similar challenges in the future. One among many other objectives of this research was to address the role of digital assessment for effective teaching, learners’ motivation, achievements, and transferability.

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