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Abbas, MOHSEN
Helwan University, Egypt.
Topic Area NO: 4
Title of Presentation: The Misrepresentation of the African in Joyce Cary’s novel “Mister Johnson”
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Joyce Cary’s Mister Johnson is a novel of character with the primary focus on a probational clerk in the Fada district of Nigeria in the 1930’s. Although the novel does explore the several created worlds of Johnson, and other characters, it still has a basic unity because of the focused balance on the clerk as the emotional heart of the tale and the British district officer as the rational and moral centre. Johnson’s representation makes him a tragicomic hero. The paper will demonstrate how Cary’s portrayal of character and scene are influenced by his colonially distorted conception of Africa.
Abbas, INSAF
Al Quds Open University, Palestine
Topic Area NO: 5
Title of Presentation: English Language Teacher Training in Palestine: What Is and What Will Be.
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The study aims at surveying the existing strategy of English language teacher training that is being applied in preparing prospective English language teachers at the universities in Palestine. The question of the efficiency and purpose -fulfilling of the implementation of this strategy will be raised. The follow-up training in the in-service training programs will be surveyed as well especially as the introduction of the new Palestinian English language school syllabus (English For Palestine) is constantly being introduced. The future plans and ambitions will be stated as well. The study will follow a descriptive analytical method in exposing these practiced realities. Some recommendations will be presented in an attempt for improvement.
ABDELALI, FATIMA
M’hamed Bouguar Boumerdes Algeria, Algeria
Topic Area No: 5
Title of Presentation: The Comma: a Feature of Cohesion and Coherence?
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Writing classes focus their attention mostly on the use of language elements (lexis, pronouns, articles, and conjunctions) and on discourse organization. However, little attention is given to punctuation, specially the comma, as related to sentence length, which also causes writing breakdowns. This paper intends to stress the need to make its teaching more explicit.
Abdel-Fattah, MAHMOUD
Birzeit University, Palestine
Topic Area No: 1+2
Title of Presentation: Arabic-Hebrew Language-Switching and Cultural Alienation
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The phenomenon of Arabic-Hebrew language-switching is increasingly prevalent among the Arab population in Israel. This is a preliminary investigative study of Arabic-Hebrew language-switching which deals with the analysis of randomly selected pieces of discourse collected, for the purpose of the study, from various sectors of the Arab population. The paper will include three main sections in which an attempt will be made to answer the following three questions: (i) which parts of the community use language-switching distinctively in their everyday communication, (ii) what is the nature of such usage and the reasons behind it, and (iii) what is the relationship between language-switching and cultural identity?
Abderrahman, WAJIH
Taibah university Madinah, SA
Topic Area No: 3
Title of Presentation: The Role of Arabic Derivation in Translating English Collocations
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This paper aims to thoroughly investigate the translation into Arabic of English collocations. It is divided into two parts: part one deals with the nature, types and history of collocations; part two sheds light on some problems encountered in translating English collocations. The paper argues that the role of Arabic derivation in rendering English collocations tends to be totally ignored by professional translators. The assumption that the concept of collocation was first introduced by Firth is reconsidered.
Abou El Naga, Shereen
Cairo University, Egypt
Topic Area No: 2
Title of Presentation: Women Crossing Borders of Experience
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In this presentation I argue that the feminist text has undergone a process of self-liberation through an incessant act of genre and experience transgression. The feminist text has crossed the borders of isolated scholarship and borders of experience only to cloud the orthodox literary lens through which it was read and interpreted. In the texts I will examine the border is a special transgressive space that guarantees displacement of the stereotypical women’s experience, and it is a border that, paradoxically, frees the text from the traditional feminist taxonomy of second wave feminism. And finally, it is a border that embraces contradiction, dislocation and change.
Abu Naba'h, Abdalla
Hashemite University, Jordan
Topic Area NO: 5
Title of Presentation: An Analysis of Lexical errors Made by In-service English Language Teachers in Jordan
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This study aims at analyzing quantitatively and qualitatively the lexical errors made by in-service English language teachers in Jordan. The sample of the study consists of 50 in-service English language teachers enrolled in the upgrading program at the Hashemite University. Analysis of the data yielded two main categories of errors: interlingual and intralingual errors. Interlingual errors accounted for 85% and intralingual errors accounted for 15% of the total number of errors. The implications of the study for ELT in Jordan are highlighted and recommendations for improving English language teaching are suggested.
Abu-Baker, Mohamed
Garyounis University, Libya
Topic Area No: 2
Title of Presentation: Constructing the East: Travel Narratives in Early Modern England and the Politics of Representation
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The contemporary readings of early modern travel accounts reveal 'subtexts beneath the apparently innocent details of journeys in other lands that enable us to see more clearly the ways in which travellers construct the cultures they experience'. These readings also reveal that travelers construct those cultures by setting up a hierarchical dichotomy of primary and secondary, greater and lesser, stronger and weaker, even good and evil, trying all the time to disguise the 'ideological implications of such hierarchization'. Indeed, a close reading of two early modern travel narratives, Fynes Moryson's An Itinerary and George Sandys' A Relation of a Journey, indicate a presence of cultural stereotypes and reveal ideological tendencies in the home culture in the way the travelers react to what they see elsewhere.
Aghacy, Samira
Lebanese American University, Lebanon
Topic Area No: 2
Title of Presentation: Modernization Without Modernity in Contemporary
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This paper focuses on the nature of the Lebanese encounter with modernity al-hadatha in Lebanese fiction over the past forty years or so, a time of great ideological, political and cultural upheavals. In works such as Rachid Al-Daif’s Dear Mr. Kawabata, Layla Baalbaki’s Ana Ahya (I Survive), Elias Khoury’s The Journey of Little Gandhi and others, the aim of many characters is to rid society of a backward looking mentality that they think disqualifies its people from participating in a progressive, forward looking mode of life. Nevertheless, in the midst of the new, the transitory, and the fleeting, one encounters a strong desire for an area of life that would remain untouched by the newness of modernity. Indeed, many of these writers present characters torn between a regressive mythology, and the irresistible allure of the new. Lebanese fiction reveals tension between the emergence of new spheres and locales, new ways of organizing space and time, and the atavistic compulsion to discard and eliminate them from the field of vision. If some texts present traditionalism and modernity as binary formations divided along dichotomous lines, others reveal the coexistence of the modern and the traditional in contradictory union. In the paper, my approach will be theoretical using Louay Safi’s The Challenge of Modernity; Jurgan Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, Derek Hepwood’s, Islam and Modernity, Timothy Mitchel’s Questions of Modernity and others.
Al-Abed Al-HAQ, Fawwaz
Yarmouk University, Jordan
Topic Area No: 5
Title of Presentation: The Significance of Cultural Dimension in Foreign Language Training
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The present study aims at exploring the cultural dimension associated with training in foreign language teaching and learning of Arab learners of English in the USA. The study attempts to assess expressed views, attitude, and experiences about EFL in the USA. Moreover, the study also investigates linguistic and cultural role of Islamic centers which cater for the communal affairs of the Arab communities in the USA. A questionnaire was designed, developed and distributed to 300 English language learners studying in the USA. The major finding of the study reveal that there is a clear indication that Arab learners of English in the USA are exposed to a considerable cultural discomfort and cultural misunderstanding on the part of EFL trainers. It also concluded that Islamic centers have shown to play a very cooperative cultural and linguistic role and that EFL planners ought to avail themselves of such resources.
Al-Azab, Gihan Sidky
Cairo University, Egypt
Topic Area NO: TEFL
Title of Presentation: The Power Game: Ideological Beliefs and their Influence on Teachers’ Perceptions of their Roles in a Classroom Setting
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The purposes of the study are to investigate the influence of ideology on power dynamics between the teacher and the students within classroom settings. Three categories are examined in relation to ideological assumptions: students’ expectations, institution’s expectations, and teachers’ perceptions of their roles as guided by their teaching perspectives. The study aims at identifying how those aspects shaped by ideological perspectives have influenced the interviewed teachers’ viewpoints about power dynamics inside the classroom.
Al-Azzam, BAKRI
The Hashemite University, Jordan
See Kharabsheh, Ala below.
Al-Hakbani, Abdul Aziz
Arab Open University, Riyadh, SA
Topic Area No: 4
Title of Presentation: Desires- Dreams- Decisions
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Mentioned supra is topic of the research paper. It would be based on "Reasons of Studying English Language and Literature ", though Arabic is highly developed classical language with all genres of literature available. Reasons English took the position of Lingua Franca for teaching advanced technology of Industries, Agriculture, economics and aesthetics.
AL-HAMMADI, FAYZA
King Faisal University, SA
Topic Area No: 3
Title of Presentation: Deverbalization, Intermediate Coding, and Translation Quality: An Exercise in Interpreter Training
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This paper is an exercise in interpreter training. It addresses the relevant cognitive factors that contribute to a better translation quality. Three training techniques will be compared in an experimental framework; the traditional approach, the deverablization approach, and the intermediate coding approach. 75 students studying for a B.A. in English will participate in the experiment. Each group of 25 trainees will receive a different treatment. There will be 10 training sessions, preceded by a pre-test and followed by a post-test. The quality of trainees translations will by evaluated by 5 expert juries, and results will be compared. Implications for interpreter training will be drawn.
Al-Jabr, Abdul-Fattah
Bahrain University, Bahrain
Topic Area No: 4
Title of Presentation: A Genre-Analysis Study of Academic Discourse: Implications for Teaching FL and Translation Skills.
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It seems that there is a lack of awareness of what distinguishes one genre of discourse from another. This, in turn, gives birth to producing texts which do not conform to similar texts of the same genre in rhetorical structure. This is quite evident in academic discourse. This article sets out to investigate the rhetorical structure of some abstracts and interlocutions of MA dissertations submitted to the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Bahrain. To this end, three abstracts and three introductions were analyzed with an eye to ascertaining whether or not they included the structural moves their respective genres typically have. The findings indicate that the texts under discussion deviate from their text-genre rhetorical structure. This study may, hopefully, yield some implications for teaching FL and translation skills, which concerned teachers can find useful for application in their classes and/or developing further research.
Al-Jallad, Nader
University of Jordan, Jordan
See Hamdan, Jihad below.
Al-Jarf, REIMA
King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Topic Area No: 3
Title of Presentation: Teaching Translation for Specific Purposes
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The presentation proposes a model for teaching translation to graduate students who are neither English major nor proficient in English. Types of texts, translation and teaching strategies used will be delineated. The effects of the proposed model on students' achievement and students' views on its effectiveness will be reported.
Al-Khader, MUTASEM
Al-Quds Open University, Palestine
Topic Area No: 4
Title of Presentation: “Christabel" Is a Complete Poem
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This paper is an attempt to understand and appreciate Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Christabel". The paper also seeks to present relevant arguments that prove that “Christabel" is a well-rounded poem, contrary to popular notions and views which maintain that is a fragment.
Al-Khatib, Hayat & Mehanna, Majida
Arab Open University, Lebanon
Topic Area No: 1
Title of Presentation: Bilingual Acquisition, Development and Performance
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The aim of the paper is to follow through contrastive linguistics studies on bilingual children. The study aims to probe beneath different perspectives to evaluate the conceptual frameworks associated with each and arrive at recommendations as regards research designs and implications for bilingual acquisition, development and performance (BADP). Contemporary research attempted to trace language acquisition, development and performance to account for the mental processes that are triggered through contact with language, the conception of language varieties and their underlying structures, favourable conditions that prompt language development, and factors that inhibit it. In the case of bilingual children, dealing with two languages, conditions of simultaneous or sequential acquisition, the existence of separate or fused compartmentalization and implications as regards theories on language and thought, interference and fossilization, threshold conditions, mechanisms of developmental interdependence, and the role of social and pragmatic influences are all powerful considerations that influence much of the practices in language teaching in general, and L2 acquisition in particular. We argue that future research on BADP combine quantitative and qualitative methods in order to account for the complexities of processes involving bilingual learners. We emphasize the need to focus on the interplay of the dynamics between thought and language, social context and pragmatics.
AL-Mosalami, Jehad
Al Quds Open University, Gaza, Palestine
Topic Area No: 1
Title of Presentation: Problems of Interpreting and Analyzing a Conversational Sub-Discourse of Surat Al-Baqara
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This paper is an analysis of the virtual conversation in the holy book, Quran, (Surat Al-Baqara, verses 30-35). I'll analyze the conversation from the perspectives of structure, coherence, ethnography, content and the speech acts that the interlocutors used to interpret the real world. The translation/interpretation problems will be highlighted.
Al-Rabai, Ali
Al al-Bayt University, Jordan
Topic Area NO: 5
Title of Presentation: Preparing Teachers for the Past
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This paper sheds light on the current English language Teacher preparation programs at Jordanian universities in an attempt to analyze program components, advantages and disadvantages. The paper hopes to investigate the appropriateness of these programs in light of the current changes and developments in the Ministry of education's plans for the future. The researcher believes that the current English language teacher programs are in no means compatible with the future plans and developments.
Al-Zumor, Abdul Wahed
Sanaa University, Yemen
Topic Area No: 1 & 2
Title of Presentation: Invitations Realization Patterns and Politeness in the English Interlanguage of Arabs
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Genuine invitations production by second language learners of English are the concern of this study. The subjects examined are Arabs learning and acquiring English in India. The learners’ interlanguage invitations are compared and contrasted against the performance of the same speech act by: a) native speakers of British English, b) native speakers of Arabic and c) Indian English users. The data is collected using multiple methods of data collection. The major findings of the study include: 1) Arab learners of English do not employ the same types of strategies for inviting their intimates and superiors, i.e. there is a tendency on the part of the learners to be more direct when they invite their close familiars than when they address their superiors, 2) the selection of strategies by Arab learners of English to realize the invitation speech act supports the argument that Arabic is positive politeness oriented. The study also suggests some pedagogical implications aiming at making learners effective communicators in the second language.
Asfour, Mohammad
Sharjah University, UAE
Topic Area No:5
Title of Presentation: The Influence of Translation on Arabic
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Translation from other, especially European, languages has not only enriched the vocabulary of Arabic in terms of loan and calque words and expressions in every field of human endeavor, it has also changed the very structure and morphology of the language. The Arabic language written today is increasingly sounding “foreign” to many of its classically-minded users.
Awad, Zahra Ahmad
University of Jordan, Jordan
Topic Area No: 5
Title of Presentation: Attitudes of EFL Teachers and Learners towards Introducing Multimedia to the Classroom
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This study investigates the difference between the attitudes of EFL teachers and learners towards introducing multimedia to the classroom. The participants in the study are Jordanian teachers and students in 100 public schools selected by the Ministry of Education for a pilot project of introducing computers to EFL classes. Results indicate significant differences between the attitudes of the EFL teachers and learners. Also, they show variations in the attitudes within the teachers group and within that of the learners.
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BAKIR, MURTADHA
University of Qatar, Qatar.
Topic Area No: 1.
Title of Presentation: On the Split CP-hypothesis
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The main concern of this paper is to investigate the adequacy of the split CP hypothesis in accounting for the various sentence types in English and Arabic. Luigi Rizzi and others, in a number of recent papers, have suggested that just as VP structures need to be split into more than one projection, CPs, which are the highest clause structure projections need to be split into various layers of different projections: force phrase, focus, phrase, topic phrase, etc. This was motivated by the wish to distinguish between different sentence types, and to adequately account for the movement of various elements to clause-initial positions. The paper attempts to see how such a hypothesis fares when projected on facts of clause structure in Iraqi Arabic, i.e. whether the prepositioning of elements to the beginning of the clause, or the difference in sentence types would warrant splitting the CP projection into various layers. The paper also tries, through a comparison between the two languages, to draw some conclusions about the adequacy of this hypothesis in accounting for facts about the syntax of human language.
BENAISSA, Fella
Institute Algerian of Petroleum, Algeria
Topic Area No: 5
Title of Presentation: Technical English Teaching: Case Study of the Algerian Petroleum Institute
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The purpose of this article is to present a feasible approach to the dilemma of having to cope with technical language in specific English teaching. Such a suggestion is determined by the motivation of ESP instructors to become competent in the subject content. For instance, Kennedy & Bolitho (1984) claimed that the most favorable methods should be based on semi-technical material and common core language, neither of which demanded too much experience in one particular area or discipline, but, quite the opposite, skilled handling of a middle academic ground in science and technology with which to operate in ESP courses.
Bouziri, Basma
Institut Supérieur des Langues de Tunis, Tunisia
Topic Area No: 5
Title of Presentation: EFL Teachers’ Attitudes towards Listening and its Teaching at the Tertiary Level in Tunisia
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This paper investigates listening teachers’ attitudes towards the teaching of listening at the tertiary level. An eclectic methodology is adopted based on quantitative and qualitative analyses as well as on the triangulation of several research instruments. The disclosure of the data indicates a product approach reflected in terms of three tendencies: the listening for speaking, the listening to develop listening skills, and the listening to understand.
Breem, Sami
Islamic University, Gaza, Palestine
Topic Area No: 4
Title of Presentation: An Exploration of the Text Worlds of R. M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island
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The paper aims to explore the text worlds of R. M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island. Drawing upon theories developed in the general field of cognitive stylistics (Werth 1999; Stockwell 2002; Gavins and Steen 2003), the work employs a text world theory framework to show how readers process and understand the different text worlds in The Coral Island. The analysis and conclusion show how the novel -in addition to being a popular Victorian island/adventure story- represents colonial values.
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Chakravarthy, Srinivasan
Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Topic Area No: 5
Title of Presentation: Developing Awareness for Evaluating Salience-Inclusion in Summary Protocols Using Computer-Generated Summaries
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The paper introduces a technique the presenter used in Yemeni and Omani institutions of higher learning for developing metacognitive-macrostructure-deriving processes for generating and evaluating summaries. It argues that summarizing requires goal-oriented heuristics, aimed at ‘salience perception’. It will demonstrate and discuss how differences between real-time summary-protocols and computational-models-generated ones, especially by Microsoft Office programme, can be used to sensitize students to the content and shape of goal-oriented summaries. This procedure helps students develop strategies for evaluating summaries.
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Dabbagh, Ula Kamel
Petra University, Jordan
Topic Area No: 3
Title of Presentation: The ‘Explicitation Hypothesis’ and Non-Professional Translators: A Case Study
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The ‘explicitation hypothesis’ formulated by Blum-Kulka (1986) assumes that professional and non-professional translators produce translated texts that are more explicit that the originals. This paper tries to test whether this hypothesis applies to the translations of non-professional translators by analyzing the work of fourth year students majoring in translation at Petra University. The analysis of the data supports the above-mentioned hypothesis since features representative of the ‘explicitation hypothesis’ have been identified.
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Elayyan, Hani ISMAIL
University of Jordan, Jordan
Topic Area NO: 2
Title of Presentation: Jordan from Right to Left: A Comparative Study of Al-Rai and Jordan Times Dailies
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This paper attempts a content analysis of one-month run of the two dailies above. It aims to explore the different audiences that are constructed by the two dailies and the impact of the language used on the newspapers' content and worldview.
Eliezer, John
Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Topic Area No: 1
Title of Presentation: Stress Patterns of Arabic Speakers of English in English Derivatives
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This paper investigates the nature of L2 grammars with reference to the stress patterns observed in Arabic speakers of English from an optimality theoretic perspective. In particular, it examines the stress patterns that appear in English derivatives in the speech of Arabic speakers of the language. It is found that stress placement system of Arabic speakers of English constitutes a unique system, distinct from both Arabic and English.
El-Inglizi, Najwa
Haigazian University, Lebanon
Topic Area NO: 4
Title of Presentation: The Gothic Matrix in Charles Maturin’s Melmoth & Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
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The paper will attempt to study possible relationships between the works of the above mentioned authors from the perspective of Gothic literature. It will study elements in relation to themes, character presentations, their interactions and the settings in which the action takes place. Through this analysis the paper hopes to demonstrate the possible common grounds for the psychological, religious, social and personal dilemmas that these authors engage with.
El-Massri, Nashaat & AL-Mossalami, JEHAD
Al-Quds Open University, Gaza, Palestine
Topic Area No: 3 & 5
Title of Presentation: Translation Difficulties that Face English Language Learners at Al-Quds Open University
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This study analyses the difficulties the English language learners face at Al-Quds Open University in Gaza Strip in 1st translation course by analyzing the final exam for the academic year 2005-2006. This study discusses the exam content analysis, the results of the tested skills and the learners’ points of strength and weakness.
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Fakhrel-Deen, Tarek Abdullah
Arab Open University, Kuwait
Topic Area No: 2
Title of Presentation: Shukrī’s England: An overview of English Images in selected works of Abdul-Rahman Shukrī
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The paper proposes to reveal some aspects of the descriptive, critical, and analytical reactions developed by this Arab poet and critic during his studies in England (1909-1912). It also aims at portraying the influence of the English experience on certain aspects of his letters, essays and poems within a cultural encounter context.
Fareh, Shehdeh
University of Sharjah, UAE
Topic Area No: 3
Title of Presentation: Some Textual Problems in Translating Arabic into English
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This study investigated some textual problems encountered in translating Arabic into English. The data were culled from official letters, memos, and meeting minutes in academic institutions. A number of problems including unparallel structures, referential versatility and lack of connectivity have been identified, and suggestions for handling such problems were proposed.
Farghal, Mohammed
Kuwait University, Kuwait
Topic Area No: 2
Title of Presentation: Accidental Humor in International Public Signs Displayed in English
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This paper examines accidental humor as it manifests itself in international public notices displayed in English translation. It shows that accidental humor, just like intentional humor, essentially stems from script opposition and script overlap (Raskin, 1985). However, it lacks intentionality, which plays a key role in contrived humor. In this way, accidental humor is based on the interaction between the text and the receiver, apart from the producer. In particular, accidental humor in interlingual communication is the output of the producer's language incompetence in the target language, whereas it is the result of the producer's landing in unintended ambiguity in intralingual communication. In such humor, therefore, the initiator infringes one or more maxims of conversation (Grice, 1975), unlike intentional humor, where the joke teller exploits conversational maxims for communicative purposes, in order to generate laughter.
Fattash, MAHER
An-Najah National Universitry, Nablus, Palestine
Topic Area No: 5
Title of Presentation: The Impact of Negative Cultural Materials on the Arab Students’ Attitude to English
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This paper attempts to establish a connection between the study of culture, as an empowering factor in language learning, and the students’ achievement and competency in English. It will try to find out if the absence of culture from the foreign language curriculum can debilitate the students’ competency and how much it contributes to their success in learning English. Moreover, it investigates some cultural aspects embodied in textbooks and find out if these cultural aspects are appropriate and relevant to the students’ culture and values or not. It discusses the place of culture in the teaching of ESL/EFL and then tries to answer the question why teach culture. It further discusses the students’ attitude to the foreign culture and what cultural aspects should be embodied in the students’ language curriculum. Finally, based on the whole discussion the paper provides a number of recommendations to students, teachers and curriculum designers.
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Hamdan, Jihad & Al-Jallad, Nader
University of Jordan, Jordan
Topic Area No: 5
Title of Presentation: The Semantics of –ship and –hood: A Foreign Language Leaner Perspective
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In this paper, we explore how Jordanian EFL learners at university level interact with –ship and –hood suffixed words since each is used with a group of nouns different from the other although some nouns take both suffixes with difference in meaning. We investigate the extent to which EFL learners would acquire the constraints on these suffixes, particularly in the absence of explicit teaching/learning materials. Our results are based on a multi-tasked questionnaire filled out by 100 fourth-year students at the Department of English at the University of Jordan.
Hamdi, Tahrir
Arab Open University, Jordan
Topic Area No: 4
Title of Presentation: A Political or Apolitical Literature?
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A popular literary argument circulating the literary circuit nowadays concerns the supposedly "apolitical" nature of literature. This view of literature and literary theory is particularly expounded in Western academic circles, which intentionally depoliticize the political, claiming that any "political" reading is propaganda, not scholarship. It will be argued that the "depoliticization" process is itself a political move at its core, as Edward Said explains in much of his work, especially in his book The World, The Text and The Critic. This research will examine when and why literature and literary theory become most significantly "political" or even "apolitical." This entails a close consideration of certain critical views and literatures arising in what has been called "crises cultures," in addition to a reconsideration of traditional "apolitical" readings of the works of English literary poets, such as William Blake and Percy Shelley.
HAMLAOUI, Naima
Annaba University, Algeria
Topic Area NO: 3
Title of Presentation: English-Arabic Translation Processes: A Think aloud Protocol Study
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The purpose of this paper is to report the data of an experiment carried out to investigate real-time translation processes. Using think-aloud method, we asked Algerian prospective translators to translate aloud from English into Arabic. The analysis of the tape-recorded protocols provided information about the translators’ processes of moving from the source language text to the target language text and the strategies resorted to when faced with a problem.
Hassina, Slimani
Badji Mokhtar University, Annaba, Algeria
Topic Area No: 3
Title of Presentation: Towards Students' Motivation
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The present study considers learners’ participation in understanding their errors as a means for raising their consciousness and consequently increasing their motivation, their skills and strategies they need in order to progress, and to tackle problems. The study is based on the analysis of short paragraphs written by EFL students we have involved in the identification of errors in their paragraphs. During the identification exercise the emphasis was on grammar and specific vocabulary since the objective was to raise their consciousness on errors. The goals were to have students’ notice the errors they made, explore new ways( mainly translation) to the correct form, and by so doing increase their motivation in learning.
HAYNES, LILITH
Harvard University, USA
Topic Area No: 4
Title of Presentation: In Diversity, Unity: Curricular Implications of the Common Reading
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This paper demonstrates how using a piece of written English as a ”Common Reading” for an entire student body can simultaneously serve numerous pedagogical and administrative objectives –- uniting students at different levels of proficiency in prolonged intellectual engagement with an issue of enduring importance, connecting and focusing the analysis of accompanying texts in various media, facilitating student transfers without loss of content, and fine-tuning diagnostic and post-instruction testing.
Hocine, Nacira
Badji Mokhtar University, Annaba, Algeria
Topic Area No 1
Title of Presentation: Complementation in English and Modern Standard Arabic: A Contrastive Study
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The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the correlation between syntax and semantics through examining complement-taking verbs and complement sentences in English and MSA. It further seeks to describe and analyze complement clause features in each L in order to delimit some idiosyncratic features in each L and show to what extent the two Ls are comparable. Semantic properties of complement-taking verbs are also analyzed and contrasted.
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Imssalem, NUWARA
Garyounis University, Libya
Topic Area NO: 4
Title of Presentation: Pedagogical Approach to the Teaching of Literature
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The aim of this paper is to argue the case for teaching literature pedagogically in order to promote language development and increase literary awareness. The paper suggests activities which require an interaction between the students and the literary text. At the end, a sample lesson using this approach is given.
IONESCU, VIOLETA
Irbid National University, Jordan
Topic Area No: 4
Title of Presentation: Mythical and Psychological Reverberations in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Novel The Last Tycoon
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The current paper explores Fitzgerald’s way of using mythology and psychology to construct his major characters in one of the most impressive novels: The Last Tycoon (1941), work which contributed to his modernist reputation. The focus will be on the mythic qualities in Fitzgerald’s novel and also on the development of Fitzgerald’s heroes as mythical archetypes of the American consciousness both, individual, and collective. In spite of criticism on the above writer, as interpreter of mythic dimensions, most of critical assertions remain either too limited or too general when the reference is to The Last Tycoon, Fitzgerald’s last and unfinished novel.
Ismael, MUNEER FATHI
Al-Quds Open University, Palestine
Topic Area No: 5
Title of the presentation: L1 Interference in Learning English by Native Speakers of Arabic
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The major objective of this study is to establish the. The study also highlights some communicative problems which Arab EFL learners encounter, discusses their causes and their educational implications and makes recommendations to minimize such problems. Furthermore, the paper suggests some strategies that purport to upgrade the learners’ communicative competence.
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Kattan, Jeanne
Bethlehem University, Palestine
Topic Area No: 3
Title of Presentation: The Use of English Language Learning Strategies at University Level
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Oxford (1990) states that strategies are important for language learning because they are the tools for active, self-directed involvement, which is essential for developing communicative competence. To confirm this claim a case study where 3rd year English majors were trained to use language learning strategies will be described. This will include the methods used, the challenges that were encountered, and the outcomes of the training.
