TIME

Session

ROOM

CHAIR, SPEAKERS & PRESENTATION TITLE

9:00-

10:40

1/A

LING.

ROOM 1

FARGHAL, MOHAMMED (CHAIR)

- Al-Khatib, Hayat & Mehanna, Majida. Bilingual Acquisition, Development and Performance

- Shehadeh, Adnan & Dwaik, Raghad. The Influence of the Starting Age on the Learners’ Achievement in EFL: Myth versus Reality

- Al-Hakbani, Abdul Aziz. Desires- Dreams- Decisions

- Taha, Fayez. Cross-Cultural Paralinguistic Features

1/B

LIT.

ROOM 2

HAMDI, TAHRIR (CHAIR)

- Oueijan, Naji : The Light of the Orient

- Abu-Baker, Mohamed: Constructing the East: Travel Narratives in Early Modern  England and the Politics of Representation

- Kharbutli, Mahmoud. The Implications of Bakhtin's Theory on the Novel

10:40

COFFEE BREAK 

11:00-

12:40

2/A

TRANS

ROOM 1

SHUNNAQ, ABDALLAH (CHAIR)

- Fareh, Shehdeh: Some Textual Problems in Translating Arabic into English

-El-Massri, Nashaat & Al-Mossalami, J.: Translation Difficulties that Face English Language Learners at Al-Quds Open University

-Hamlaoui, Naima: English-Arabic Translation Processes: A Think aloud Protocol Study

- Kharabsheh, Aladdin & Bakri Al-Azzam. The Translation of Paradoxical-Lexical Words in The Quran: Equivalence at the Micro Level

2/B

 LIT.

ROOM 2

ASFOUR, MOHAMMED (CHAIR)

- Maalouf-Alfy, May. Romantic Anxiety towards Hybridity in Lord Byron's "The Island"

- Quawas, Rula. Margaret Fuller: A Bearer of the Living Word and an Unflinching Witness for Truth

- El-Inglizi, Najwa: Gothic matrix in CharlesMaturins’s Melmoth and Mary shelley’s Frankenstein   

- Sultan, Sabbar : Criticism vs. Life: F. R. Leavis's Example

13:00

GENERAL Assembly  MEETING ( R1) 

14:00

LUNCH …. RH 

TIME

Session

ROOM

CHAIR, SPEAKERS & PRESENTATION TITLE

15-00-

16:40

3/A

TEFL

Room 1

KHALI, AZIZ  (CHAIR)

- Al-Rabai, Ali. Preparing Teachers for the Past

- Awad, Zahra Ahmad. Attitudes of EFL Teachers and Learners towards Introducing Multimedia to the Classroom

- Bouziri, Basma. EFL Teachers’ Attitudes towards Listening and its Teaching at the Tertiary Level in Tunisia

- Samarrai, Ghanim. Impact of Cultural Identity on English Language Learning at Arab Universities

 3/B

LIT.

ROOM 2

Quawwas, RULA (CHAIR)

- Mumayiz, Ibrahim. Shakespeare as the Ideal Representative of the Renaissance Spirit

- Omar, Al-Assad. Romance and Reality in Joyce Cary’s Mister Johnson  and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart .

-Abbas, Mohsen: Misrepresentation of the African in Joyce Cary’s Novel Mistre Johnson

- Breem, Sami: An Exploration of the Text Worlds of R. M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island

16:40

COFFEE BREAK 

17:00-

19:15

4/A

TRANS

ROOM 1

TUSHYEH, HANNA (CHAIR)

-Al-Hammadi, Fayza: Deverbalization, Intermediate Coding, and Translation Quality: An Exercise in Interpreter Training

- Dabbagh, Ula Kamel. The ‘Explicitation Hypothesis’ and Non-Professional Translators: A Case Study

- Rishmawi, George. The Role of Function(s) of Interpreting in the BA/MA Programs in Translation

--Abderrahman, Wajih.. The Role of Arabic Derivation in Translating English Collocations

- AL-Mosalami, Jehad. Problems of Interpreting and Analyzing a Conversational Sub-Discourse of Surat Al-Baqara

4/B

COMP LIT.

ROOM 2

OUEIJAN, NAJI (CHAIR)

-  Sakr, Rita. Rashid AL-Daif and the Surrealist Movement

- McDonald, John. Joyce and Mahfouz: Fragmentation and the Feminine

- Muqattash, Rima. English Romantic Images of Woman in the Poems of Jeryis Samawi

-  Fakhrel-Deen, Tarek Abdullah. Shukrī’s England: An overview of English Images in selected works of Abdul-Rahman Shukrī

- Khawaldeh, Samira. Dialogism in al-Mutanabbi's "The Bawwan Valley" and Frost's "Stopping by the Woods"

20:00

FREE EVENING 

TIME

SESSION

PLACE

CHAIR, SPEAKERS & PRESENTATION TITLE

9:00-

10:00

OPENING

CEREMONY

R1

- Apetau President

- JU Dean of Faculty of Arts

- JU President

10:00-

11:40

5/A

TRANS.

Room 1

AL-SALMAN, SALEH (CHAIR)

- Asfour, Mohammad: The Influence of Translation on Arabic

-  Shunnaq, Abdullah. Difficulties of Sight Interpreting of Islamic Court Texts from Arabic into English

- Al-Jabr, Abdul-Fattah. A Genre-Analysis Study of Academic Discourse: Implications for Teaching FL and Translation

5/B

LING

ROOM 2

ABUHAMDIA, ZAKARIA (CHAIR)

- Farghal, Mohammed: Accidental Humor in International Public Signs Displayed in English

- Shokr, Mohamed. Deixis and the Ambiguity of Poetic Persona….

- Potter, Martin. The Division between Truth and Meaning in Modern Theory of Language and Culture

- Hamdan, Jihad & Al-Jallad, Nader: The Semantics of –ship and –hood: A Foreign Language Leaner Perspective

5/C

EFL

ROOM 3

AL-KHANJI, RAJAI (CHAIR).

- Khalil, Aziz. Assessment of Language Learning Strategies Used by Palestinian EFL Learners

- Kattan, Jeanne. The Use of English Language Learning Strategies at University Level

- Al-Azab, Gihan Sidky. The Power Game: Ideological Beliefs and their Influence on Teachers’ Perceptions of their Roles in a Classroom Setting

- Abbas, Insaf. English Language Teacher Training in Palestine: What is and what will be.

11:40

COFFEE   BREAK

12:00-

13:40

6/A

TEFL

ROOM 1

RAMMAL, SAMIR (CHAIR)

- Benaissa, Fella. Technical English Teaching: Case Study of the Algerian Petroleum Institute

- Mahmoud, Ahmed Awad. The Effect of Using ‘Story Grammars, the Whole Language Teaching, on the Students’ Achievement in EFL

-  Mukattash, Lewis . Language Corpora in Foreign Language Education

- Al-Jarf, Reima. Teaching Translation for Specific Purposes

6/B

LIT

ROOM 2

MAALOUF, MAY (CHAIR)

- Abou El Naga, Sheereen : Women Crossing Borders of Experience

-Obeidat, Marwan : Cultures and the Question of Cross-Cultural Misunderstanding

-Hamdi, Tahrir: A Political or Apolitical Literature?

6/C

LING

ROOM 3

NOOR, HASHIM (CHAIR)

-  Abdelali, Fatima. The Comma: a Feature of Cohesion and Coherence?

- Elayyan, Hani Ismail. Jordan from Right to Left: A Comparative Study of Al-Rai and Jordan Times Dailies

- Khleifat, Muna, The Influence of Religious Affiliation on Speech

- Al-Zumor, Abdul Wahed. Invitations Realization Patterns and Politeness in the English Interlanguage of Arabs

14:00

LUNCH

JU restaurants…… courtesy of the University of Jordan 

TIME

SESSION

ROOM

CHAIR, SPEAKERS & PRESENTATION TITLES

15:00-

16:40

7/A 

EFL

ROOM 1

SHEHADEH, ALI  (CHAIR)

- Al-Abed Al-Haq, Fawwaz. The Significance of Cultural Dimension in Foreign Language Training

- Seddiki, Naima. Developing strategic and analytical thinking in a British history course

- Haynes, Lilith. In Diversity, Unity: Curricular Implications of the Common Reading

- Rammal, Samir. The Other Side of the Mirror: ESL/EFL Students Offer Their Opinions of Good Language Teaching

7/B 

LING.

ROOM 2

AL-KHATIB  , HAYAT (CHAIR)

- Abdel-Fattah, Mahmoud. Arabic-Hebrew Language-Switching and Cultural Alienation

- Sallo, Ibrahim. A Sociolinguistic Study of Kurdish-Arabic/English Code-switching

- Tushyeh, Hanna. Language and Identity in Bethlehem

- Hocine, Nacira. Complementation in English and Modern Standard Arabic: A Contrastive Study

 7/C 

LIT

ROOM 3

 SHEREEN ABOU EL NAGA  (CHAIR)

-Shihada, Isam. Representation of the Other in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre with reference to Bertha Mason

- Al-Khader, Mutasem. “Christabel" Is a Complete Poem

- Ionescu, Violeta. Mythical and Psychological Reverberations in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Novel The Last Tycoon

- Imssalem, Nuwara. Pedagogical Approach to the Teaching of Literature

16:40

COFFEE BREAK

17:00-

19:15

8/A 

efl

ROOM 1

KATTAN, Jeanne  (CHAIR)

- Marashdeh, Wasef. TEFL In Web-Based Teaching

- Chakravarthy, Srinivasan. Developing Awareness for Evaluating Salience-Inclusion in Summary Protocols Using Computer-Generated Summaries

- Larouz, Mohammed. Why are Arab learners of English ‘good’ readers but ‘poor’ writers?

- Hassina, Slimani. Towards Students' Motivation

- Raddawi, Rana. The Role of L1 in L2 Teaching: A Web Based Communication Process

8/B  LING.

ROOM 2

AL-JERF, REIMA (CHAIR)

- Abu Naba'h, Abdalla. An Analysis of Lexical errors Made by In-service English Language Teachers in Jordan

-Noor, Hashim. Does Knowing the L2 Affect the Use of the L1?

- Shehadeh, Ali: Learner Output And Language learning and Teaching

-Ismael, Muneer Fathi. L1 Interference in Learning English by Native Speakers of Arabic

- Fattash, Maher. The Impact of Negative Cultural Materials on the Arab Students’ Attitude to English

19:30

- Bus leaves for hotel

- Free Evening