The study reviews Eldon Rutter's book "the two cities of Arabia" and makes a textual analysis of ... more The study reviews Eldon Rutter's book "the two cities of Arabia" and makes a textual analysis of selected excerpts. Rutter's book has long been praised for its objective tone in dealing with Islam and reporting on the religious rituals he witnessed and participated in while he was visiting Mecca in disguise as a Muslim pilgrim in the early 20 th century. This study argues that while Rutter's account does not seem to be biased against the Arabs and Muslims, there are certain instances of latent orientalism throughout his account. Said's Orientalism and Spivak's Subaltern are the main theoretical concepts against which the analysis and discussion are carried out. The study then compares between Rutter's orientalism and present-day orientalism in dealing with the image of Arabs and Muslims in the media.
... He studied in AL Page 3. Copyright Antar Solhy Abdellah 2002 3 Azhar and had bond relationshi... more ... He studied in AL Page 3. Copyright Antar Solhy Abdellah 2002 3 Azhar and had bond relationships with Imam Mohammad Abdo, and Saad Zaghlol. ... so generous , and all his mind, money and love were devoted to his family , nationality and humanity (Al Zayat, 1970:6) ...
Egyptian English majors in the faculty of Education, South Valley university tend to mistranslate... more Egyptian English majors in the faculty of Education, South Valley university tend to mistranslate the plural inanimate Arabic pronoun with the singular inanimate English pronoun. A diagnostic test was designed to analyze this error. Results showed that a large number of students (first year and fourth year students) make this error, that the error becomes more common if the pronoun is cataphori rather than anaphori, and that the further the pronoun is from its antecedent the more students are apt to make the error. On the basis of these results, sources of the error are identified and remedial procedures are suggested.
And recite (and teach) what has been revealed to thee of the Book of thy Lord: None can change Hi... more And recite (and teach) what has been revealed to thee of the Book of thy Lord: None can change His Words, and none wilt thou find as a refuge other than Him. (18.27) translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1954) , first number on the left is the number of the Sura, followed by the number of the verse, and the then the name of the Sura in Arabic.
Middle Eastern Journal of Research in Education and Social Sciences
Purpose: The present study seeks to undertake a discourse analysis of the Islamic Declaration on ... more Purpose: The present study seeks to undertake a discourse analysis of the Islamic Declaration on Climate Change using Carvalho’s (2000) model of ideological discourse analysis. Approach/Methodology/Design: Two stages of the analysis were carried out: textual and contextual analysis. A corpus of 15 newspapers and media websites was developed out of 85 results attained by Factiva to undertake the contextual analysis. Findings: The results showed that the Islamic Declaration on climate change represents a critical moment in the history of caring for the environment in the Muslim world, that it represents mainstream Islam and common Muslim concern and not any single political or national agenda, that it bases its argument deeply on the Islamic faith represented in the scriptural texts, and that it has a potential influence both materially through policymakers and spiritually through changing peoples’ attitudes. Combined with other religious statements on climate change, the message of r...
This book includes case study research papers on translation and translation pedagogy. Part one h... more This book includes case study research papers on translation and translation pedagogy. Part one handles Problems of identifying the needed skills for novice translators, problems of rendering implicatures in translating literary texts, and problems of translating the labels of linguistic terminology. The second part of the book presents case study research papers on educational issues in translation; a survey of the strategies employed by university students in studying translation and of the teaching techniques used by university instructors in training students on translation, an analysis of EFL university students' errors in translating Arabic referential pronouns, and using visual translation to enhance listening comprehension of literary texts for EFL university students. Combing sound research with state-of-the-art practice, this book is widely applicable for EFL and translation programs around the world.
Translation has been studied from different perspectives and has long been a core issue for most ... more Translation has been studied from different perspectives and has long been a core issue for most sciences from Linguistics, to literature and from Philosophy to Politics. Pedagogies of translation however stayed behind. The study of the relation between Education and translation, how to teach translation, how to deskill translation, how to test translation and how to design translation courses did not have the due attention. Reasons for this may include the dominance of linguistic study, and the less attention paid to translation study by educationalists who focus mainly on language instruction as a whole rather than on a certain complicated skill like translation. In this book, Antar Abdellah reviews the place of translation with regard to Education, the common issues in translation pedagogy; defining, teaching, testing translation, and designing translation training programmes. He reviews the literature on pedagogies of translation in each of these aspects and proposes a new model...
Background: Patients prefer treatments that are safe, curative and cheap. Integrative medicine (I... more Background: Patients prefer treatments that are safe, curative and cheap. Integrative medicine (IM) gathers the best of modern medicine and other types of human medicine e.g. prophetic medicine and others. College of Medicine at Taibah University (CMTU, Saudi Arabia) is the first pioneering medical school in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East in introducing IM education. Patients' needs to IM increase in case of treatment failure e.g. cancer patients who can't afford chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Unfortunately, lack of teaching IM at medical schools deprives both physicians and patients from many therapeutic benefits e.g. Al-hijamah (wet cupping therapy of prophetic medicine), nigella sativa and others depriving. Objectives: to investigate medical students' satisfaction with IM medical education for better health benefits. Design: A prospective cross-sectional study. Settings: College of Medicine at Taibah University (CMTU, Saudi Arabia). Subjects and Methods: CMTU introd...
Subtitling or captioning the dialogues of English movies can be very helpful to EFL learners in t... more Subtitling or captioning the dialogues of English movies can be very helpful to EFL learners in the Arab world. The present study reviews the importance of subtitling for language learning in general and listening comprehension in particular. A comparison is made between different levels of listening comprehension and different genres of English literary movies; classic, modern literary and contemporary. The sample consists of 100 randomly chosen third year English Majors of the faculty of Education. Students were divided into a control and an experimental groups. Results of the study showed a significant difference between the performance of the experimental group students’ and those of the control group in the listening comprehension test.
The present study attempts to investigate the nature of the work of the forensic linguist to find... more The present study attempts to investigate the nature of the work of the forensic linguist to find out the procedural methods used to attribute authorship of texts to their potential owners. The aim is to examine the aspects of the linguistic theory on which the work of the forensic linguist depends, and upon which he may base his assumptions and then verify their validity. To achieve this, the study follows the narrative analysis method, one of the methods of qualitative approach in humanities, which depends on the analysis of the text and tracing the human experience of the forensic linguist in his work and obstacles he encountered. The study deals with three famous cases that occupied the Western judiciary for a period of time. The first is the issue of doubt in the statement of the culprit known as the case of Derek Bentley in Britain, the issue of comparing manuscripts known as the Unabomber, and the issue attributing part of a text to one of its co-authors. It is hoped that the...
Eye fixation is a frequent problem that faces foreign language learners and hinders the flow of t... more Eye fixation is a frequent problem that faces foreign language learners and hinders the flow of their reading comprehension. Although students are usually advised to read fast/skim to overcome this problem, eye fixation persists. The present study investigates the effect of using a paper-based program as compared to a computer-based software in speed reading on enhancing EFL majors' reading comprehension. 75 students of the primary division in the faculty of Education were randomly distributed into a control group (25), experimental group A (25), and experimental group B (25). Results of the study showed that students who were trained using the paper-based program scored significantly higher and achieved faster reading comprehension than those who were trained using the speed reading software. Discussion and interpretations of results are presented. PROBLEM OF THE STUDY: Students in the primary education division, English section, in faculties of education lack the skills needed for fast reading comprehension. They practice bad reading habits including; eye fixation, synchronizing their eye movement with their lip movement in reading and pinpointing the lexical items in a reading passage while reading. In order to solve this problem two different techniques for training on speed reading are examined.
Arabic Linguistics has been a full-fledged descriptive science for a long time. However modern Li... more Arabic Linguistics has been a full-fledged descriptive science for a long time. However modern Linguistics, as a distinct empirical science, entailed that Arab linguists review their methods of dealing with the linguistic phenomenon. One of the major challenges for this new approach was to create equivalent genuine Arabic terms in modern linguistic terminology. Transliteration is not always recommended as a straightforward strategy, and Arab linguists seek to use linguistic terms that represent the long history of Linguistic research in the Arab culture. The present paper deals with the strategies used for translating major linguistic terms into Arabic and investigates problems involved in this process.
Saudi English majors’ level in reading achievement has been reported to be of low quality. Lack o... more Saudi English majors’ level in reading achievement has been reported to be of low quality. Lack of extensive reading materials at the secondary stage is assumed to be one reason behind this low level. As a remedial treatment, the study proposes an extensive reading program composed of 90 simplified supplementary materials (each student should finish at least 10 of these by the end of the program). A list of performance standards in reading is developed and a standard-based test in reading is administered to measure the effectiveness of the proposed program in extensive reading. Students (n = 100) were treated as a control and an experimental group, both registered at the reading course in Taibah University. The control group studied the normal reading course without submission to any experimental treatment, while the experimental group was treated by the proposed program. Results showed that reading extensively (mostly fiction) had a positive effect on students’ skills in other nonf...
Hajj guides in the second holy city in Islam deal with some million visitors and pilgrims to the ... more Hajj guides in the second holy city in Islam deal with some million visitors and pilgrims to the holy Prophet’s mosque. Although they are well trained in terms of hospitality and guidance, they seem to lack the basic communication skills in English. As most of the visitors and pilgrims resort to English as an international language, the need arises for developing a systemic ESP course for these Hajj guides. This study assesses the English language needs of these guides. Data gathering methods- including a questionnaire, a proficiency test and unstructured interviews – allowed testing of the questions via triangulation to validate the results.
The study reviews Eldon Rutter's book "the two cities of Arabia" and makes a textual analysis of ... more The study reviews Eldon Rutter's book "the two cities of Arabia" and makes a textual analysis of selected excerpts. Rutter's book has long been praised for its objective tone in dealing with Islam and reporting on the religious rituals he witnessed and participated in while he was visiting Mecca in disguise as a Muslim pilgrim in the early 20 th century. This study argues that while Rutter's account does not seem to be biased against the Arabs and Muslims, there are certain instances of latent orientalism throughout his account. Said's Orientalism and Spivak's Subaltern are the main theoretical concepts against which the analysis and discussion are carried out. The study then compares between Rutter's orientalism and present-day orientalism in dealing with the image of Arabs and Muslims in the media.
... He studied in AL Page 3. Copyright Antar Solhy Abdellah 2002 3 Azhar and had bond relationshi... more ... He studied in AL Page 3. Copyright Antar Solhy Abdellah 2002 3 Azhar and had bond relationships with Imam Mohammad Abdo, and Saad Zaghlol. ... so generous , and all his mind, money and love were devoted to his family , nationality and humanity (Al Zayat, 1970:6) ...
Egyptian English majors in the faculty of Education, South Valley university tend to mistranslate... more Egyptian English majors in the faculty of Education, South Valley university tend to mistranslate the plural inanimate Arabic pronoun with the singular inanimate English pronoun. A diagnostic test was designed to analyze this error. Results showed that a large number of students (first year and fourth year students) make this error, that the error becomes more common if the pronoun is cataphori rather than anaphori, and that the further the pronoun is from its antecedent the more students are apt to make the error. On the basis of these results, sources of the error are identified and remedial procedures are suggested.
And recite (and teach) what has been revealed to thee of the Book of thy Lord: None can change Hi... more And recite (and teach) what has been revealed to thee of the Book of thy Lord: None can change His Words, and none wilt thou find as a refuge other than Him. (18.27) translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1954) , first number on the left is the number of the Sura, followed by the number of the verse, and the then the name of the Sura in Arabic.
Middle Eastern Journal of Research in Education and Social Sciences
Purpose: The present study seeks to undertake a discourse analysis of the Islamic Declaration on ... more Purpose: The present study seeks to undertake a discourse analysis of the Islamic Declaration on Climate Change using Carvalho’s (2000) model of ideological discourse analysis. Approach/Methodology/Design: Two stages of the analysis were carried out: textual and contextual analysis. A corpus of 15 newspapers and media websites was developed out of 85 results attained by Factiva to undertake the contextual analysis. Findings: The results showed that the Islamic Declaration on climate change represents a critical moment in the history of caring for the environment in the Muslim world, that it represents mainstream Islam and common Muslim concern and not any single political or national agenda, that it bases its argument deeply on the Islamic faith represented in the scriptural texts, and that it has a potential influence both materially through policymakers and spiritually through changing peoples’ attitudes. Combined with other religious statements on climate change, the message of r...
This book includes case study research papers on translation and translation pedagogy. Part one h... more This book includes case study research papers on translation and translation pedagogy. Part one handles Problems of identifying the needed skills for novice translators, problems of rendering implicatures in translating literary texts, and problems of translating the labels of linguistic terminology. The second part of the book presents case study research papers on educational issues in translation; a survey of the strategies employed by university students in studying translation and of the teaching techniques used by university instructors in training students on translation, an analysis of EFL university students' errors in translating Arabic referential pronouns, and using visual translation to enhance listening comprehension of literary texts for EFL university students. Combing sound research with state-of-the-art practice, this book is widely applicable for EFL and translation programs around the world.
Translation has been studied from different perspectives and has long been a core issue for most ... more Translation has been studied from different perspectives and has long been a core issue for most sciences from Linguistics, to literature and from Philosophy to Politics. Pedagogies of translation however stayed behind. The study of the relation between Education and translation, how to teach translation, how to deskill translation, how to test translation and how to design translation courses did not have the due attention. Reasons for this may include the dominance of linguistic study, and the less attention paid to translation study by educationalists who focus mainly on language instruction as a whole rather than on a certain complicated skill like translation. In this book, Antar Abdellah reviews the place of translation with regard to Education, the common issues in translation pedagogy; defining, teaching, testing translation, and designing translation training programmes. He reviews the literature on pedagogies of translation in each of these aspects and proposes a new model...
Background: Patients prefer treatments that are safe, curative and cheap. Integrative medicine (I... more Background: Patients prefer treatments that are safe, curative and cheap. Integrative medicine (IM) gathers the best of modern medicine and other types of human medicine e.g. prophetic medicine and others. College of Medicine at Taibah University (CMTU, Saudi Arabia) is the first pioneering medical school in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East in introducing IM education. Patients' needs to IM increase in case of treatment failure e.g. cancer patients who can't afford chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Unfortunately, lack of teaching IM at medical schools deprives both physicians and patients from many therapeutic benefits e.g. Al-hijamah (wet cupping therapy of prophetic medicine), nigella sativa and others depriving. Objectives: to investigate medical students' satisfaction with IM medical education for better health benefits. Design: A prospective cross-sectional study. Settings: College of Medicine at Taibah University (CMTU, Saudi Arabia). Subjects and Methods: CMTU introd...
Subtitling or captioning the dialogues of English movies can be very helpful to EFL learners in t... more Subtitling or captioning the dialogues of English movies can be very helpful to EFL learners in the Arab world. The present study reviews the importance of subtitling for language learning in general and listening comprehension in particular. A comparison is made between different levels of listening comprehension and different genres of English literary movies; classic, modern literary and contemporary. The sample consists of 100 randomly chosen third year English Majors of the faculty of Education. Students were divided into a control and an experimental groups. Results of the study showed a significant difference between the performance of the experimental group students’ and those of the control group in the listening comprehension test.
The present study attempts to investigate the nature of the work of the forensic linguist to find... more The present study attempts to investigate the nature of the work of the forensic linguist to find out the procedural methods used to attribute authorship of texts to their potential owners. The aim is to examine the aspects of the linguistic theory on which the work of the forensic linguist depends, and upon which he may base his assumptions and then verify their validity. To achieve this, the study follows the narrative analysis method, one of the methods of qualitative approach in humanities, which depends on the analysis of the text and tracing the human experience of the forensic linguist in his work and obstacles he encountered. The study deals with three famous cases that occupied the Western judiciary for a period of time. The first is the issue of doubt in the statement of the culprit known as the case of Derek Bentley in Britain, the issue of comparing manuscripts known as the Unabomber, and the issue attributing part of a text to one of its co-authors. It is hoped that the...
Eye fixation is a frequent problem that faces foreign language learners and hinders the flow of t... more Eye fixation is a frequent problem that faces foreign language learners and hinders the flow of their reading comprehension. Although students are usually advised to read fast/skim to overcome this problem, eye fixation persists. The present study investigates the effect of using a paper-based program as compared to a computer-based software in speed reading on enhancing EFL majors' reading comprehension. 75 students of the primary division in the faculty of Education were randomly distributed into a control group (25), experimental group A (25), and experimental group B (25). Results of the study showed that students who were trained using the paper-based program scored significantly higher and achieved faster reading comprehension than those who were trained using the speed reading software. Discussion and interpretations of results are presented. PROBLEM OF THE STUDY: Students in the primary education division, English section, in faculties of education lack the skills needed for fast reading comprehension. They practice bad reading habits including; eye fixation, synchronizing their eye movement with their lip movement in reading and pinpointing the lexical items in a reading passage while reading. In order to solve this problem two different techniques for training on speed reading are examined.
Arabic Linguistics has been a full-fledged descriptive science for a long time. However modern Li... more Arabic Linguistics has been a full-fledged descriptive science for a long time. However modern Linguistics, as a distinct empirical science, entailed that Arab linguists review their methods of dealing with the linguistic phenomenon. One of the major challenges for this new approach was to create equivalent genuine Arabic terms in modern linguistic terminology. Transliteration is not always recommended as a straightforward strategy, and Arab linguists seek to use linguistic terms that represent the long history of Linguistic research in the Arab culture. The present paper deals with the strategies used for translating major linguistic terms into Arabic and investigates problems involved in this process.
Saudi English majors’ level in reading achievement has been reported to be of low quality. Lack o... more Saudi English majors’ level in reading achievement has been reported to be of low quality. Lack of extensive reading materials at the secondary stage is assumed to be one reason behind this low level. As a remedial treatment, the study proposes an extensive reading program composed of 90 simplified supplementary materials (each student should finish at least 10 of these by the end of the program). A list of performance standards in reading is developed and a standard-based test in reading is administered to measure the effectiveness of the proposed program in extensive reading. Students (n = 100) were treated as a control and an experimental group, both registered at the reading course in Taibah University. The control group studied the normal reading course without submission to any experimental treatment, while the experimental group was treated by the proposed program. Results showed that reading extensively (mostly fiction) had a positive effect on students’ skills in other nonf...
Hajj guides in the second holy city in Islam deal with some million visitors and pilgrims to the ... more Hajj guides in the second holy city in Islam deal with some million visitors and pilgrims to the holy Prophet’s mosque. Although they are well trained in terms of hospitality and guidance, they seem to lack the basic communication skills in English. As most of the visitors and pilgrims resort to English as an international language, the need arises for developing a systemic ESP course for these Hajj guides. This study assesses the English language needs of these guides. Data gathering methods- including a questionnaire, a proficiency test and unstructured interviews – allowed testing of the questions via triangulation to validate the results.
Research into reading in English as a second or a foreign language ( Lewkowicz 1988has shown that... more Research into reading in English as a second or a foreign language ( Lewkowicz 1988has shown that reading is not the step by step process of building up letters into words , relating written words to their spoken equivalents , joining words to form sentences. On the contrary, reading is a highly complex interaction between a reader and a text , in which the reader makes sense of the text using both textual and non-textual clues. Reading is, in Goodman's words, "a psychological guessing game. It involves an interaction between thought and language" (1967:127) Reading is an interactive skill. In this respect, the mental processes involved are similar to those employed while listening. In both, the students are engaged in decoding a message rather than encoding. Both require more than just a passive knowledge of the vocabulary and structure of the language. Reading, however, employs the visual sense while listening utilizes the auditory sense. (Grant, 1994) On the other hand, believes that meaning cannot be passively absorbed.
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