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The Influence Of The Low Variety In Advertisements: The Saudi Context, Yasir Zayed Alasiri
The Influence Of The Low Variety In Advertisements: The Saudi Context, Yasir Zayed Alasiri
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
This study aims to investigate the psychological impact of the Saudi low variety (henceforth, it will be referred to as SLV') in enticing prospective customers to their commercial products or services. It proceeds from a premise that the marketing messages employed by business providers massively influences our opinions about a product or a business establishment. In order to validate such a view, 80 native speakers of SLV, representing 2 groups of simple (regular consumers) and stratified (advertisers) samplings, participated in the study. Each group consisted of 40 subjects. They were requested to fill out a questionnaire that included two questions; …
Factors Affecting Students' Readiness For Flipped Learning: An Innovative Approach, Abdulhameed R. Alenezi
Factors Affecting Students' Readiness For Flipped Learning: An Innovative Approach, Abdulhameed R. Alenezi
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
This research aims to investigate factors that affect students' readiness for a flipped learning approach in blended courses. For this purpose, the research has proposed an extensive model to examine the critical factors that could influence students' readiness for flipped learning, namely technology self-efficacy, course design, learning flexibility, learning management, online interaction and online environment. Moreover, the moderating role of motivation in affecting the relationship between flipped learning readiness and both learning flexibility and learning management has been examined. A quantitative method was adopted, and 240 valid respondents were obtained and utilised for the data analysis. Both structural and measurement …
Educational Robots And Creative Thinking Skills, Renad M. Alrobia, Nada J. Alsaleh
Educational Robots And Creative Thinking Skills, Renad M. Alrobia, Nada J. Alsaleh
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
This research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of using educational robots in extra-curricular projects to enhance creative thinking skills among students. To achieve this aim, a semi-experimental approach was followed, which involved training students to design and program an educational robot and use different cognitive skills derived from all their academic courses to solve a problem. The research sample consisted of (16) students in the fifth grade of Smart Learning Primary School. They were randomly divided into two equal groups: a control group and an experimental group. The Torrance Test of Creative Thinking, form (B), was used as a tool …
Writer-Reader Interaction: Investigating Interactional Metadiscourse In Advertisements From Arab Universities, Aisha Saadi Al-Subhi
Writer-Reader Interaction: Investigating Interactional Metadiscourse In Advertisements From Arab Universities, Aisha Saadi Al-Subhi
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
Nowadays, universities heavily rely on digital marketing and social media to recruit more students and to generate interest in their schools. Digital marketing and online advertising constitute a kind of interaction between writers and their potential readers. This paper explores how such an interaction is achieved by investigating a wide range of linguistic resources that writers use to express their stance toward the content in the text and toward the reader. A corpus of 80 academic advertisements from 38 universities, totaling approximately 2,118 words, was compiled and analyzed using Hyland’s (2005b) interactional metadiscourse. The corpus was searched manually for all …
Saudis' Attitudes Towards Their Dialects: A Keyword Technique, Laila Mobarak Alhazmi, Hanady Abdulaziz Alfalig
Saudis' Attitudes Towards Their Dialects: A Keyword Technique, Laila Mobarak Alhazmi, Hanady Abdulaziz Alfalig
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
Language attitude research uncovers perceptions about the diversity of languages and dialects. It follows how such diversity is stereotypically perceived, which influences the usage of dialects among people. Therefore, diverse contexts, such as Saudi Arabia, necessitate research attention to reveal how stereotypes Saudis hold towards their dialects might affect their usage. Little research has focused on the broad language attitudes in Saudi Arabia, and none of the previous studies have identified the major language attitudes in the region using keyword technique. Using an open-ended questionnaire, the present study identifies the major attitudes regarding the main dialects in the country: Central, …
Online Teachers: Stepping Out Of The Comfort Zone Is A Must, Amina Abdelhadi
Online Teachers: Stepping Out Of The Comfort Zone Is A Must, Amina Abdelhadi
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
The urgent shift to the online instructional environment has produced unprecedented challenges for teachers and placed new obligations on them. In this context, the study at hand investigated higher education teachers’ perceptions of the effectiveness of online teaching, their readiness to teach online and their willingness to teach outside their comfort zone. To this end, an online survey was conducted with 24 EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers from various Algerian universities using a questionnaire created in Google Forms. The obtained results reveal that the majority of the EFL teachers perceive online teaching as less effective than face-to-face teaching …
Educational Services And Women's Education: Saudi Arabia, Mufadhi Ratyan Alsharari
Educational Services And Women's Education: Saudi Arabia, Mufadhi Ratyan Alsharari
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
This study sought to identify the impact of current educational services on women’s education in Saudi universities. The study community focused on female students from Northern Border University, which has higher education services in relation to the target group environment of (n=775). Drawing on the perspectives of female students at the university, the study analyzed relationships between the educational and academic services provided (education services, health services, sports clubs and kindergartens) and individual education satisfaction and attainment. A questionnaire was designed to collect data from the study sample using a survey analysis methodology. Findings showed that higher quality academic and …
The Effectiveness Of A Stem-Based Programme For Teaching Mathematics To Develop Reflective Thinking Skills Among The Gifted In Makkah, Laila Saad Saed Alsaidi
The Effectiveness Of A Stem-Based Programme For Teaching Mathematics To Develop Reflective Thinking Skills Among The Gifted In Makkah, Laila Saad Saed Alsaidi
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
The present research discusses the effectiveness of a STEM curve- STEM based programme for teaching mathematics to develop critical thinking among gifted students in Makkah. To achieve this goal, 50 the researcher uses an experimental method. The research sample consists of 50 talented secondary-school students and is subjected Eisenach and Wilson to the Eisenach and Wilson Scale for Reflection. To test the validity 2005 of the research hypotheses, the data are statistically analysed using percentage and standard deviation as well as the t-test. A modified 0.01 ratio of blackberry gain is established to ensure the effectiveness of the programme. For …
Accelerating Saudi Students Into Higher Education Programs - Identifying Potential Educational Interventions To Expedite Development, Jawaher Hamad Bin Yousef
Accelerating Saudi Students Into Higher Education Programs - Identifying Potential Educational Interventions To Expedite Development, Jawaher Hamad Bin Yousef
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
Academic acceleration is an intervention that can reduce the effort, time and cost required for the educational process. In 2014 Saudi Arabia released a new regulation for acceleration (grade skipping) as one of the provisions for gifted students: it allows gifted students in the fourth grade (age ten) to move to the / sixth grade (age twelve), and from the seventh grade (age thirteen) to the ninth grade (age fifteen) after passing several criteria. Although these practices are useful for talented students (Col Angelo et al., 2004), A clear policy for ) 2004 acceleration at tertiary-level education was missed in …
Arab Official Efforts To Raise Awareness Of Covid-19 - The Crisis And Emergency Risk Communication Model In The Uae, Rahima Aissani
Arab Official Efforts To Raise Awareness Of Covid-19 - The Crisis And Emergency Risk Communication Model In The Uae, Rahima Aissani
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
This study aims to identify the contents of crisis communication used by the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to raise awareness of the dangers of coronavirus (COVID-19) and reduce its spread in three phases - preparation, initial and maintenance - following the Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication model. The study implemented content analysis for three elements from the crisis and risk communication components introduced by the UAE government. At the start of the coronavirus pandemic crisis, the UAE government quickly drew up a national plan to deal with the crisis under the leadership of the National Emergency Crisis …
Transitivity - An Application Of Halliday's Systemic-Functional Grammar To Hemingway's The Old Man And The Sea, Samah Abdel-Karim Ibrahim Mohammed
Transitivity - An Application Of Halliday's Systemic-Functional Grammar To Hemingway's The Old Man And The Sea, Samah Abdel-Karim Ibrahim Mohammed
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
This study aims to investigate the functional significance of transitivity in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, depending upon Halliday’s Systemicfunctional Grammar (SFG). Transitivity is a set of grammatical choices made by language users to express their experiences. These goings-on are realised by the verb type in the clause. The study investigates the process types: material, mental, relational, behavioural and existential, with a particular focus on the presentation of the protagonist's inner thoughts and his conscious practices. It examines the percentage of the frequent pattern of five process types in the novel and investigates the role of transitivity model …
Developing A Stress Prediction Tool For Arabic Speech Recognition Tasks, Eiman Alsharhan, Salah Alnajem
Developing A Stress Prediction Tool For Arabic Speech Recognition Tasks, Eiman Alsharhan, Salah Alnajem
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
Developing natural language processing applications for Arabic must consider the different linguistic characteristics found in speech and translate those characteristics to script in order to reduce computational complexity and therefore reduce the word error rate (WER). Suprasegmental features are fundamental properties of speech that can enhance the performance of many natural speech processing applications. The present study considered stress as a prosodic feature comprising the prominence of syllables in speech by developing a tool that generated phonetic transcriptions and predicted the stress position. The generated transcription was used to create the phonetic dictionary necessary for developing an automatic speech recognition …
Modern Arab Women And Traditional Morality, Gamil Mohammed Alamrani
Modern Arab Women And Traditional Morality, Gamil Mohammed Alamrani
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
This study uses a descriptive–analytical methodology, based on a postmodern deconstructive feminist approach, to analyze the struggle of modern Arab women fighting against patriarchal biases, violence, and the hypocritical morality system that dominate most tribal Arab societies. Applications for the study are taken from major Arab contemporary novels that continue to create strong independent female characters to expose the misogynistic nature of selected traditional tribal Arab societies. Many of these characters challenge the existing tribal moral codes that incite physical and psychological violence against women who are suspected of violating accepted social and cultural codes of family honor. The study …
The Arabic Negative Cycle - An Example Of Historical Changes In The Arabic Language, Mohammed Alluhaybi
The Arabic Negative Cycle - An Example Of Historical Changes In The Arabic Language, Mohammed Alluhaybi
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
This study considers negation in 47 modern Arabic varieties. The types of negation investigated are standard negation and nonverbal negation. The study reveals that negation in Arabic is undergoing a cycle in addition to the Jespersen’s Cycle, which has already been identified by several studies. In the first stage of this additional cycle, a single negator is used to negate both verbal and non-verbal clauses. In the second stage, this negator is attached to a personal pronoun to negate non-verbal clauses only. In the third stage, a new single morpheme is coined and generalised to negate any non-verbal clause. In …
Standards For The Arabic Language In School Education - Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Hassan Ahmed Alfakih
Standards For The Arabic Language In School Education - Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Hassan Ahmed Alfakih
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
Given the recent experience of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on building standards for the Arabic language and its importance locally and in the Arab world, in addition to the absence of previous studies that reviewed this experience, the current study aimed to uncover the standards of the Arabic language in public education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A descriptive approach was used in its exploratory design to achieve this goal and the analysis of official documents was used as a method for collecting data. The study concluded with a definition of the Saudi experience on building curriculum standards …
Gender-Wise Perception Of Students Towards Blended Learning In Higher Education - Pakistan, Saira Soomro, Arjumand Bano Soomro, Tarique Bhatti, Yonis Gulzar
Gender-Wise Perception Of Students Towards Blended Learning In Higher Education - Pakistan, Saira Soomro, Arjumand Bano Soomro, Tarique Bhatti, Yonis Gulzar
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
Blended learning (BL) is a recent trend among many options that can best fit learners’ needs, regardless of time and place. This study aimed to discover students’ perceptions of BL and the challenges faced by them while using technology. This quantitative study used data gathered from 300 students enrolled in four public universities in the Sindh province of Pakistan. The findings show that students were comfortable with the use of technology, and it has a positive effect on their academic experience. The study also showed that the use of technology encourages peer collaboration. The challenges found include: neither teacher support …
Using E-Books To Teach Deaf And Hard-Of-Hearing Students, Ali Saud Abdullah Al-Subaie
Using E-Books To Teach Deaf And Hard-Of-Hearing Students, Ali Saud Abdullah Al-Subaie
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
This study aimed to identify the attitudes of teachers in Al Amal’s classrooms and institutes at the primary stage regarding the use of e-book in teaching deaf and hard- of-hearing students. Using the Descriptive-Survey Method, 71 teachers of deaf and hard-of-hearing pupils took part in this study. The results found that they had ( )71 moderate attitudes toward the applicability of using e-book in teaching deaf students. Additionally, results showed that teachers have positive attitudes toward the educational benefits of using e-books in teaching deaf students. The study found no . significant differences because of the variables (the place of …
The Effectiveness Of The Fish-Bone Strategy In Learning Arabic Grammatical Rules In Saudi Arabia, Feras Mohammed Al-Madani
The Effectiveness Of The Fish-Bone Strategy In Learning Arabic Grammatical Rules In Saudi Arabia, Feras Mohammed Al-Madani
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
This research aims to show the effectiveness of the fish-bone strategy in learning and grasping Arabic grammatical rules among grade five students. The researcher . used a quasi-experimental approach. The study sample comprised 59 students, ( )29 ( )59 of which 29 students were the experimental group, and 30 students were the ( )30 . : control group. To achieve the objective of the study, the researcher chose the following tools: a grammar achievement test, a teacher's guide, an exercise book . and student activities. The students' performances in the experimental and control groups were compared, and the results of …
Putting Together Contracts - Drafting And Interpreting, What Participants Need To Know, Ali Salem Almarri
Putting Together Contracts - Drafting And Interpreting, What Participants Need To Know, Ali Salem Almarri
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
Saudi Arabia is welcoming an increasing number of law graduates with newly obtained degrees from America and Europe to become legal professionals in their own country. Studying abroad has heightened their second language skills and cultivated an essential . understanding of American and European law. Once home, they must begin to reconcile Saudi law with international law when drafting contracts and other legal transactions. This article will highlight particular sections of contracts during the drafting process, including . strategies and techniques when constructing critical clauses. In addition, the article will discuss facilitating and collaborating with other lawyers, including foreign players. …
Obstacles Of Applying Learning Communities To Northern Borders University - A Faculty Perspective, Saud R. Alrwaili
Obstacles Of Applying Learning Communities To Northern Borders University - A Faculty Perspective, Saud R. Alrwaili
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
The present study aims to identify the obstacles of applying learning communities to Northern Borders University from the perspective of faculty members. It also investigates the statistically significant differences in these obstacles according to gender, specialization, and ( ) ( ) ( ) experience. The author adopted the descriptive survey approach and applied a questionnaire to a randomly selected sample of 210 faculty members. The results showed that the obstacles of applying learning communities to Northern Borders University from the faculty ( .)210 perspectives were high. While the organizational, knowledge, and financial obstacles were high, the human obstacles were moderate. …
Investigating Thematic Choices In Trump's Tweets On The U.S.-Mexico Wall - Political Discourse On Social Media, Hesham Suleiman Alyousef
Investigating Thematic Choices In Trump's Tweets On The U.S.-Mexico Wall - Political Discourse On Social Media, Hesham Suleiman Alyousef
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
Trump declared his intention to build a wall along the U.S.–Mexico border during his 2016 presidential campaign in 2016. On 4 January, 2019, President Trump sent a letter to . members of the U.S. Congress on the need to build a long wall to secure the U.S. border. 2019 This led local news reporters to discuss this political issue and its effects on the American and Mexican populations. Since Trump’s decision to build the wall is one of the global . issues that has been widely discussed in social media and American news agencies, it is pertinent to analyze thematic …
Individual Educational Achievement Of Children Under Five Years Old As A Predictor Of School Readiness, Samia Mokhtar Mohamed Shahpo, Maymoonah Salah Hakim
Individual Educational Achievement Of Children Under Five Years Old As A Predictor Of School Readiness, Samia Mokhtar Mohamed Shahpo, Maymoonah Salah Hakim
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
The current paper aims to review the body of literature on the topic of academic achievement prediction to establish if it is possible to predict the academic achievement of children before the end of their fifth year. A . narrative synthesis performed on the body of the research obtained from " Jstor" Google Scholar, the ‘Jstor’ digital library and the university library, suggests that predictions can indeed be made regarding the academic achievement of this age group. The literature seems to suggest that both academic factors, . such as Cumulative average, and non-academic factors, such as ( ) ( : …
Holden Caulfield And Borderline Personality Disorder, Dalal Turki Alsharif
Holden Caulfield And Borderline Personality Disorder, Dalal Turki Alsharif
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
This paper investigates the psychological state of Holden Caulfield, the narrator of J. D. Salinger’s (1919–2010) coming-of-age novel, The Catcher in the Rye (1951). -1919( ) 1951( The character faces an inability to effectively communicate with his social surroundings. His traumatic childhood renders him alienated and disaffected. This .)2010 paper examines the psychological problems of Holden Caulfield, which are manifested through many symptoms that he displays throughout the novel. . According to the medical references utilized in this research, these symptoms are . categorized into interpersonal, affective, cognitive, and behavioral symptoms. The . analysis compares the symptoms, as identified by …
I Shall Stand Henceforward In Thy Shadow - Pairing Women With Shadows In Victorian Poetry, Hadeel Jamal Azhar
I Shall Stand Henceforward In Thy Shadow - Pairing Women With Shadows In Victorian Poetry, Hadeel Jamal Azhar
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
This study traces the symbol of the shadow and its association with women’s inferior position in selected Victorian poems. It shows how, in their use of the symbol, both male . and female poets represent women as abandoned in the shadow of their male contemporaries. Before addressing the poems selected, the study commences by . reviewing recent scholarship which refers to the term shadow in connotation with negative attributes during the Victorian period. It also provides an overview of Victorian novels which similarly represent female characters as being held captive in the shadows. . Although the poems included in this …
Gender Differences In The Lexical Retrieval Of Emotionally Valenced Words - The Case Of Adult Saudi Efl Learners, Fayza Saleh Alhammadi
Gender Differences In The Lexical Retrieval Of Emotionally Valenced Words - The Case Of Adult Saudi Efl Learners, Fayza Saleh Alhammadi
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
The issue of gender differences in relation to lexical retrieval merits further study, particularly within the context of emotive words. The present study is centred on the possibility of finding gender differences between Saudi EFL adult students in retrieving positive, neutral and negative words. Due to the undecided positions of many researchers on whether there are differences between men and women in linguistic performance on different linguistic and non-verbal stimuli, a null . . hypothesis was formulated. The study adopted a quasi-experimental design. This . type of design attempts to approach the rigour of an experimental design (Gravetter and Forzano, …
Facebook And Efl Academic Writing - Students' Perspectives In A Saudi College, Ahmed Saad Al Shlowiy
Facebook And Efl Academic Writing - Students' Perspectives In A Saudi College, Ahmed Saad Al Shlowiy
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
A research problem was identified that warranted the initiation of this study. A mixed pattern for results regarding Facebook usage in EFL writing outside the classroom exists in the literature. As the researchers believed in student- centered and autonomous learning, they intended to delineate students’ perceptions of the benefits and drawbacks of using Facebook in EFL . academic writing. The researchers conducted this study with their students at a Saudi college. Ten students participated in this study while they were studying the English Writing course. The researchers collected data through a questionnaire, interviews and participant observations. The findings . showed …
Bilingualism In Efl Classrooms - Saudi Female Beginners' Reading Performance And Classroom Involvement, Mazeegha Ahmed Al Tale
Bilingualism In Efl Classrooms - Saudi Female Beginners' Reading Performance And Classroom Involvement, Mazeegha Ahmed Al Tale
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
This study examines the impact of a bilingual approach on the academic performance and classroom involvement/participation of level 1 English as a foreign language (EFL) reading comprehension students. Fifty female Saudi EFL students participated in the . study. A reading comprehension test, classroom observation, and interviews served as data collection methods. The researcher used an independent samples t-test to ( ) analyze the test scores, and thematic content analyses to analyze the interviews and . observation. The results show that bilingualism as a teaching strategy positively affects learners' academic performance, classroom participation, and involvement. The study also indicates that most …
The Aesthetic Analysis Of Al Ahsa Historical Doors And Their Use In Tourist Wall Hangings, Salwa Abo Allele Mahmoud Abass, Hanaa Kamel Hassen Elseaidy
The Aesthetic Analysis Of Al Ahsa Historical Doors And Their Use In Tourist Wall Hangings, Salwa Abo Allele Mahmoud Abass, Hanaa Kamel Hassen Elseaidy
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
The research sheds light on the importance of Al Ahsa historical doors through studying the decorative vocabulary component of these doors. The research procedures include a study of the distinctive environmental and urban characteristics of Al Ahsa, which made it into the list of UNESCO’s global human heritage. The research followed the analytical descriptive approach to the of the traditional decorations of the doors. It seeks to understand and analyse the symbolic connotations and formal and aesthetic features of the doors in order to reach the design of tourist wall hangings with different materials with aesthetic visual effects, by using …
Developing Agritourism In Al Ahsa - Issues And Challenges, Rady T. Tawfik, Momtaz N. Elsebaei, Mohammed A. Almahish
Developing Agritourism In Al Ahsa - Issues And Challenges, Rady T. Tawfik, Momtaz N. Elsebaei, Mohammed A. Almahish
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
Agritourism is thriving in rural areas to represent a new pattern of agricultural diversification and an alternative farming practice that can strengthen community cohesion, enrich education, provide job opportunities, diversify the economic base and achieve agricultural sustainability. Al Ahsa is an ideal place to develop agritourism given its rich agricultural heritage as characterized by being one of the largest agricultural oases in the world. However, developing agritourism in Al Ahsa faces many challenges. This study aimed to elucidate the potential benefits of agritourism, examine the needs of agritourism providers, agritourists, and involved associations and use the Multiple Regression Model to …
The Reality Of Practicing Action Research By Mathematics Middle-School Teachers, Abdulaziz M. Alrwais
The Reality Of Practicing Action Research By Mathematics Middle-School Teachers, Abdulaziz M. Alrwais
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences
This study aimed to identify the status of practicing action research in middle school by mathematics teachers. It also aimed to define their attitude towards such process and the obstacles that limit its practice. A questionnaire was applied after verification of validity and reliability on a random sample consist of 130 mathematics teachers at the Intermediate stage. Meanwhile an interview was performed with 25 of them. The results showed that teachers believe on the importance of action research to improve their classroom practices. They agreed that action research is a professional development method that can improve their practices. The results …