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The Impact Of Growth In Real Estate Activities On Stock Returns And The Banking Sector In The Gulf Cooperation Council, Ahmed Mutlag Alanazi, Bader Jawid Alsubaiei May 2026

The Impact Of Growth In Real Estate Activities On Stock Returns And The Banking Sector In The Gulf Cooperation Council, Ahmed Mutlag Alanazi, Bader Jawid Alsubaiei

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This research studied the impact growth in real estate activities has on the return of the stock markets and banking sectors in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC). The study applied multivariate regressions to analyze yearly indices return data from 2010 to 2020. The results indicated a positive relationship between the growth in real estate activities and the return of both the stock markets and banking sectors in the GCC countries. Furthermore, the study also discovered a positive correlation between the returns of the stock markets and the banking sectors. Finally, the results of this study are expected to be …

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Teachers And Learning Preferences Of Students With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Alanood Abdullah Bin Jardan, Mohammed Abdulaziz Al Jaffal May 2026

Teachers And Learning Preferences Of Students With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Alanood Abdullah Bin Jardan, Mohammed Abdulaziz Al Jaffal

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

Students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) need teaching strategies that support their learning, such as Dunn and Dunn's model, which can help them reach their full potential. This study aimed to investigate teachers' knowledge of Dunn and Dunn's model as one of the learning styles models and their perceptions of the importance of using it for students with ADHD. This study utilized a descriptive approach by employing a survey to collect the data. The study sample consisted of 115 teachers in elementary schools in Riyadh city that have ADHD programs. The findings of the study indicated that teachers had …

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Orientalists' Views On The Arabs Of The Arabian Peninsula: A Critical Enquiry Into The Journey Of William Palgrave, Khlaif S. Alshammari May 2026

Orientalists' Views On The Arabs Of The Arabian Peninsula: A Critical Enquiry Into The Journey Of William Palgrave, Khlaif S. Alshammari

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This article sheds light on how the Arabs of the Arabian Peninsula are described in the writings of the English orientalist William Gifford Palgrave (1826-1888). He depicted a lively and vibrant social image of the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula. He wrote about their religious, intellectual, moral, political and social aspects. He relied on his travelling throughout the Peninsula to discuss this society, its characteristics, its positives and its negatives. The study investigates the stereotyped image of these Arabs in line with Orientalist experiments specifically in the 19 th century. It adopts historical and comparative approaches within his writings away …

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Online Learning Apps Adoption In The Saudi Context: A Perspective On The Unified Theory Of Acceptance And Use Of Technology, Ahmad Almufarreh May 2026

Online Learning Apps Adoption In The Saudi Context: A Perspective On The Unified Theory Of Acceptance And Use Of Technology, Ahmad Almufarreh

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The aim of this study is to determine the behavioural intentions and actual usage of online learning apps through the lens of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology, which is a synthesis of numerous theories and models and is most commonly used to examine technology adoption behaviours. The study has utilised an exploratory research design, and data were collected using a questionnaire survey. The items used for establishing the questionnaire to measure the study constructs are adopted from different valid studies conducted previously. The current study examines the role of various factors, including performance expectancy, effort expectancy, …

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Learners' Writing Errors In Foreign Languages: Arabic And English As Examples, Ahmed Al Khateeb May 2026

Learners' Writing Errors In Foreign Languages: Arabic And English As Examples, Ahmed Al Khateeb

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The practice of writing in a foreign language is a demanding skill that requires deep understanding of relevant error types. This research focuses on understanding, analysing and specifying the error types related to writing in a foreign language in two different language settings, considering differences in their cultural and linguistic systems. The study has adopted two rubrics for marking and determining different types of error made by learners while writing in a foreign language (English or Arabic). Each rubric, with its error categories, is suitable for the nature of each language. The results of this study can lead to an …

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Employing Expressive Children's Drawings During The Formal Perception Stage To Design Social Comics, Shatha Ibrahim Al-Asqha, Fatima Hassan Mohammed Al-Qarni May 2026

Employing Expressive Children's Drawings During The Formal Perception Stage To Design Social Comics, Shatha Ibrahim Al-Asqha, Fatima Hassan Mohammed Al-Qarni

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

Children's expressive drawings during the formal perception stage (FPS) are loaded with realistic experience; they represent a level of mental and social maturity and clarify the relationship of children's drawings to local social issues. The study employed drawings during the FPS in order to design social comics. They are drawings that combine pictures and writings about social issues, inspired by children's drawings. The study's importance lies in describing the characteristics of drawings in the FPS, clarifying the relationship between drawings and local social issues, and demonstrating the possibility of employing children's drawings to design social comics. The sample of the …

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Artificial Intelligence Versus Arab Universities: An Enquiry Into The Saudi Context, Farhan Yetaim Alenezi May 2026

Artificial Intelligence Versus Arab Universities: An Enquiry Into The Saudi Context, Farhan Yetaim Alenezi

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study aims to identify factors that influence the adoption of artificial intelligence in teaching and learning environments in Saudi universities in light of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology, as well as proposals that effectively support the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in Saudi universities' teaching and learning environments. The study employs a qualitative approach based on a semi-structured interview, with the participation of 17 faculty members from Saudi universities specialising in educational technology. According to the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology, the study's findings show that there are four aspects that affect …

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Critics' Reception Of Women's Novels In Saudi Arabia, Ibrahem Khlaofa Almarhaby May 2026

Critics' Reception Of Women's Novels In Saudi Arabia, Ibrahem Khlaofa Almarhaby

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This paper examines how male critics in Saudi Arabia received the pre-1980 works of Saudi female novelists in their critical studies. It seeks to explain why many Saudi and Arab male literary critics either ignored or decried these pioneering novels by highlighting the essential criteria they adopted in their evaluation and criticism of such texts. This paper establishes that these novels were poorly received-and unjustly so-compared to those written by men in the same period. Male critics subconsciously dismissed or disregarded these novels on the grounds that they were of limited literary quality, did not belong to what was accepted …

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The Influence Of The Low Variety In Advertisements: The Saudi Context, Yasir Zayed Alasiri May 2026

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; …

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The Impact Of Climate Change On Human Rights: The Saudi Context, Nehad Farouk Abbas May 2026

The Impact Of Climate Change On Human Rights: The Saudi Context, Nehad Farouk Abbas

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

Climate change is a global as well as a local issue due to its impact on both international and local levels. Climate change is defined as the change that affects the components of the environment surrounding humans, such as air, water, and soil. Accordingly, it harmfully impacts some of the most basic determinants of health, including clean air, clean water, clean food, adequate shelter, and protection from disease. The study problem emerges from the discussion on the impact of climate change on human rights in international law and the Saudi system. This study sought to demonstrate and discuss the impact …

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Invisible Bias In Nominating And Selecting Gifted Students, Abdullah M. Aljughaiman, Waleed K. Albosaif May 2026

Invisible Bias In Nominating And Selecting Gifted Students, Abdullah M. Aljughaiman, Waleed K. Albosaif

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

One objective of gifted education is to provide fair opportunities for all children, including access to the nomination and selection procedures for gifted programs and services. This study aims to identify invisible biases in the nomination of gifted students in the National Gifted Identification Project (Mawhiba Test) during the periods of 2014, 2015, and 2017. The participants were limited to students nominated in Al Ahsa, in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, which includes students from rural, urban, and settlement schools. There was a total sample of 74,199 male students and 74,097 female students. The study followed the descriptive approach, …

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Islamic Education And Its Consideration Of Contemporary Matters: An Enquiry Into School Curricula, Hassan Sayed Shehata May 2026

Islamic Education And Its Consideration Of Contemporary Matters: An Enquiry Into School Curricula, Hassan Sayed Shehata

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This research looks at the extent to which Islamic education conveys awareness of contemporary issues. This examination is conducted on secondary school Islamic education textbooks in Egypt. A list of contemporary issues was first classified into four components: Scholarly, environmental, social, and economic. This was followed by analyzing the content of the targeted textbooks. The analysis revealed that those textbooks lacked information on contemporary issues. Following this, the perspectives of Islamic education teachers were surveyed, who stressed the necessity of shaping education to raise students' awareness of the status quo. Some participants, however, remarked that there is no need to …

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Factors Affecting Students' Readiness For Flipped Learning: An Innovative Approach, Abdulhameed R. Alenezi May 2026

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 …

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Empowering Women In University Leadership Positions: The Saudi Context, Leena Sulaiman Alkhlewi May 2026

Empowering Women In University Leadership Positions: The Saudi Context, Leena Sulaiman Alkhlewi

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study aims to practically identify the reality of empowering Saudi women in leadership positions in higher education institutions, reveal the challenges that prevent their empowerment, and suggest some methods to overcome these challenges. To achieve the study's objectives, the researcher used the descriptive survey method based on a questionnaire as a tool for the analysis. The researcher used a classified random sample of 376 faculty members in the following Saudi government universities: King Saud in Riyadh, King Abdulaziz in Jeddah, and Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal in the Eastern. The study reached several conclusions. The analysis indicates that there is …

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Educational Robots And Creative Thinking Skills, Renad M. Alrobia, Nada J. Alsaleh May 2026

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 …

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Appropriate Grammatical Topics For Non-Arabic Speakers, Mohammed Alluhaybi May 2026

Appropriate Grammatical Topics For Non-Arabic Speakers, Mohammed Alluhaybi

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The aim of this research is to determine appropriate grammatical topics for advanced level learners of Arabic as a second language and measure their mastery of them. In this vein, the descriptive method is applied, as it seems to be the most appropriate one to meet the aims of the study. First, the researcher prepared a questionnaire to determine the appropriate grammatical topics for those learners based on several sources. The questionnaire resulted in 16 topics. Accordingly, the researcher constructed a test to measure the extent to which students were familiar with these topics. The test was applied to a …

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Developing Analytical And Critical Reading Skills Through The Linguistic Context: The Philosophy Of Text Grammar, Mahmoud Abdel Hafez Khalaf Allah May 2026

Developing Analytical And Critical Reading Skills Through The Linguistic Context: The Philosophy Of Text Grammar, Mahmoud Abdel Hafez Khalaf Allah

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This research aims to identify the effectiveness of a proposed program based on Text Grammar' (teaching languages through the linguistic context) in developing analytical and critical reading skills through the language skills course for first-level students in the Bachelor of Arabic Language at the Faculty of Arts, Jouf University. To achieve this goal, two lists of analytical reading skills and critical reading skills were built, and the foundations for building the proposed program were identified. The research was based on the experimental design of one group (30 students). The researcher prepared the analytical and critical reading tests, and they were …

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Writer-Reader Interaction: Investigating Interactional Metadiscourse In Advertisements From Arab Universities, Aisha Saadi Al-Subhi May 2026

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 …

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The Impact Of Organizational Climate On The Enhancement Of Belonging In The Hospitality Sector: The Saudi Context, Ali Abdulhadi Alalmai May 2026

The Impact Of Organizational Climate On The Enhancement Of Belonging In The Hospitality Sector: The Saudi Context, Ali Abdulhadi Alalmai

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

Organizational climate is an approach used regarding organizational behavior that distinguishes an organization from others and highlights it in a better and more positive manner when compared to its competitors. This study aims to assess the degree of organizational climate dimensions (clarity of goals, effectiveness of communication, balance of power, use of resources, cohesion, morale, creativity, independence, adaptation, and problem-solving) present in five-star hotels within the regions of Makkah and Madinah in Saudi Arabia, and the impact it has on enhancing the sense of belonging in employees. To achieve the goal of the study, the researcher distributed a questionnaire to …

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The Early-Field Experience For Female Kindergarten Student Teachers: Saudi Arabia, Ibtisam Yassin Hussain, Amani Khalaf Hamdan Alghamdi, Hanan Abdel Ghaffar Attia Ibrahim May 2026

The Early-Field Experience For Female Kindergarten Student Teachers: Saudi Arabia, Ibtisam Yassin Hussain, Amani Khalaf Hamdan Alghamdi, Hanan Abdel Ghaffar Attia Ibrahim

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

’The aim of the current research is to determine, from the female students point of view, the effectiveness of having early field experience in preparing kindergarten teachers as part of a bachelor's program. To accomplish its goal, the research tracked the program from an organizational, administrative, educational, and professional perspective for five semesters. It also measured professional participation in the program's early field experience. It used longitudinal surveys, and followed the longitudinal research approach, with the sample consisting of 135 students in the bachelor’s program for early childhood education at a Saudi university. The results of the research showed an …

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The Design Of Metal Jewelry Using Digital Art To Strengthen The National Identity: Saudi Society, Masouda Alem Qurban, Qamash Ali Hussein Al Qamash May 2026

The Design Of Metal Jewelry Using Digital Art To Strengthen The National Identity: Saudi Society, Masouda Alem Qurban, Qamash Ali Hussein Al Qamash

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

With the advent of informatics, artists competed to attract audiences by producing digital artwork more creatively. Artists have been using computers in every aspect of their daily lives. The use of the mediums and art that the artist wants to express has changed and is varied. This, in turn, helped in the emergence of new artistic classifications in the field of plastic art that highlights the heritage and civilization aspects of Saudi society, as it is based on the foundations and rules generally related to society, such as ideological, philosophical, social, psychological, and cognitive foundations. The Saudi fine art movement …

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The Balanced Scorecard And Enterprises Performance Evaluations: The Saudi Context, Abeer Mohammed Alazzaz, Mohammed Ibrahim Bu Haya May 2026

The Balanced Scorecard And Enterprises Performance Evaluations: The Saudi Context, Abeer Mohammed Alazzaz, Mohammed Ibrahim Bu Haya

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The balanced scorecard is one of the most important and effective tools for evaluating the performance of companies by combining financial and non- financial measures. The research aims to study the effect of applying the balanced scorecard on evaluating the performance of small and medium- sized Saudi companies. Despite the benefits of applying the balanced scorecard, previous studies on this topic are limited. In particular, there is little research on small and medium-sized enterprises in the developing countries, such as Saudi Arabia. A questionnaire was developed and distributed to a random sample that consisted of 76 respondents from various sectors …

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Saudis' Attitudes Towards Their Dialects: A Keyword Technique, Laila Mobarak Alhazmi, Hanady Abdulaziz Alfalig May 2026

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, …

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Saudi Arabia's Colourful Culture: Exploring Colour In Saudi Heritage Homes' Al-Majlis Rooms, Douha Attiah, Abeer A. Alawad May 2026

Saudi Arabia's Colourful Culture: Exploring Colour In Saudi Heritage Homes' Al-Majlis Rooms, Douha Attiah, Abeer A. Alawad

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

Saudi Arabia considers its architectural heritage a part of its wealth and has extensively tried to preserve it. Several studies on Saudi Arabia’s heritage, particularly its architectural heritage, have been conducted; however, there is a lack of studies detailing elements of the interiors of historical buildings. This study analyses the colours in interior spaces of traditional Saudi Arabian houses. A descriptive-analytical method is applied to eight traditional houses from the four main regions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: central, eastern, western and southern. This study demonstrates that the two houses selected from each of the four regions have similarities …

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Online Teachers: Stepping Out Of The Comfort Zone Is A Must, Amina Abdelhadi May 2026

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 …

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Journalism And Media Curricula In Arab Universities, Rahima Aissani May 2026

Journalism And Media Curricula In Arab Universities, Rahima Aissani

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The study aims to reveal the consistency of the types of courses in the study plans of the bachelor’s programs and specializations in journalism and media in Arab universities, along with the classification of the UNESCO model curriculum courses on teaching journalism in developing countries. It adopted three types of courses that need to be included in any curriculum in the field of journalism teaching: Professional Training Courses (47%), Journalism Courses (10%), and arts and other sciences courses (43%). This model was ( applied to academic plans of journalism and media programs and specializations in nine Arab public universities covering …

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Flipped Learning Of Irrational Numbers: Saudi Arabia, Maha Saad Alsaeed May 2026

Flipped Learning Of Irrational Numbers: Saudi Arabia, Maha Saad Alsaeed

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

There is a growing interest in the flipped design model in K–12 mathematics classrooms, as it has been shown to have a positive influence on learning. This study aims to help improve students’ learning of irrational numbers using the flipped design model. This study outlines four design elements of the flipped environment that are shown to increase student engagement. Two eighth-grade classes (n = 60) were examined using a quasi-experimental research design in terms of students’ mathematical achievements and engagement levels. Each class was tested using a different instructional approach: traditional learning or flipped learning. The results indicated that the …

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Improved Recreation Skills For Those With Autism And Intellectual Disabilities, Atef Abdallah Bahrawi May 2026

Improved Recreation Skills For Those With Autism And Intellectual Disabilities, Atef Abdallah Bahrawi

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of training programmes on recreation and entertainment skills provided remotely for people with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disabilities. The researcher used the descriptive approach in his survey input and the study sample was chosen by the stratified random method, where the subjects were distributed in groups and the individuals of the sample were identified. The results indicated that the level of recreational programme planning and implementation was moderate, while the level of follow-up was low. The results also indicated that there are statistically significant differences due to the variables of the recreational …

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Educational Services And Women's Education: Saudi Arabia, Mufadhi Ratyan Alsharari May 2026

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 …

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Factors Influencing The Academic Use Of Social Network Sites Among University Instructors: A Qualitative Approach, Hibah Aladsani, Ahlam Al Abdullatif May 2026

Factors Influencing The Academic Use Of Social Network Sites Among University Instructors: A Qualitative Approach, Hibah Aladsani, Ahlam Al Abdullatif

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

Social network sites have had a tremendous impact on the social, economic and scientific aspects of human life. Although the emergence of social network sites was intended for purely social purposes, they have had a significant effect on university life. This research aimed to understand the factors influencing the academic use of social network sites by university faculty. A qualitative research method was used, where 19 interviews were conducted. The data was thematically analysed using the NVivo software. The findings showed a number of encouraging and hindering factors. The encouraging factors included professional development, teaching improvement, expansion of academic networks, …

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