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Papers by Jihan Zayed

International Journal of Advanced Research, 2016

International Journal of Education and Practice, 2021

The present paper adopts a qualitative approach for studying Toni Morrison's novel God He... more The present paper adopts a qualitative approach for studying Toni Morrison's novel God Help the Child in the light of Milkhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogism. According to this theory, it can be claimed that this novel is polyphonic (i.e., multi-voiced). Morrison's own voice has not come in the novel between reader and the story as her point of view is absent from the novel. Instead, many other stories are reverberating with too much human life as the novel is divided into four parts with each part divided into subparts. Each of these subparts has a character to say it.

In this paper, thegeneralobjectiveofthestudywastodevelopweaklearners’decodingskillinusingcontextc... more In this paper, thegeneralobjectiveofthestudywastodevelopweaklearners’decodingskillinusingcontextclueswhile reading. Among the first year 48 EFL students, Qassim Private Colleges, KSA, 12 weak learners were selected randomly and an action research was conducted. Qualitative method was used to analyze the data because the data gathered through each tool involved word argumentation.For Bentz and Shapiro(1998), action research is less a separate culture of inquiry than it is a statement of intention and values.The intention is to change a system, and the values are those of participation, self-determination, empowerment through knowledge, and change. The requirement of word recognition was documented through assessments revealing students' phonemic awareness, reading fluency, and word recognition skill. An analysis of the problem setting resulted in the selection of three major categories of intervention: assessment and review of phonemic awareness to assure reading readiness; beginning reading instructional course; focus on reading skills and strategies and the word recognition. The analysis of probable cause data revealed that first year graduate students typically lacked the skills and strategies necessary for word recognition and reading. Post intervention data indicated an increase in students' phonological and word recognition. The data also showed a substantial improvement in word recognition skills and an increase in the understanding and use of various reading strategies.

Journal of Education and Practice

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2016

In response to the pandemic spread of COVID-19, universities all over the world have shifted to e... more In response to the pandemic spread of COVID-19, universities all over the world have shifted to e-teaching The Department of English, Mustaqbal University, College of Administration and Humanities, Saudi Arabia, used the Microsoft Teams App for teaching all courses in virtual classrooms However, reading as a receptive skill, was difficult to teach remotely because it was not so interactive for a teacher to know whether the students have performed the assigned tasks or not Therefore, there was a need to search for a strategy that could be integrated while using technology to help EFL students improve their reading comprehension This strategy was think-aloud strategy which could potentially make use of participants’ mental data while interpreting and responding to a text During reading, this strategy is capable of making the mental processing covert showing direct evidence of internal reading processes A quasi-experimental design with an experimental group and a control group was used...

Adopting a qualitative design, the present study aimed to highlight Mikhail Bakhtin's the... more Adopting a qualitative design, the present study aimed to highlight Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogism in relation to the objectives of teacher education in KSA. To bring this theory to teacher education, the study considered the ways in which students, texts and the instructor interact – enter into dialogue – in order to generate meaning and understanding. The aim of the dialogue was to explore new interpretations of the texts. At the end of the experiment, a questionnaire was administered to 20 students – enrolled at the English department, Humanities and Administration College, Qassim Private Colleges, KSA. Students stated that dialogic learning was very problematic at the very beginning; nevertheless, they eventually realized it vital for their professional development as well as their development as learners.

Mobile Learning: Unlocking the Potentials for Female Education in KSA, 2019

Out of their homes, Saudi women are imposed to be accompanied by their male guardians. Therefore,... more Out of their homes, Saudi women are imposed to be accompanied by their male guardians. Therefore, they suffer to complete their education. To overcome this obstacle, they currently use mobile learning (mLearning)-in the form of social networking apps such as WhatsApp or Twitter-to keep in touch with their instructors. Being specified for educational purposes, the present study used ClassDojo and Edmodo as alternatives to these apps for unlocking the potentials of mLearning for female education in KSA. Employing a quantitative, one-group design, a questionnaire was conducted for collecting data during the 2 nd Semester of the academic year 2017/2018. It aimed at determining the positive perceptions of 15 Saudi female students enrolled in the last level of a teacher education programme towards mLearning.

To tackle a bundle of resources for writing a research paper is not an easy task for an experienc... more To tackle a bundle of resources for writing a research paper is not an easy task for an experienced instructor. Even worse, it is a confusing one for a student who is asked for the first time to write a research paper after studying several courses of essay writing. Writing a research paper needs not to be a frightening task. A research paper may be longer than most of all college essays, but a student will be given more time to complete it. Having a plan for work will make the process go smoothly. Over the years, I have arrived at a time-saving, ten-step, simple strategy for this. The first five steps prepare the student to write and the remaining steps helps in writing the documented paper.This book goes through these steps giving some examples from online resources.

Asian journal of multidisciplinary studies, 2016

Within a sociocultural and interactionist theoretical framework, this study set out to determine ... more Within a sociocultural and interactionist theoretical framework, this study set out to determine the effectiveness of collaborative dialogues and form-focused, corrective feedback in online communication in improving 27 EFL female learners’ spelling. According to a questionnaire results, those students preferred using the WhatsApp to engage in collaborative interaction outside the classroom. The present study adopted the quasi-experimental design in terms of using five experimental groups and one control group. For the direct impact of the improvement in spelling on writing, there was a need to find out the long-term effect of the programme on the writing of the study sample, which was assessed in their final achievement course test. It was concluded that collaborative dialogues and form-focused, corrective feedback in online communication was effective in improving EFL learners’ spelling.

Out of their homes, Saudi women are imposed to be accompanied by their male guardians. Therefore,... more Out of their homes, Saudi women are imposed to be accompanied by their male guardians. Therefore, they suffer to complete their education. To overcome this obstacle, they currently use mobile learning (mLearning) – in the form of social networking apps such as WhatsApp or Twitter – to keep in touch with their instructors. Being specified for educational purposes, the present study used ClassDojo and Edmodo as alternatives to these apps for unlocking the potentials of mLearning for female education in KSA. Employing a quantitative, one-group design, a questionnaire was conducted for collecting data during the 2 nd Semester of the academic year 2017/2018. It aimed at determining the positive perceptions of 15 Saudi female students enrolled in the last level of a teacher education programme towards mLearning.

This study aimed at determining the effectiveness o f using reflection in developing Tourism and ... more This study aimed at determining the effectiveness o f using reflection in developing Tourism and Hospitality students' ora cy in English. Two modes of reflection (i.e., active reflection and proactive reflection) were used for developing two aspects of oracy: language awareness of some features of spoken language (i.e., phonology, vocabulary, grammar, and pragmatics) and some oral performance criteria (i.e., active listening, turn-taking, questioning, responding, and overall performance quality ). To investigate the problem of the study, two sections from third-year, Tourism studen ts – Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality, Suez Canal University – were randomly assigned to be either the experimental group (EG) or the control group (CG). Both groups studied six spoken texts; the former had the chance to practice refl ction with its two modes while the latter had not that chance. They we re pre-tested and post-tested on their oracy. A t test for independent samples demonstrated that...

THINK-ALOUD STRATEGY: IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION IN AN ONLINE CONTEXT, 2021

Article History In response to the pandemic spread of COVID-19, universities all over the world h... more Article History In response to the pandemic spread of COVID-19, universities all over the world have shifted to e-teaching. The Department of English, Mustaqbal University, College of Administration and Humanities, Saudi Arabia, used the Microsoft Teams App for teaching all courses in virtual classrooms. However, reading as a receptive skill, was difficult to teach remotely because it was not so interactive for a teacher to know whether the students have performed the assigned tasks or not. Therefore, there was a need to search for a strategy that could be integrated while using technology to help EFL students improve their reading comprehension. This strategy was think-aloud strategy which could potentially make use of participants' mental data while interpreting and responding to a text. During reading, this strategy is capable of making the mental processing covert showing direct evidence of internal reading processes. A quasi-experimental design with an experimental group an...

Internationalization vs. Globalization: What Can the Arab EFL Teachers Do to Assure Quality in Education?, 2020

Internationalization of higher education appeared as a counterattack to mitigate the impact of gl... more Internationalization of higher education appeared as a counterattack to mitigate the impact of globalization on education. In a sense, it has entered higher education as a means for ensuring that graduates are a competitive workforce worldwide. Meanwhile, TEFL has been emphasized as the medium of instruction. The current paper investigated the roles of EFL teachers could perform at schools to prepare their students before joining internationalized higher education whether at home or abroad. Adopting a descriptive design, a quantitative data-gathering instrument, an opinionnaire, was designed to determine if EFL teachers in the Arab countries undertake their roles required for education quality assurance. The Arab EFL teachers were intentionally chosen as a community for this research due to possible curriculum-embedment of ideologies different from their national values. 86 EFL teachers from most of the Arab countries responded to the opinionnaire. Qualitative data were generated th...

English Language Teaching

Adopting a mixed-method design, the current study attempted to specify the relationships among fo... more Adopting a mixed-method design, the current study attempted to specify the relationships among four affective factors (i.e., motivation, attitudes, self-confidence, and anxiety) involved in learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Seventy-three students – from Administration and Humanities College, Mustaqbal University and Jubail University College, KSA – responded to a questionnaire of two parts: Part I and Part II, which yielded quantitative data. Qualitative data were generated through the analysis of Part I results to prove that there was no relationship between Saudi students’ EFL proficiency and their awareness of the affective factors involved in learning it. Findings of Part II confirmed the interrelatedness among the four affective factors in the learning process in general, except for self-confidence did not significantly correlate with anxiety; the former got the highest mean (48.79) while the latter got the lowest (34.93). Calculating Standard Multiple Regression fo...

International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature

Recently, educators have called for raising the expectation of students' learning through tea... more Recently, educators have called for raising the expectation of students' learning through teaching more rigorous knowledge and skills. For defining and describing rigor, a cognitive rigor (CR) matrix was used in the present study to augment 12 tertiary, female, Saudi students' non-fiction writing skills in terms of organization, development, cohesion/coherence, structure, vocabulary and mechanics. The quasi-experimental design was employed using one experimental group (EG) and one control group (CG). Both groups were pre-tested and post-tested in writing a non-fiction essay. The Mann-Whitney U test demonstrated that there were statistically significant differences between the mean ranks of the EG and those of the CG on the post-test favoring the former.

International Journal of Advanced Research, 2016

International Journal of Education and Practice, 2021

Journal of Education and Practice

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2016

Mobile Learning: Unlocking the Potentials for Female Education in KSA, 2019

Asian journal of multidisciplinary studies, 2016

Out of their homes, Saudi women are imposed to be accompanied by their male guardians. Therefore,... more Out of their homes, Saudi women are imposed to be accompanied by their male guardians. Therefore, they suffer to complete their education. To overcome this obstacle, they currently use mobile learning (mLearning) – in the form of social networking apps such as WhatsApp or Twitter – to keep in touch with their instructors. Being specified for educational purposes, the present study used ClassDojo and Edmodo as alternatives to these apps for unlocking the potentials of mLearning for female education in KSA. Employing a quantitative, one-group design, a questionnaire was conducted for collecting data during the 2 nd Semester of the academic year 2017/2018. It aimed at determining the positive perceptions of 15 Saudi female students enrolled in the last level of a teacher education programme towards mLearning.

THINK-ALOUD STRATEGY: IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION IN AN ONLINE CONTEXT, 2021

Internationalization vs. Globalization: What Can the Arab EFL Teachers Do to Assure Quality in Education?, 2020

English Language Teaching

International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature

Adopting a qualitative design, the present study aimed to highlight Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of d... more Adopting a qualitative design, the present study aimed to highlight Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogism in relation to the objectives of teacher education in KSA. To bring this theory to teacher education, the study considered the ways in which students, texts and the instructor interact – enter into dialogue – in order to generate meaning and understanding. The aim of the dialogue was to explore new interpretations of the texts. At the end of the experiment, a questionnaire was administered to 20 students – enrolled at the English department, Humanities and Administration College, Qassim Private Colleges, KSA. Students stated that dialogic learning was very problematic at the very beginning; nevertheless, they eventually realized it vital for their professional development as well as their development as learners.

Journey to Research Writing

Composing this book comes after a four-year experience of teaching my students how to write a res... more Composing this book comes after a four-year experience of teaching my students how to write a research paper. To tackle a bundle of references for writing a research paper is not an easy task for an experienced researcher. Even worse, it is a confusing one for a student who is asked for the first time to write a research paper after studying several courses of essay writing.
Writing a research paper needs not to be a frightening task. A research paper may be longer than most of all college essays, but a student will be given more time to complete it. Having a plan for work makes the process go smoothly. Over the years, I have arrived at a time-saving, ten-step, simple strategy for achieving this. The first five steps prepare the student to write and the remaining ones help in writing the documented paper.

The goal of this study was to determine the effect of using some dramatic activities on developin... more The goal of this study was to determine the effect of using some dramatic
activities on developing the oral performance skills of second year prep
school students in English. The dramatic activities included storytelling,
story-acting, pantomime, puppetry, role-playing, reader’s theater and choral
reading. The oral performance skills were pronunciation, vocabulary, wordformation,
grammar and language functions.
To investigate the problem of the study, the experimental design was
adopted. Seventy-eight girls of second year prep students in two classes from
Sammanoud Prep School for Girls were chosen as the subjects of the study.
The two classes were randomly assigned to either the experimental or the
control group. The experimental group was taught the first term units
including stories of Hello! 4 using the dramatic activities. On the other hand,
the control group studied these units as recommended by the Ministry of
Education. The two groups were pretested and posttested on their oral
performance skills.
For investigating the differences between the mean scores of the
experimental group and those of the control group on the oral performance
pre- and post-test, the t-test for independent samples was applied. The results
demonstrated that there were statistically significant differences between the
mean score of the experimental group and those of the control group on the
oral performance post-test favoring the experimental group in the oral
performance in general and in the skills of pronunciation, word-formation,
grammar and language functions.
Based upon these findings and in

This study aimed at determining the effectiveness of using reflection in developing Tourism and H... more This study aimed at determining the effectiveness of using reflection
in developing Tourism and Hospitality students' oracy in English. Two modes of reflection (i.e., active reflection and proactive reflection) were used for developing two aspects of oracy: language awareness of some features of spoken language (i.e., phonology, vocabulary, grammar, and pragmatics) and some oral performance criteria (i.e., active listening, turn-taking, questioning, responding, and overall performance quality). To investigate the problem of the study, two sections from third-year, Tourism students – Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality, Suez Canal University – were randomly assigned to be either the experimental group (EG) or the control group (CG). Both groups studied six spoken texts; the former had the chance to practice reflection with its two modes while the latter had not that chance. They were pre-tested and post-tested on their oracy. A t test for independent samples demonstrated that there was a statistically significant difference between the mean score of the EG and that of the CG on the post OT favoring the EG in language awareness including vocabulary, grammar, and pragmatics and oral performance including active listening, turn-taking, questioning, responding, and overall performance quality. Therefore, it was concluded that using reflection is effective in developing Tourism and Hospitality students' oracy in English.