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Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences, 2024
ChatGPT has attracted the greatest attention in higher education, especially concerning how it ca... more ChatGPT has attracted the greatest attention in higher education, especially concerning how it can support and enhance learning and instructional activities. This paper aims to present a critical review of the advantages and disadvantages that result from integrating ChatGPT into higher education. This study designed an online questionnaire. The online questionnaires were shared with undergraduate students at three Jordanian universities: Applied Science Private University, Jerash, and Petra via WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Email, and LinkedIn. According to this research, the advantages of CHATGPT are saving time, getting immediate answers to various questions, writing for projects and homework, aiding in language learning, unified feedback, further learning material, and greater accessibility of information. Of course, there are disadvantages too: less critical thinking, only partial language capacity, incomplete knowledge of subjects, developing dependency on technology, misinformation, data privacy, and biased responses. The study concludes by recommending CHATGPT as a useful source of information, but its users must be sensitive to limitations and possible inaccuracies about the subject matter; fact-checking procedures must be done to establish whether the material is correct. Further, great care must be taken when using ChatGPT professionally to protect sensitive and secret information.
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This study aims to investigate linguistics modification in teacher’s discourse in an English for ... more This study aims to investigate linguistics modification in teacher’s discourse in an English for medical purposes (EMP) classroom at one of the medical colleges in Saudi Arabia. Linguistic modification in teacher’s talk is essential part of classroom interaction as it facilitates students’ understanding by reducing complexity of syntactic structures and the use of familiar structures and words. Data in this study were collected through classroom observation and informal chats with the teacher. 15 classroom observations were carried out during the First Semester of the academic year 2019/2020. When necessary, informal chats with the teacher took place at the end of observation session to get further clarification of what had happened in the classroom. The teacher talk can be described as having high frequency of self-repetition, exaggerated pronunciation, slower rate of speech, avoiding contractions, use of short sentences and phrases, paraphrasing, avoiding idioms and unfamiliar words, and pausing were marked in teacher talk. Phonological, semantic and syntactic modifications in teacher talk ensured input comprehensibility, avoided confusion and encouraged classroom participation. This study concludes that linguistic modifications in teacher talk are necessary to ensure input comprehensibility and support students’ engagement in classroom interactions. Keywords: Classroom interaction, discourse analysis, English for medical purposes, linguistic modification, teacher talk. Cite as: Al-smadi, O.A., Yassin, B., &Al-Bataineh, K.B. (2020). Linguistics modifications in teacher talk in English for medical purposes classroom. Trends in Social Sciences, 2(2), 10-22.
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Journal of Language Teaching and Research
This study critically investigates the discourse of Facebook posts on Jordan’s Fourth Circle prot... more This study critically investigates the discourse of Facebook posts on Jordan’s Fourth Circle protests. The Facebook posts are considered to be protest discourse, with ideological imprints of positive “we” in-group representations and negative “they” out-group descriptions. Utilizing a critical-discourse analysis method, this study reveals that Facebook posts were efficiently used to define the ethnonational identity of the participants and to describe their goals and activities, as well as to provide continual updates on the protests. The activists used linguistic strategies (e.g., rural terms, pronouns, and humorous posts). The activists purposefully used the indigenous dialect (i.e., the rural Jordanian East-Bank dialect) to express solidarity and address indigenous ethnic aspirations. Consequently, the success of the Fourth Circle protests can be summarized in three great achievements, which are: (1) Prime Minister Hani Mulki’s resignation; (2) cancellation of the income-tax law;...
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Journal of Language Teaching and Research
This study aims to identify the purposes of passive construction in political news reports. The s... more This study aims to identify the purposes of passive construction in political news reports. The study also examines how the use of passive voice affects readers' attitudes towards political issues. The use of passive voice can lead to ambiguity, affecting the clarity of meaning by hiding the identity of the doer of the action. However, being vague about the doer of the action is primarily deliberate in political news to serve particular purposes. To collect data, the researchers refer to three newspapers, namely The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian. Some articles discussing political issues were carefully chosen from those newspapers. The analysis of the results reveals that the passive voice is used in the selected political news reports to fulfill four main purposes; first, when the journalist emphasizes the action rather than the doer of the action, he omits by phrase, replacing it with marginal information. Second, when the subject of the sentence i...
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This study observes the use of Facebook in the complex social phenomenon, natural disasters. By a... more This study observes the use of Facebook in the complex social phenomenon, natural disasters. By adopting an affordance perspective, this study emphasis on how local Jordanian communities harness the power of Facebook during the 2018 Dead Sea flash flood. Through using an interpretive approach, three affordances of Facebook were identified, namely, disaster warning, volunteer mobilization, and the coordination of response and recovery. Then, the researchers examined how these affordances helped the Jordanian communities to respond to disaster situations and achieve social outcomes during the floods. Based on the data analysis, it has been noticed that Facebook changed the way individuals; organizations, activists, and government respond and act to the challenges posed by a disaster. This study contributes to the emerging literature on the use of Facebook in natural disasters in the Jordanian context. There is a hope that this research could inspire more researchers about the use of e...
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The explicit meaning of speech may not express the intended meaning and may lead to ambiguity in ... more The explicit meaning of speech may not express the intended meaning and may lead to ambiguity in speech communication. The current study aims to explain how pragmatics can facilitate an understanding of the speech communications and convey the intended meaning. Furthermore, the study shows how encapsulated (implicit) meaning in many phenomena of pragmatics may fundamentally influence the nature and the quality of translation between Arabic, and English languages. In this regard, the study demonstrates the pertinence of pragmatics theories for translators’ work by providing authentic examples of translation between Arabic, and English languages. It argues how a pragmatically oriented process can perform the balance in human communication to avoid breakdowns of communication.
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International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 2020
This study investigated the effect of using Google Classroom on the reading and writing performan... more This study investigated the effect of using Google Classroom on the reading and writing performance of diploma students with English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Irbid, Jordan. It aimed to investigate the attitudes of students toward using Google Classroom as an innovative online platform. A total of 26 EFL Syrian diploma students participated in this study; the participants sat in one intact group. The researchers employed a quasi-experimental design and one-group pretest-posttest design based on the quantitative data. The data were collected through a reading and writing test and a questionnaire. According to the results of the study, Google Classroom improved the reading and writing performance of Syrian students. Students showed positive attitudes toward using Google Classroom in terms of its ease of use, usefulness, and accessibility. Future studies should analyze the effectiveness of Google Classroom with respect to other contexts. This study affirmed the liability of utiliz...
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Arab World English Journal, 2019
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International Journal of English Linguistics, 2019
English language learning beliefs play a key role in the language learning process, especially am... more English language learning beliefs play a key role in the language learning process, especially among EFL (English as a foreign language) learners. This study seeks to clarify English learning beliefs among EFL students in Jordan, and to examine whether female and male learners differ in these beliefs. Horwitz’s (1987) Language Learning Beliefs Inventory (BALLI) was adapted to gather relevant data from 83 English major participants at a private university during regular classes. Frequency analysis and T-tests were then performed utilizing SPSS. The findings demonstrate that while Jordanian students are not sure about language difficulty, they are highly enthusiastic about learning the English language. Furthermore, female and male students only had significantly different results in two aspects of BALLI: 1) motivation and expectations and 2) difficulty of language learning. Hopefully, the results will provide constructive insights to lecturers concerning students’ beliefs about learn...
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International Journal of Linguistics, 2017
The study investigates the types of speech acts in the status updates posted by young Jordanian F... more The study investigates the types of speech acts in the status updates posted by young Jordanian Facebookers. The data were elicited from 200 students from two Jordanian universities, Irbid National University and Jadara University. To deal with content analysis data, the researchers created a special scheme based on Searel’s taxonomy. Six speech acts were found in students’ status updates on Facebook: expressive, assertive, directives, God’s invocation, quotation and humor. Also the study findings evidently indicate that the cultural norms and religious background profoundly rooted in all participants can strongly affect their linguistic choices in their native language. It is hoped that the results would help those involved in teaching and learning Arabic as a second/foreign language.
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For the English as a Second Language (ESL) students, reading is an essential activity for obtaini... more For the English as a Second Language (ESL) students, reading is an essential activity for obtaining information. Studies have indicated that readers spontaneously used reading strategies in the process of comprehending text (Pritchard, 1990). Previous investigations also discovered that the use of appropriate strategies could enhance reading comprehension (Olsen & Gee, 1991). Most educators lack the knowledge of what their students do while attempting to comprehend reading materials; very often, they are ...
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Kurdish Studies, 2024
This study is a descriptive-analytical investigation of the depiction of nature in classical and ... more This study is a descriptive-analytical investigation of the depiction of nature in classical and modern Arabic poetry. It focuses on analyzing the similar themes and concepts used by Arabic poets of different ages. The study adopts some theoretical and practical approaches of Russian Formalism that focus on studying the textual literary devices of texts. It concentrates on showing the images of nature in Arabic poetry by analyzing its images, structures, metaphors, similes, and themes. The sample of the study is some Arabic pre-Islamic, classical, and modern poems by Imru al-Qais, Turfah Ibn al-Abed, Al-Bohtory, Abu-Tammam, Khalil Mutran, Nizar Qabbani, and Ahmad Shawqi. This study considers nature as a thematic contemplation that every poet depicts similarly. This investigation lies in its purpose to provide a stylistic study focusing on Arabic poets' response to nature in its beautiful images in a stylistic method. This study concludes that Arabic poets tackle nature as a symbol of pleasure, peace, and enjoyment. It presents that despite the temporal, special, traditional, and linguistic differences, these Arabic poets share many similar attitudes toward nature. In the end, Nature is portrayed symbolically as a motif to live and adapt happily in life.
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International Journal of English Language Education, 2020
The study aimed to investigate the attitude of 36 participants on using Sms in their conversation... more The study aimed to investigate the attitude of 36 participants on using Sms in their conversation and writing. To achieve the study objectives, a questionnaire was developed and reliability and validity of the questionnaire were checked. The study sample consisted of 36 using Sms. twelve of them were parents. The results of the study indicated that each of the three groups use Sms differently. Sms English is used for communication by the majority as it saves time, space and easy to use. Finally, in light of the results, future studies should analyze the use of Sms English with respect to other participants. Research undertaking a bigger sample should be done to arrive at a more concrete conclusion.
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ACADEMY PUBLICATION, 2023
This study critically investigates the discourse of Facebook posts on Jordan's Fourth Circle prot... more This study critically investigates the discourse of Facebook posts on Jordan's Fourth Circle protests. The Facebook posts are considered to be protest discourse, with ideological imprints of positive "we" in-group representations and negative "they" out-group descriptions. Utilizing a critical-discourse analysis method, this study reveals that Facebook posts were efficiently used to define the ethnonational identity of the participants and to describe their goals and activities, as well as to provide continual updates on the protests. The activists used linguistic strategies (e.g., rural terms, pronouns, and humorous posts). The activists purposefully used the indigenous dialect (i.e., the rural Jordanian East-Bank dialect) to express solidarity and address indigenous ethnic aspirations. Consequently, the success of the Fourth Circle protests can be summarized in three great achievements, which are: (1) Prime Minister Hani Mulki's resignation; (2) cancellation of the income-tax law; and (3) solutions that reduced the cost of living to a more acceptable rate.
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Journal of Positive School Psychology, 2022
The aim of this study is to investigate private Jordanian universities' use of social networking ... more The aim of this study is to investigate private Jordanian universities' use of social networking sites, and its impact on the provided information services from the perspective of the directors themselves. It also identifies some of the difficulties and obstacles that limit the use on those sites in the libraries of the study populations. A questionnaire was used as a measurement tool, and the study's population consisted of the directors of Jordanian private university libraries for the academic year 2019-2020. Of the contacted 17 directors in the sample, 13 responded, which constitutes 76.47% participation. Surveys and both historical approaches and case study were used as they constitute an appropriate method for studies of this kind. The study finds that library study samples' use of social networking sites was very weak, with an average score of 2.17, which indicates lack of its impact specifically on the improvement of the services they provide, where the total impact score was 0.468. The study also finds many difficulties and obstacles limiting the use of library directors in private Jordanian universities of social networking. The most prominent result was the weakness of their systems and of the instructions used to guide the establishment of websites for the study population. In that light, the study recommends urgent use of social networking sites among private university library directors in their libraries and using them to improve the services that they provide for the benefit of the community.
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Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences, 2024
ChatGPT has attracted the greatest attention in higher education, especially concerning how it ca... more ChatGPT has attracted the greatest attention in higher education, especially concerning how it can support and enhance learning and instructional activities. This paper aims to present a critical review of the advantages and disadvantages that result from integrating ChatGPT into higher education. This study designed an online questionnaire. The online questionnaires were shared with undergraduate students at three Jordanian universities: Applied Science Private University, Jerash, and Petra via WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Email, and LinkedIn. According to this research, the advantages of CHATGPT are saving time, getting immediate answers to various questions, writing for projects and homework, aiding in language learning, unified feedback, further learning material, and greater accessibility of information. Of course, there are disadvantages too: less critical thinking, only partial language capacity, incomplete knowledge of subjects, developing dependency on technology, misinformation, data privacy, and biased responses. The study concludes by recommending CHATGPT as a useful source of information, but its users must be sensitive to limitations and possible inaccuracies about the subject matter; fact-checking procedures must be done to establish whether the material is correct. Further, great care must be taken when using ChatGPT professionally to protect sensitive and secret information.
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This study aims to investigate linguistics modification in teacher’s discourse in an English for ... more This study aims to investigate linguistics modification in teacher’s discourse in an English for medical purposes (EMP) classroom at one of the medical colleges in Saudi Arabia. Linguistic modification in teacher’s talk is essential part of classroom interaction as it facilitates students’ understanding by reducing complexity of syntactic structures and the use of familiar structures and words. Data in this study were collected through classroom observation and informal chats with the teacher. 15 classroom observations were carried out during the First Semester of the academic year 2019/2020. When necessary, informal chats with the teacher took place at the end of observation session to get further clarification of what had happened in the classroom. The teacher talk can be described as having high frequency of self-repetition, exaggerated pronunciation, slower rate of speech, avoiding contractions, use of short sentences and phrases, paraphrasing, avoiding idioms and unfamiliar words, and pausing were marked in teacher talk. Phonological, semantic and syntactic modifications in teacher talk ensured input comprehensibility, avoided confusion and encouraged classroom participation. This study concludes that linguistic modifications in teacher talk are necessary to ensure input comprehensibility and support students’ engagement in classroom interactions. Keywords: Classroom interaction, discourse analysis, English for medical purposes, linguistic modification, teacher talk. Cite as: Al-smadi, O.A., Yassin, B., &Al-Bataineh, K.B. (2020). Linguistics modifications in teacher talk in English for medical purposes classroom. Trends in Social Sciences, 2(2), 10-22.
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This study critically investigates the discourse of Facebook posts on Jordan’s Fourth Circle prot... more This study critically investigates the discourse of Facebook posts on Jordan’s Fourth Circle protests. The Facebook posts are considered to be protest discourse, with ideological imprints of positive “we” in-group representations and negative “they” out-group descriptions. Utilizing a critical-discourse analysis method, this study reveals that Facebook posts were efficiently used to define the ethnonational identity of the participants and to describe their goals and activities, as well as to provide continual updates on the protests. The activists used linguistic strategies (e.g., rural terms, pronouns, and humorous posts). The activists purposefully used the indigenous dialect (i.e., the rural Jordanian East-Bank dialect) to express solidarity and address indigenous ethnic aspirations. Consequently, the success of the Fourth Circle protests can be summarized in three great achievements, which are: (1) Prime Minister Hani Mulki’s resignation; (2) cancellation of the income-tax law;...
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This study aims to identify the purposes of passive construction in political news reports. The s... more This study aims to identify the purposes of passive construction in political news reports. The study also examines how the use of passive voice affects readers' attitudes towards political issues. The use of passive voice can lead to ambiguity, affecting the clarity of meaning by hiding the identity of the doer of the action. However, being vague about the doer of the action is primarily deliberate in political news to serve particular purposes. To collect data, the researchers refer to three newspapers, namely The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian. Some articles discussing political issues were carefully chosen from those newspapers. The analysis of the results reveals that the passive voice is used in the selected political news reports to fulfill four main purposes; first, when the journalist emphasizes the action rather than the doer of the action, he omits by phrase, replacing it with marginal information. Second, when the subject of the sentence i...
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This study observes the use of Facebook in the complex social phenomenon, natural disasters. By a... more This study observes the use of Facebook in the complex social phenomenon, natural disasters. By adopting an affordance perspective, this study emphasis on how local Jordanian communities harness the power of Facebook during the 2018 Dead Sea flash flood. Through using an interpretive approach, three affordances of Facebook were identified, namely, disaster warning, volunteer mobilization, and the coordination of response and recovery. Then, the researchers examined how these affordances helped the Jordanian communities to respond to disaster situations and achieve social outcomes during the floods. Based on the data analysis, it has been noticed that Facebook changed the way individuals; organizations, activists, and government respond and act to the challenges posed by a disaster. This study contributes to the emerging literature on the use of Facebook in natural disasters in the Jordanian context. There is a hope that this research could inspire more researchers about the use of e...
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The explicit meaning of speech may not express the intended meaning and may lead to ambiguity in ... more The explicit meaning of speech may not express the intended meaning and may lead to ambiguity in speech communication. The current study aims to explain how pragmatics can facilitate an understanding of the speech communications and convey the intended meaning. Furthermore, the study shows how encapsulated (implicit) meaning in many phenomena of pragmatics may fundamentally influence the nature and the quality of translation between Arabic, and English languages. In this regard, the study demonstrates the pertinence of pragmatics theories for translators’ work by providing authentic examples of translation between Arabic, and English languages. It argues how a pragmatically oriented process can perform the balance in human communication to avoid breakdowns of communication.
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International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 2020
This study investigated the effect of using Google Classroom on the reading and writing performan... more This study investigated the effect of using Google Classroom on the reading and writing performance of diploma students with English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Irbid, Jordan. It aimed to investigate the attitudes of students toward using Google Classroom as an innovative online platform. A total of 26 EFL Syrian diploma students participated in this study; the participants sat in one intact group. The researchers employed a quasi-experimental design and one-group pretest-posttest design based on the quantitative data. The data were collected through a reading and writing test and a questionnaire. According to the results of the study, Google Classroom improved the reading and writing performance of Syrian students. Students showed positive attitudes toward using Google Classroom in terms of its ease of use, usefulness, and accessibility. Future studies should analyze the effectiveness of Google Classroom with respect to other contexts. This study affirmed the liability of utiliz...
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English language learning beliefs play a key role in the language learning process, especially am... more English language learning beliefs play a key role in the language learning process, especially among EFL (English as a foreign language) learners. This study seeks to clarify English learning beliefs among EFL students in Jordan, and to examine whether female and male learners differ in these beliefs. Horwitz’s (1987) Language Learning Beliefs Inventory (BALLI) was adapted to gather relevant data from 83 English major participants at a private university during regular classes. Frequency analysis and T-tests were then performed utilizing SPSS. The findings demonstrate that while Jordanian students are not sure about language difficulty, they are highly enthusiastic about learning the English language. Furthermore, female and male students only had significantly different results in two aspects of BALLI: 1) motivation and expectations and 2) difficulty of language learning. Hopefully, the results will provide constructive insights to lecturers concerning students’ beliefs about learn...
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The study investigates the types of speech acts in the status updates posted by young Jordanian F... more The study investigates the types of speech acts in the status updates posted by young Jordanian Facebookers. The data were elicited from 200 students from two Jordanian universities, Irbid National University and Jadara University. To deal with content analysis data, the researchers created a special scheme based on Searel’s taxonomy. Six speech acts were found in students’ status updates on Facebook: expressive, assertive, directives, God’s invocation, quotation and humor. Also the study findings evidently indicate that the cultural norms and religious background profoundly rooted in all participants can strongly affect their linguistic choices in their native language. It is hoped that the results would help those involved in teaching and learning Arabic as a second/foreign language.
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For the English as a Second Language (ESL) students, reading is an essential activity for obtaini... more For the English as a Second Language (ESL) students, reading is an essential activity for obtaining information. Studies have indicated that readers spontaneously used reading strategies in the process of comprehending text (Pritchard, 1990). Previous investigations also discovered that the use of appropriate strategies could enhance reading comprehension (Olsen & Gee, 1991). Most educators lack the knowledge of what their students do while attempting to comprehend reading materials; very often, they are ...
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This study is a descriptive-analytical investigation of the depiction of nature in classical and ... more This study is a descriptive-analytical investigation of the depiction of nature in classical and modern Arabic poetry. It focuses on analyzing the similar themes and concepts used by Arabic poets of different ages. The study adopts some theoretical and practical approaches of Russian Formalism that focus on studying the textual literary devices of texts. It concentrates on showing the images of nature in Arabic poetry by analyzing its images, structures, metaphors, similes, and themes. The sample of the study is some Arabic pre-Islamic, classical, and modern poems by Imru al-Qais, Turfah Ibn al-Abed, Al-Bohtory, Abu-Tammam, Khalil Mutran, Nizar Qabbani, and Ahmad Shawqi. This study considers nature as a thematic contemplation that every poet depicts similarly. This investigation lies in its purpose to provide a stylistic study focusing on Arabic poets' response to nature in its beautiful images in a stylistic method. This study concludes that Arabic poets tackle nature as a symbol of pleasure, peace, and enjoyment. It presents that despite the temporal, special, traditional, and linguistic differences, these Arabic poets share many similar attitudes toward nature. In the end, Nature is portrayed symbolically as a motif to live and adapt happily in life.
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The study aimed to investigate the attitude of 36 participants on using Sms in their conversation... more The study aimed to investigate the attitude of 36 participants on using Sms in their conversation and writing. To achieve the study objectives, a questionnaire was developed and reliability and validity of the questionnaire were checked. The study sample consisted of 36 using Sms. twelve of them were parents. The results of the study indicated that each of the three groups use Sms differently. Sms English is used for communication by the majority as it saves time, space and easy to use. Finally, in light of the results, future studies should analyze the use of Sms English with respect to other participants. Research undertaking a bigger sample should be done to arrive at a more concrete conclusion.
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This study critically investigates the discourse of Facebook posts on Jordan's Fourth Circle prot... more This study critically investigates the discourse of Facebook posts on Jordan's Fourth Circle protests. The Facebook posts are considered to be protest discourse, with ideological imprints of positive "we" in-group representations and negative "they" out-group descriptions. Utilizing a critical-discourse analysis method, this study reveals that Facebook posts were efficiently used to define the ethnonational identity of the participants and to describe their goals and activities, as well as to provide continual updates on the protests. The activists used linguistic strategies (e.g., rural terms, pronouns, and humorous posts). The activists purposefully used the indigenous dialect (i.e., the rural Jordanian East-Bank dialect) to express solidarity and address indigenous ethnic aspirations. Consequently, the success of the Fourth Circle protests can be summarized in three great achievements, which are: (1) Prime Minister Hani Mulki's resignation; (2) cancellation of the income-tax law; and (3) solutions that reduced the cost of living to a more acceptable rate.
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The aim of this study is to investigate private Jordanian universities' use of social networking ... more The aim of this study is to investigate private Jordanian universities' use of social networking sites, and its impact on the provided information services from the perspective of the directors themselves. It also identifies some of the difficulties and obstacles that limit the use on those sites in the libraries of the study populations. A questionnaire was used as a measurement tool, and the study's population consisted of the directors of Jordanian private university libraries for the academic year 2019-2020. Of the contacted 17 directors in the sample, 13 responded, which constitutes 76.47% participation. Surveys and both historical approaches and case study were used as they constitute an appropriate method for studies of this kind. The study finds that library study samples' use of social networking sites was very weak, with an average score of 2.17, which indicates lack of its impact specifically on the improvement of the services they provide, where the total impact score was 0.468. The study also finds many difficulties and obstacles limiting the use of library directors in private Jordanian universities of social networking. The most prominent result was the weakness of their systems and of the instructions used to guide the establishment of websites for the study population. In that light, the study recommends urgent use of social networking sites among private university library directors in their libraries and using them to improve the services that they provide for the benefit of the community.
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