Browsing by Author "Zibin, Aseel"
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The conceptualization of tolerance in the UAE press media: A case study of ‘the year of tolerance’
Zibin, Aseel; Abdullah, Abdulrahman Dheyab (Walter de Gruyter GmbH., 2019)This study investigates the conceptualisation of tolerance via metaphors in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) press media after proclaiming 2019 as the ‘Year of Tolerance’. The results revealed that various source domains are ... -
The effect of incidental learning on the comprehension of english affixes by Arabic-speaking EFL learners: Acquisition and application
Altakhaineh, Abdel Rahman Mitib; Zibin, Aseel (Walter de Gruyter GmbH., 2017)This study aims to examine the effect of incidental learning on the comprehension of 30 English affixes by 50 Arabic-speaking EFL learners in an attempt to determine which affixes are more easily comprehended. We adopt the ... -
On the comprehension of metonymical expressions by Arabic-speaking EFL learners: A cognitive linguistic approach
Zibin, Aseel; Altakhaineh, Abdel Rahman Mitib; Hussein, Elham T. (Sciendo, 2020)This study aims to examine the comprehension of L2 metonymies by Arabic-speaking EFL learners and to investigate the extent to which the participants’ L1 conceptual and linguistic knowledge of metonymies can affect the ...