Browsing Education, Humanities and Social Sciences by Author "Altakhaineh, Abdel Rahman Mitib"
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The Acquisition of Basic Word Order by Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Altakhaineh, Abdel Rahman Mitib; Alkhatib, Razan N.; Alhendi, Hiba (Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University, 2022)Purpose. This paper reports on an investigation of Arabic word order acquisition by twelve Jordanian children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and the reasons for this order of acquisition. This study researched the ... -
Degemination in Emirati Pidgin Arabic: A Sociolinguistic Perspective
Altakhaineh, Abdel Rahman Mitib; Al-Namer, Abdul-Salam; Alnamer, Sulafah (MDPI, 2022)This study examines the production of geminates in Emirati Pidgin Arabic (EPA) spoken by blue-collar workers in the United Arab Emirates. A simple naming test was designed to test the production of geminates to determine ... -
The effect of flipped classroom instruction on developing emirati EFL learners' pragmatic competence
Hazaymeh, Wafa A.; Altakhaineh, Abdel Rahman Mitib (Society for Research and Knowledge Management., 2019)This study investigates the effect of flipped classroom instruction on developing Emirati EFL learners' pragmatic competence. It compares flipped classroom instruction with the conventional method of developing learners' ... -
The effect of gender on the perception of pre-service teachers towards their instructors and students
Altakhaineh, Abdel Rahman Mitib; Alomery, Moath K.; Alkaddour, Noor Z. (Journal for the Education of Gifted Young Scientists, 2020)This study examines the attitude of pre-service teachers towards the gender of their instructors and students at schools during the practicum in the city of Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates. This study is motivated by ... -
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 ... -
The effect of the gender and culture of the IELTS examiner on the examinees’ performance on the IELTs speaking test in the UAE context
Altakhaineh, Abdel Rahman Mitib; Al-Tkhayneh, Khawlah M.; Rahrouh, Hanan N. (Librairie du Liban Publishers, 2019)This study examined the effect of the gender and culture of the IELTS examiner on the performance of Arab examinees on the IELTS speaking test. It relied on Communication Accommodation Theory to account for the linguistic ... -
The impact of Facebookers' posts on other users' attitudes according to their age and gender: Evidence from Al Ain University of Science and Technology
Altakhaineh, Abdel Rahman Mitib; Alnamer, Sulafah Abdul Salam (MDPI AG., 2018)This study aims at exploring the reasons that drive many Facebookers to share negative posts on Facebook, with a special focus on their gender and age. It also aims at identifying the negative attitudes and feelings that ... -
An intertextuality perspective on Noah's Story in the Quran
Altakhaineh, Abdel Rahman Mitib (Academic Research Publishing Group, 2019)This study aims to analyse verses from the Quran in relation to Noah's story from an intertextuality perspective. The analysis focuses on three main aspects, namely, unravelling the discoursal meaning of ard 'land' in ... -
Measuring the total knowledge of english sports terminology by the physical education students at Saudi universities
El-Saleh, Majed Saleem; Altakhaineh, Abdel Rahman Mitib; Masoudi, Maher Madani (Asian Exercise and Sport Science Association, 2019)Background. Given the importance of English a global language and one of the four official languages used in FIFA, it is essential to acquaint students who are specialised in Physical Education with English sport terminology. ... -
Non-native speakers’ attitudes towards the use of short Arabic stories in language classes
Musleh, Omran Ahmed; Ibrahim, Mohamed Abdelrahman; Altakhaineh, Abdel Rahman Mitib (Selcuk University, 2020)This study aims to investigate the attitudes of non-Arabic students towards reading short stories in Arabic at universities in Malaysia, with a focus on three variables: the students’ university, gender, and mother tongue. ... -
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 ... -
The semantic change of positive vs. Negative adjectives in Modern English
Altakhaineh, Abdel Rahman Mitib (Sciendo, 2018)This study examines two types of semantic change, namely amelioration and pejoration, through comparing the positive/negative senses of 20 English adjectives over time in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). It also aims ... -
Teaching antonyms to Arabic-speaking EFL learners
Altakhaineh, Abdel Rahman Mitib; Hajjo, Maram H. (Kassel University Press GmbH, 2019)This study investigates the impact of different teaching techniques, e.g. projecting pictures using an overhead projector and the traditional way of teaching, in improving Arabic-speaking EFL learners' production of antonyms ... -
The Use of Jordanian Arabic Possessive Pronouns by Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Alkhatib, Razan N.; Altakhaineh, Abdel Rahman Mitib (Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University, 2023)Aim. This study aimed to investigate the use of different Jordanian Arabic possessive pronouns by children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and explore the influence of their IQ on the usage of possessive pronouns and ... -
The use of twitter and facebook in teaching mechanics of writing to Arabic-speaking EFL learners
Altakhaineh, Abdel Rahman Mitib; Aljallad, Majed Zaki (Kassel University Press GmbH., 2018)This study aims to compare the effect of Twitter and Facebook in teaching 20 Arabic-speaking EFL learners L2 mechanics of writing in an attempt to determine which tool is more effective. We adopted the experimental design ...