The study explores the effect of using new instructional design models in online English literature courses in higher education and explores the effect of their use on students’ performance. This is to assure sustainability in higher education. The study shows the effect of using ADDIE instructional design model along with universal design for learning on students’ performance in online English literature courses in higher education. The study also highlights the major challenges that university professors face when applying the two designs together in online learning. A quantitative approach is applied by distributing a five-part questionnaire to 47 English literature professors from different universities in Jordan who are asked to use both models when planning their online courses. In the last part of the questionnaire, these professors are asked to state the main challenges that they face and are exposed to when applying the two designs together in online learning process. The results of the study reveal that students’ performance increased. There are a few studies that have been conducted to explore new instructional design models to be used in planning online English literature courses in higher education and their effect on students’ performance to assure education sustainability.

The explores the impact of using both ADDIE Model, which stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation, as an instructional design and UDL in planning for English Literature Online courses during COVID-19 in higher education from the perspective of the students. Up to the researcher’s knowledge, no prior studies have been conducted to explore the effect of the use of ADDIE model and UDL in online English Literature courses for graduate students in universities or other forms of higher education from the perspective of the students. A quantitative approach was used for collecting the data, where a four-part questionnaire was distributed to 90 students, who were randomly chosen from the students of a group of English Literature professors from different public and private universities in Jordan, who were asked to plan for their online English Literature courses through integrating both the ADDIE model, with its principles of Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation, and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) with its principles of Engagement, Representation, Action and Expression. As a conclusion, the study shows the positive impact of using both ADDIE Instructional Design Model and UDL in English Literature Online courses on the students’ performance from the perspective of the students.

Drawing upon the theory of postcolonialism in tandem with Edward Said’s views on Orientalism, this study explores the East/West binary oppositions in Isabella Hammad’s The Parisian. In this study, we treat the novel as a corpus consisting of 196,000 words and adopt a corpus linguistics (CL) approach to literature by using the corpus software Antconc. The analysis reveals a group of postcolonial binary oppositions related to three categories, namely, characteristics, geography, and characters. The contribution of the current study is twofold. First, the application of CL extends the current line of research of an under researched area by bringing together CL and literary studies. Second, it highlights the East/West binary oppositions in diaspora literature.   Received: 17 April 2023 / Accepted: 20 June 2023 / Published: 5 July 2023

Learning a foreign language may create issues among students, as they may perceive it as complex, difficult, or alien. These feelings are harmful to forming a positive perception among students, regarded as one of the essential aspects of learning. This study aims to identify the effectiveness of using student-created questions for assessing students’ performance in English grammar. The sample included 79 tenth-grade students in King Abdullah Schools of Excellence in Jordan. The study revealed that the student-centered approach is crucial in today's classrooms because it fosters students' feeling of self-efficacy and helps them see their potential. Particularly in the secondary and college levels, the active involvement of students is emphasised as bringing openness and creativity to a more conventional classroom. Students who are consistently engaged in the development of questions and self-evaluation are better able to recognize their areas of strength and weakness and are further motivated to engage in self-repair. Students perform better when assessments are used in the classroom that are focused on them as individuals. Since it promotes self-actualization, intrinsic motivation is more effective than extrinsic motivation. By taking into account, this component of education and student performance create a learning environment that can inspire students to learn on their own can help them build the mindset for lifelong learning. It gives students a sense of control in the classroom by using questions they have written as part of the evaluation process. As a result of these elements, students become more motivated as they actively participate in the teaching-learning process. The study recommends using the student-generated questions in the classroom as it leads to effective teaching as they help the students practice various writing and reading skills. In many instances, evaluation in the classroom utilizing student-created questions reveals a significant increase in writing and reading abilities. Using this kind of evaluation, students may also engage in healthy competition.

This study aims to show how formative assessment that is assisted by technology can improve student learning in English literature courses in higher education. Moreover, it explores how the use of technology could help implement formative assessment by the instructors to assure student learning in English literature courses in an efficient and timely manner. Formative assessment is somewhat new for higher education instructors, especially those who teach English literature. Applying this type of assessment is, unfortunately, not easy and the results are not always ideal. Nevertheless, to reach the goals of the study, a quantitative method is distributed to 50 English literature instructors from higher educational institutions that recently started implementing technology in their formative assessments. The significance of the study lies in the fact that the study is conducted in a region where formative assessment has recently been used in education, specifically in higher education English literature courses. The contribution also lies in how technology can help implement formative assessment, overcome any obstacles, and thus ensure student learning. The findings of the study show significant awareness of formative assessment in higher education, and especially among instructors of English literature. The findings also indicate that implementing technology with formative assessments enhances students’ learning in English literature course in higher education after COVID-19.