The contemplator of mathematics teaching notes that the educational outcomes have not reached the acceptable level in the State of Kuwait; It is punctuated by many problems, represented by the low educational attainment of students, so the current study aimed to reveal the effectiveness of a proposed training program based on professional competencies in the light of international standards in developing the teaching performance of mathematics teachers at the intermediate stage in Kuwait. the descriptive analytical approach, the constructivist approach, and the quasi-experimental approach. To achieve the objectives of the study, a teaching competency questionnaire, a note card, and a training program based on professional competencies were prepared. The study sample consisted of 30 middle school mathematics teachers (the eighth-grade teachers). The study tools were applied to them, appropriate statistical analyzes were performed and quantitative results were extracted. The results of the study showed that the professional competencies that mathematics teachers at the intermediate stage in the State of Kuwait should master in light of international standards came within a medium degree of proficiency; The field of teaching implementation competencies came in the first place, and in the second place came the field of teaching planning competencies. In the third and final place came the field of teaching evaluation competencies. The results also showed that there were statistically significant differences at the significance level (α = 0.05) between the scores of the quasi-experimental group members on the teaching performance in favor of the post-measurement. The study recommended the necessity of paying attention to the professional competencies of mathematics educators in the intermediate stage, by holding specialized in-service courses that include theoretical and practical mathematical and educational knowledge and information. And the need to pay

This study discussed the application of translating strategies from Arabic language to Bahasa Melayu in the form of audiovisual, which is the subtitling of an Arabic animated drama entitled "Musa Kalimullah'. Poor quality of subtitling, and low competency of both the subtitlist's source language and viewers' foreign language are the challenges in this field. Public's lack of understanding on the process and problems in subtitling and the difficulties of translating idiomatic language and cultural elements also triggered this study to be conducted in order to improve the quality of subtitling. The objectives of this research is to identify translating strategies applied by the subtitlist in interpreting Arabic dialogue, besides analyzing the most commonly used translating strategies in audiovisual translation. This study is qualitative in nature which used content analysis to gather data. It is based on Newmark's translating strategies. The corpus used for this study are two episodes, which are the ninth and thirteenth episode. A total of three scences containing 22 sampels of dialogues and subtitles are used. Findings revealed the applied translating strategies are literal translating, transposition, synonyms, omission, reduction, functional matching and cultural matching. Based on the selected samples, the application of literal translating is the highes. This study also found that the subtitlist tend to apply written textual translating method in audiovisual translation by applying literal translating stratigies in each dialogue, whereas indirect translating strategies such as omission and reduction are rarely used.