Cross-language information seeking behaviour English vs Arabic

Abstract

Investigating the anomalous states of knowledge hypothesis in a real-life problem situation: A study of history and psychology undergraduates seeking information for a course essay.

Exploring the scholarly communication styles of Arab social science and humanities scholars

“…Consistent with prior evidence that Arab scholars use similar searching styles while seeking information in the Arabic and English language (Al-Wreikat et al, 2015;Elgllab & Shehata, 2017;Shehata, 2017), the current study results showed that the participants use almost the same methods to seek, locate, and download scholarly information. Google and Google Scholar were found to be the primary tools used by the participants to seek information and locate scholarly papers.…”

“…Furthermore, many Arab scholars in these fields lack English proficiency, isolating them from the rest of the world. Many studies have mentioned the same issues (Al‐Wreikat et al ., ;Elgllab & Shehata, ; Shehata & Eldakar, ); however, no efforts are being undertaken to overcome this issue.…”

“…Many studies have mentioned the same issues (Al-Wreikat et al, 2015;Elgllab & Shehata, 2017 ;Shehata & Eldakar, 2018); however, no efforts are being undertaken to overcome this issue.…”

“…The interviews also showed that Arabic is predominantly used to search for information as 29 participants stated that they prefer doing so. These results confirm the findings in the literature, which pointed out that many Arab scholars use Arabic to search for information (Al‐Wreikat et al ., ; Elgllab & Shehata, ). It was obvious during the interviews that the language used to seek information is linked with language proficiency.…”

“…The questionnaire showed that only 25.24% of the participants were using the English language to find information, while 79.76% were using the Arabic language to find information. The results were consistent with the literature as previous studies indicated that the English language is an obstacle for many researchers in the Arab regions (Al‐Wreikat et al ., ; Elgllab & Shehata, ; Marouf & Anwar, ).…”