English in the Jordanian Context

Hamdan, Jihad M.; Hatab, Wafa Abu

doi:10.1111/j.1467-971x.2009.01599.x

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“…The emergence and dominance of the English language in today's society cannot be ignored and, as such, it has had profound effects not only on the ways in which we do business but also on the education of the next generation (Sharifian 2009). Learning English is considered to be a high priority by the government of Jordan and, as a result, is a compulsory university-level subject that students are required to pass (Hamdan and Hatab 2009).…”

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Learning English as a second language at the university level in Jordan: motivation, self-regulation and learning environment perceptions

Alzubaidi

Aldridge

Khine

2014

Learning Environ Res

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The overarching aim of this study was to investigate students' perceptions of the learning environment and whether these influenced their motivation and self-regulation in learning English as a second language at the university level in Jordan. Our sample involved 994 students, drawn from 13 schools, within three faculties (humanities, health sciences and engineering) of one university. The collection of data involved the administration of two surveys: one to assess students' perceptions of the learning environment and another to assess students' motivation and self-regulation in learning English as a second language. The results of analyses strongly supported the reliability and validity of the surveys when used at the university level in Jordan, thereby providing confidence in the results of the present study. Simple correlation and multiple regression analysis were used to examine the influence of students' perceptions of the learning environment of English language classes on self-reports of motivation and self-regulation. Statistically significant (p \ 0.05) simple correlations were found between students' perceptions of their learning environment and their motivation and self-regulation. The regression weights (β) indicated that scales of the learning environment were positively, statistically significantly (p \ 0.05) and independently related to the motivation and self-regulation outcomes.Keywords English as a second language · Learning environment · Motivation · Self-regulation · Student adaptive learning engagement · What Is Happening In this Class? (WIHIC) Background

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Aldridge

Khine

2014

Learning Environ Res

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“…English is not the Local Language The use of English in the specific organizational communication genre of job ads in EFL countries has been commented on in scholarly publications relating to, for example, Finland [22], [23]; Germany [13], [24], [25]; Jordan [3]; Sweden [5]; Switzerland [6]; and Turkey [2]. Corpus analyses of the use of English in job ads in non-English-speaking countries have shown that job ads can be completely or partly in English.…”

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“…For instance, an analysis of 419 advertisements from two Turkish daily newspapers by Dogancay-Aktuna [2] revealed that 22% were completely in English. Hamdan and Hatab [3] analyzed a corpus of nearly 3000 job ads from two Jordanian daily Arabic newspapers, published in 1985, 1995, and 2005. They found that the use of completely English job ads in these newspapers increased from 4% (1985) to 23% (1995) and to 29% (2005).…”

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Reasons for Using English or the Local Language in the Genre of Job Advertisements: Insights From Interviews With Dutch Job Ad Designers

Meurs

Planken

Korzilius

et al. 2015

IEEE Trans. Profess. Commun.

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Research problem: This study provides insight into practitioners' reasons for choosing a particular language (English versus the local language) in the genre of job ads in countries where English is a foreign language (EFL countries). Scholarly publications and public discourse have suggested reasons for language choice, but these were not based on the perspectives of practitioners. Research questions: (1) What reasons do Dutch job ad writers give for using all-English, all-Dutch, or partly English ads and what genre factors inform these reasons? (2) To what extent do the reasons given by Dutch job ad makers for using all-English, all-Dutch, or partly English ads complement reasons mentioned in publications on job ads? Literature review: Genre theory identifies three factors as important determinants of genre: contextual factors (such as characteristics of the organization and the sector in which the genre is produced), reader-writer factors (characteristics of the genre's target audience and author), and textual factors (the genre's content, structure, and wording). The reasons mentioned for the use of all-English job ads are that English is the organization's corporate language and that the organization is looking for English-speaking candidates. The reasons given for the use of job ads in the local language are that English is less clear than the local language and that English words are strange and exaggerated compared to equivalents in the local language. Among the reasons mentioned for the use of partly English job ads are that English words attract more attention than equivalents in the local language and that English job titles sound more modern and have more status than equivalent job titles in the local language. Methodology: In this qualitative study, we conducted 25 interviews with practitioners who designed job ads in the Netherlands, selected because they had recently placed an all-English, an all-Dutch, or a partly English job ad in a Dutch newspaper. They were asked an open-ended question about their reasons behind the language used in the job ad they placed. Interview data were labelled and categorized; subsequently, patterns were identified across categories. Results and conclusions: The interviews showed that all three types of genre factors-contextual, reader-writer, and textual-underlie practitioners' language choices. Practitioners mentioned the same types of factors that were mentioned in publications on job ads, but gave a greater variety of reasons for language choice. Of the reasons mentioned by the practitioners, the large majority were not given in publications. These findings underline the importance of obtaining text producers' perspectives and can be used to sensitize both novice and experienced professional Human Resources writers to the relevance of genre factors in language choice. A limitation of the present study is that the desired effects of language choice mentioned by the respondents were not verified with the target group of the job ads. Therefore, future research on langu...

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“…The scientific works declare that the proper percentage amount of the working fluid in loop thermosyphon is in the range of 40 -60% of the total loop thermosyphon volume [10,11,12]. In this work was performed experiment to finding proper amount of the working fluid for the LT with working fluid percentage amount in the range of 20 -70 %.…”

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Experimental study of high-performance cooling system pipeline diameter and working fluid amount

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Malcho

Hrabovský

et al. 2016

EPJ Web of Conferences

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$EVWUDFW This work deals with heat transfer resulting from the operation of power electronic components. Heat is removed from the mounting plate, which is the evaporator of the loop thermosyphon to the condenser and by natural convection is transferred to ambient. This work includes proposal of cooling device -loop thermosyphon, with its construct and follow optimization of cooling effect. Optimization proceeds by selecting the quantity of working fluid and selection of diameters vapour line and liquid line of loop thermosyphon.

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English in the Jordanian Context

Cited by 30 publications

References 16 publications

Learning English as a second language at the university level in Jordan: motivation, self-regulation and learning environment perceptions

Learning English as a second language at the university level in Jordan: motivation, self-regulation and learning environment perceptions

Reasons for Using English or the Local Language in the Genre of Job Advertisements: Insights From Interviews With Dutch Job Ad Designers

Experimental study of high-performance cooling system pipeline diameter and working fluid amount

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