The Impact of Culture and Gender on the Production of Online Speech Acts among Jordanian Facebook Users

Banikalef, Ala’Eddin Abdullah Ahmed

doi:10.33806/ijaes2000.19.2.9

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“…A Jordanian wedding is several day events, including preparations and parties. This is a religious practice that is started by asking the woman in front of a witness, if she agrees on the union (Ala'Eddin Banikalef, 2019;Esfandiari, 2017). After a mutual agreement, a wedding is arranged.…”

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Discourse Analysis of Jordanian Online Wedding Invitation Cards During COVID-19 Pandemic

Banikalef¹

2020

IJEL

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The current study analyzed the online wedding invitation genres in Jordan during COVID-19 pandemic. It aims to study the generic structures of these invitations and the role of the socio-cultural-religious norms and beliefs in shaping this type of genre. The corpus of 120 online wedding invitation cards was collected from Facebook from March to June 2020. Data were analyzed based on the framework presented by Swales (1990). Six obligatory and one optional move emerged from the analysis of the data. Through data analysis, it has been found that Jordanians’ linguistic behaviors were strongly associated with the religion of Islam and tribalism. Findings from this study have implications for language use and sociolinguistics as well as enhancing the understanding of online wedding invitation practices during a state of a public health emergency.

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Section: Jordanian Wedding Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Discourse Analysis of Jordanian Online Wedding Invitation Cards During COVID-19 Pandemic

Banikalef¹

2020

IJEL

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“…This study may illuminate how digital tools affect language learning and how technology-enhanced learning might improve language abilities. This study could inform effective teaching practices that use technology to improve language learning, highlight the importance of collaborative learning, feedback, and practice, and help us understand how technology affects language acquisition and proficiency (Banikalef, 2020 ;Banikalef, 2019& Shalghin, 2023.…”

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Breaking Barriers, Elevating Performance: Microsoft Teams and the Writing Proficiency of EFL Jordanian Students

Dakamsih,

Rababah

2024

WJEL

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Microsoft Teams is a popular educational online communication and collaboration software. Microsoft Teams centralizes interactions, information, and applications. It lets students and instructors interact and exchange material in real time. Thus, this research examines how Microsoft Teams affects EFL Jordanian writers. Microsoft Teams' collaborative learning, feedback, and practice may enhance EFL Jordanians' writing abilities. The research divides students into control and experimental groupsObjective: In Jordan, Language learning and writing abilities are evolving in tandem with advancements in educational technology. Microsoft Teams, a popular online communication, and collaboration software is at the forefront of this transformation. Thus, this research examines how Microsoft Teams affects Jordanian EFL writers.Methods: Separating 30 EFL Jordanian students into two groups: a control group and an experimental group, the study employed (Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory and Davis’s Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Then a Quasi-experimental study with a pre-test-post-test control group design has been conducted to compare the traditional teaching methods with Microsoft Teams-assisted collaborative writing.Results: The experimental group outperformed the control group in content and grammar. Microsoft Teams may help Jordanian EFL writers improve. The research reveals that Microsoft Teams might help EFL Jordanians write better. Thus, instructors should use Microsoft Teams to increase students' writing abilities. Technology-enhanced learning's long-term impacts on language competence require more study.Conclusions: In conclusion, this research examined how Microsoft Teams affects EFL Jordanians' writing. Microsoft Teams users had much better writing performance than non-users. The experimental group outperformed the control group in content and grammar. Microsoft Teams may help Jordanian EFL writers improve. Based on socio-cultural theory, the research stresses social interaction and collaborative learning in language acquisition. Socio-cultural theory supports student cooperation and communication using Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams' ability to allow students to interact with classmates and instructors and get feedback boosts writing skills.

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“…Accordingly, due to its essential role in fostering communication across geographic boundaries between netizens, scholars from all parts of the world grew interested in examining several linguistic phenomena that occur within it. While some examined the linguistic and textual features of CMC (Crystal, 2001;Segerstad, 2002;Al-Sa'di & Hamdan, 2005;Denis, 2008;Hamdan, 2012;Dressler & Dressler, 2016;Banikalef, 2019, Hamdan, 2021Hamdan & Al-Salman, 2021, among others), others investigated the commonalities and differences between this new mode of communication and previous modes such as writing and speaking (Crystal, 2001;Palfreyman & Al-Khalil, 2003;Denis, 2008). However, one phenomenon in CMC that has not received thorough scholarly attention and is still awaiting further research is emojis, particularly in terms of their communicative (pragmatic) functions.…”

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The Communicative Functions of Emojis: Evidence from Jordanian Arabic-Speaking Facebookers

Hamdan

2022

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Purpose. This paper examines the communicative (also known as pragmatic) functions of the most common five emojis in the Jordanian context as perceived by Jordanian Facebook users. Methods. The data were collected in four stages. First, the researcher shared a post on his Facebook account in which he asked his Jordanian-Arabic speaking virtual friends to report in a comment the most common emojis they use. The researcher compiled 174 comments / responses with 1716 emoji tokens. Second, the received tokens were used to identify the most common five emojis. Third, in order to identify the set of functions of each emoji, the researcher shared another post in which he asked the same previous group to report when each of them tends to press each emoji and for what purposes. Based on the received comments, a preliminary list of functions was prepared. Finally, the proposed functions were subjected to a validation process by two Jordanian-Arabic speaking linguists and three senior students from the Department of English at the University of Jordan. Most of their judgments were compatible with those of the researcher. To further validate the data, the acceptability of the identified functions were tested against the intuition of 261 Jordanian BA students at the University of Jordan. Results. The findings show that the five most common emojis in the Jordanian context are (1) the Face With Tears of Joy, (2) the Red Heart, (3) the Slightly Smiling Face, (4) the Face Blowing a Kiss, and (5) the Winking Face. Furthermore, emojis are not only used to show emotions, but can also act as markers of illocutionary force, as face saving devices, and as boosters of rapport. The set of emojis examined in this study can be employed to perform 19 multiple illocutionary acts including but not limited to expressive acts (happiness, admiration, etc.), directive acts (e.g, directing the addressee to stop doing something) and declarative acts (e.g., threatening). Emojis are not solely used to convey the functions envisaged by their creators. Instead, with time, emojis start to drift extensively from their semantic import by acquiring a wide spectrum of new illocutions. Conclusions. The study concludes that although emojis are evolving and developing at a rapid pace, becoming more diverse, pervasive and integral in our daily communications, sharing even some of the characteristics of human language such as arbitrariness, they remain a mode of communication within computer-mediated communication (CMC). At this stage, they can mainly play the role of non-verbal cues that help us understand the intended message and function as a parallel lingua franca limited in domains of CMC.

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The Impact of Culture and Gender on the Production of Online Speech Acts among Jordanian Facebook Users

Cited by 9 publications

References 24 publications

Discourse Analysis of Jordanian Online Wedding Invitation Cards During COVID-19 Pandemic

Discourse Analysis of Jordanian Online Wedding Invitation Cards During COVID-19 Pandemic

Breaking Barriers, Elevating Performance: Microsoft Teams and the Writing Proficiency of EFL Jordanian Students

The Communicative Functions of Emojis: Evidence from Jordanian Arabic-Speaking Facebookers

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