Mutasim Al-Deaibes
Biographic Data
| ID | 1453512 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mutasim Al-Deaibes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mutasim |
| FAMILY NAME | Al-Deaibes |
| SIGNATURE | AL-DEAIBES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University of Sharjah |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4413-2876 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Performing gender in digital spaces: Verbal and multimodal compliment strategies among Jordanian Facebook users
Proficiency, phonological context, and distributional control in Arabic L1 learners' English stop voicing
Arabic and English differ in how they organize stop voicing along the voice onset time (VOT) continuum. Jordanian Arabic typically contrasts prevoiced /b/ with short-lag voiceless stops, whereas General American English uses short-lag /b/ and long-lag aspirated /p/ in stressed singleton onsets, with aspiration suppressed after /s/. Within the revised Speech Learning Model (SLM-r), such learning should appear not only as shifts in mean VOT but als…
Blended learning with AI role-play in English for tourism and hospitality
This mixed-methods quasi-experimental study examined whether AI-mediated role-play could support complaint-handling performance in an English for Tourism and Hospitality course. The study was conducted with 89 intermediate-level undergraduate EFL students at a public university in Jordan. Students were assigned by class section to a control group that completed instructor-led role-play and an experimental group that engaged in AI-mediated role-pl…
Comparing AI-assisted and teacher-led reading strategy instruction in an EFL context: A quasi-experimental study
Grounded in a metacognitive and distributed-scaffolding framework, this quasi-experimental study examined classroom-level patterns associated with two configurations of reading strategy instruction and with business-as-usual instruction in a university EFL context. Sixty undergraduate students enrolled in an advanced reading course at a public university in Jordan participated in the study. To preserve natural classroom composition, three intact …
ChatGPT as tutor and mentor in English phonetics: EFL students’ perceptions of concept learning and engagement
This qualitative study examined EFL students’ perceptions of ChatGPT during a short, structured implementation in an undergraduate English Phonetics course. The focus was conceptual understanding and engagement rather than pronunciation performance. Using exported conversation logs from six required sessions, weekly reflective journals, and post-intervention semi-structured interviews with 35 students, we conducted thematic analysis. Students des…
Using AI to adapt reading input for mixed-proficiency EFL learners
Mixed-proficiency EFL classrooms complicate the provision of level-appropriate reading input. This study examined whether AI-based text adaptation improves reading comprehension for learners at different proficiency levels. Grounded in Krashen's Input Hypothesis and Cognitive Load Theory, the study used a 2 × 2 mixed factorial design (text version: original vs. AI-adapted; proficiency: Intermediate-Low vs. Advanced-Low) to test performance on inf…
Voice onset time in Arabic L1 learners of English and Spanish: Evidence for stability, interaction, and phonetic drift in multilingual speech
This study examines voice onset time (VOT) in Arabic first-language speakers learning English and Spanish as a multilingual test of the speech learning model-revised (SLM-r). The model predicts continuous phonetic learning, interaction among categories in a shared phonetic space, and bidirectional influence across languages. VOT production was examined in Arabic monolinguals, an Arabic–English bilingual group, an Arabic–English–Spanish multilingu…
Cue weighting in the perception and production of English stop voicing by Arabic-speaking learners: Phonological context and immediate post-instruction adjustment
This study revisits English stop voicing in Arabic-speaking learners through a design that combines perception, production, phonological context, and a brief instructional manipulation within the same participants. Forty participants took part: 30 Arabic-speaking learners (10 Novice-High, 10 Intermediate-High, and 10 Advanced) and 10 native English controls. Learners completed perception and production pretests, a live standardized mini-lesson, a…
Effects of Gender and Age on Voice Onset Time in Rural Jordanian Arabic
This study reports the effects of gender and age on the production of Voice Onset Time (VOT) of stop consonants in Rural Jordanian Arabic (RJA). Participants of the study were divided into four age groups, namely children, preadolescents, adolescents, and adults, and were equally stratified according to their gender. They were asked to produce a series of Arabic words beginning with one of the six stop consonants: voiceless /tʕ/, /t/, /k/ and voi…
Real-world experiences of online learning: The effect of synchronous online learning on university students’ classroom engagement
While the effect of online learning on students’ academic achievement has been extensively studied, the impact of synchronous online instruction on students’ class engagement has not received enough attention in mainstream literature. This study addresses this gap and explores how the adoption of synchronous online learning has influenced Jordanian university students’ class engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study adopted a mixed-metho…
Navigating new territory: Discourses of assessment moderation in UAE higher education
Introduction This study investigates faculty perceptions of discourses associated with assessment moderation at a higher education institution in the UAE. Methodology This study employed a survey incorporating closed- and open-ended components. Adie and her associates' (2013) framework of assessment moderation discourses was used as an analytical framework for qualitative data with the purpose of identifying the discourses faculty associate with …
Testing Krashen’s input hypothesis with AI: A mixed-methods study on reading input and oral proficiency in EFL
This study investigated the impact of AI-generated graded reading materials on the oral proficiency of adult EFL learners in a six-month intervention. Ninety participants generated weekly texts using proficiency-aligned prompts and were assessed through pre- and post-intervention ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interviews, complemented by learner reflective journals. Quantitative results suggested significant proficiency gains across all initial levels, w…
AI vs. teacher feedback on EFL argumentative writing: A quantitative study
Introduction This study investigates the effectiveness of AI-generated feedback compared to teacher-generated feedback on the argumentative writing performance of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners at different proficiency levels. Methods Sixty undergraduate students from a writing-focused EFL course in Jordan participated in a quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest study. Participants were stratified into two ACTFL proficiency levels (In…
Voice onset time in the Emirati Arabic dialect
Voice Onset Time (VOT) is an essential acoustic parameter that phoneticians use to distinguish between voiced and voiceless stop consonants. This parameter is generally overlooked in Arabic dialects and The Emirati Arabic Dialects (EAD). This study explores the voicing contrast of stop consonants by measuring voice onset time as produced by EAD speakers. This research is based on word-list data comprising 36 words uttered by 16 native speakers (e…
Translanguaging in Jordanian EFL assessment: Cognitive scaffolding, identity expression, and institutional friction
ɸ‐Agree with silent goals and the theory of interface effects
This article provides evidence from Arabic (namely Modern Standard Arabic and Jordanian Arabic) that ɸ‐Agree with an element which undergoes a phonological deletion at PF, i.e., a pro, results in the occurrence of a ɸ‐inflection of the goal on the relevant probe. This occurrence is imposed by the effects of a suggested interface condition, named as The Agree Identification Condition , which requires a phonologically null goal to be ɸ‐identified t…
Unraveling Conversational Implicatures: A Study on Arabic EFL Learners
The present research aimed to evaluate the comprehension level of conversational implicature among a group of 30 senior Native Arabic-speaking students enrolled in the BA program of English Language and Literature at a UAE university. The participants’ comprehension of implicatures was assessed by providing them with 20 excerpts from the American sitcom Seinfeld ( https://www.seinfeldscripts.com/seinfeld-scripts.html ). The participants were aske…
Acoustics of long vowels in Arabic-speaking children with hearing impairments
The present study investigates formant frequencies and vowel space area in Jordanian hearing-impaired individuals who received cochlear implants. To achieve this task, they were compared with their hearing aids and normal-hearing peers. The study involved 60 participants aged between 7 and 11 years, consisting of 20 cochlear implant (CI) users, 20 hearing aid (HA) users, and 20 normal-hearing (NH) children. All participants were native speakers o…
Engagement strategies in English and Arabic newspaper editorials
This study explores the use and functions of engagement strategies in English and Arabic newspaper editorials. To this end, the study analyses 80 editorials collected from two popular newspapers (40 from each): The Guardian which publishes in English and appears in the UK and Addustour which publishes in Arabic and appears in Jordan. Following Paltridge’s (2020) taxonomy, the study utilises a mixed-method approach to assess whether differences in…
On the Derivation of Subject wh-Words and Theory of Cartography
Perception and production of L2 Arabic emphatic consonants: The role of communicative and traditional form-based approaches
This study examines the extent to which the communicative and traditional form-based approaches play a role in the perception and production of Arabic emphatic consonants by native English speakers. To this end, 19 English-speaking learners of Arabic from the University of Kansas participated in two experiments: perception and production. The experiments were followed by a 90-min period of instruction. The perception and production experiments in…
Mental Representation of Multiple Default Plurals: Evidence from the Adaptation of English Loanwords in Arabic
The present work argues for the existence of multiple default regularities of plural formation in Arabic. As evidenced in the corpus of loanword adaptation in Jordanian Arabic, this study calls for a reassessment of the treatment of idiosyncratic plural forms in the mental lexicon. This investigation is in line with the dual mechanism theory where both memory and rule are active, but with more reliance on the default rule (feminine sound plural –…
Hypocoristics in the Ammani-Jordanian context: A Construction Morphology perspective
The current study explores the patterns of hypocoristics in Ammani-Jordanian Arabic in view of Construction Morphology. The most common hypocoristic patterns are addressed with reference to the social factors (gender and age) that may contribute to the templates and functions of the hypocoristic structure. This paper argues that Ammani-Jordanian Arabic speakers produce various hypocoristic patterns to signify a variety of functions. A questionnai…
Production of Arabic Geminates by English Speakers
Prosodic words are the domain of emphasis spread: Evidence from Northern Rural Jordanian Arabic
This article, which reports on an experimental study based on data obtained from 86 native speakers of Northern Rural Jordanian Arabic (NRJA), offers empirical evidence that emphasis spread can apply bidirectionally across word edges when they are prosodically word internal. In other words, emphasis can spread from one word to a neighboring (plain) word when the two words form one prosodic word (ω). In order to support this hypothesis, we examine…
Gemination: Weight or Length? Evidence from Rural Jordanian Arabic
The aim of the paper is to evaluate how the implementation of geminates in Rural Jordanian Arabic (RJA) differs from that of clusters and by doing so, provided evidence for a prosodic weight. Geminates are represented and viewed controversially either as prosodic length (skeletal tier) or as prosodic weight (Moraic Theory) in the current theories of phonology. In this study, I argue that the geminate-singleton contrast word-medially and word-fina…
Prosodic words are the domain of emphasis spread: Evidence from Northern Rural Jordanian Arabic
This article, which reports on an experimental study based on data obtained from 86 native speakers of Northern Rural Jordanian Arabic (NRJA), offers empirical evidence that emphasis spread can apply bidirectionally across word edges when they are prosodically word internal. In other words, emphasis can spread from one word to a neighboring (plain) word when the two words form one prosodic word (ω). In order to support this hypothesis, we examine…
A prosodic account of wh-formation in Jordanian Arabic
Take It Ya 3azizi: Code-Switching on Facebook by Jordanian Bilinguals
This study scrutinizes the structural aspects of Jordanian Romanized Arabic-English code-switching (CS) on Facebook. All posts examined are written in Romanized Arabic, a new trend of writing on computer-mediated communication (CMC). Three types of CS are examined, i.e., inter-sentential, intra-sentential, and tags, though the greatest focus is on the intra-sentential instances because of their syntactic complexity. Different syntactic categories…
The syntax-phonology mapping of reduplicative forms in the Jordanian Arabic dialect of Irbid
In this paper, I explore the interface between syntax and phonology considering reduplication constraints in the Jordanian Arabic Dialect of Irbid (henceforth JADI) grammar. Drawing on a corpus of examples collected from naturally occurring speech by JADI speakers, I provide evidence that reduplication of free forms (i.e., words) is ruled by an interface condition (φ-WRAP) that demands every phonological phrase to be mapped onto an XP. Phonologic…
Gemination: Weight or Length? Evidence from Rural Jordanian Arabic
The aim of the paper is to evaluate how the implementation of geminates in Rural Jordanian Arabic (RJA) differs from that of clusters and by doing so, provided evidence for a prosodic weight. Geminates are represented and viewed controversially either as prosodic length (skeletal tier) or as prosodic weight (Moraic Theory) in the current theories of phonology. In this study, I argue that the geminate-singleton contrast word-medially and word-fina…
Emphatic assimilation across morpheme boundaries in Jordanian Arabic
This study aims to examine emphatic assimilation across morpheme boundaries in Jordanian Arabic (JA). Our research is based on word-list data comprising 86 words uttered by 12 native speakers of JA, recorded and acoustically analyzed in Praat for a total of 1032 tokens. The consonants of the bound morphemes tested include the genitive/accusative suffix-initial consonant /h/, the active participle prefix-final consonant /t/, and the definite artic…
Coda (de)voicing across morpheme boundaries in Rural Jordanian Arabic
Much work on phonetic assimilation in Arabic has focused on the assimilation of the definite article. However, assimilation across morpheme boundaries has been less of a target of study. Our research, based on word-list data comprising 57 words uttered by 12 native speakers of RJA, revealed that F1 and vowel duration were robust acoustic correlates in discriminating voiced from voiceless consonants. Results further showed that morpheme boundaries…
Acoustics of long vowels in Arabic-speaking children with hearing impairments
The present study investigates formant frequencies and vowel space area in Jordanian hearing-impaired individuals who received cochlear implants. To achieve this task, they were compared with their hearing aids and normal-hearing peers. The study involved 60 participants aged between 7 and 11 years, consisting of 20 cochlear implant (CI) users, 20 hearing aid (HA) users, and 20 normal-hearing (NH) children. All participants were native speakers o…
Engagement strategies in English and Arabic newspaper editorials
This study explores the use and functions of engagement strategies in English and Arabic newspaper editorials. To this end, the study analyses 80 editorials collected from two popular newspapers (40 from each): The Guardian which publishes in English and appears in the UK and Addustour which publishes in Arabic and appears in Jordan. Following Paltridge’s (2020) taxonomy, the study utilises a mixed-method approach to assess whether differences in…
On the Derivation of Subject wh-Words and Theory of Cartography
Perception and production of L2 Arabic emphatic consonants: The role of communicative and traditional form-based approaches
This study examines the extent to which the communicative and traditional form-based approaches play a role in the perception and production of Arabic emphatic consonants by native English speakers. To this end, 19 English-speaking learners of Arabic from the University of Kansas participated in two experiments: perception and production. The experiments were followed by a 90-min period of instruction. The perception and production experiments in…
Mental Representation of Multiple Default Plurals: Evidence from the Adaptation of English Loanwords in Arabic
The present work argues for the existence of multiple default regularities of plural formation in Arabic. As evidenced in the corpus of loanword adaptation in Jordanian Arabic, this study calls for a reassessment of the treatment of idiosyncratic plural forms in the mental lexicon. This investigation is in line with the dual mechanism theory where both memory and rule are active, but with more reliance on the default rule (feminine sound plural –…
Hypocoristics in the Ammani-Jordanian context: A Construction Morphology perspective
The current study explores the patterns of hypocoristics in Ammani-Jordanian Arabic in view of Construction Morphology. The most common hypocoristic patterns are addressed with reference to the social factors (gender and age) that may contribute to the templates and functions of the hypocoristic structure. This paper argues that Ammani-Jordanian Arabic speakers produce various hypocoristic patterns to signify a variety of functions. A questionnai…
Production of Arabic Geminates by English Speakers
Prosodic words are the domain of emphasis spread: Evidence from Northern Rural Jordanian Arabic
This article, which reports on an experimental study based on data obtained from 86 native speakers of Northern Rural Jordanian Arabic (NRJA), offers empirical evidence that emphasis spread can apply bidirectionally across word edges when they are prosodically word internal. In other words, emphasis can spread from one word to a neighboring (plain) word when the two words form one prosodic word (ω). In order to support this hypothesis, we examine…
ɸ‐Agree with silent goals and the theory of interface effects
This article provides evidence from Arabic (namely Modern Standard Arabic and Jordanian Arabic) that ɸ‐Agree with an element which undergoes a phonological deletion at PF, i.e., a pro, results in the occurrence of a ɸ‐inflection of the goal on the relevant probe. This occurrence is imposed by the effects of a suggested interface condition, named as The Agree Identification Condition , which requires a phonologically null goal to be ɸ‐identified t…
Unraveling Conversational Implicatures: A Study on Arabic EFL Learners
The present research aimed to evaluate the comprehension level of conversational implicature among a group of 30 senior Native Arabic-speaking students enrolled in the BA program of English Language and Literature at a UAE university. The participants’ comprehension of implicatures was assessed by providing them with 20 excerpts from the American sitcom Seinfeld ( https://www.seinfeldscripts.com/seinfeld-scripts.html ). The participants were aske…
Real-world experiences of online learning: The effect of synchronous online learning on university students’ classroom engagement
While the effect of online learning on students’ academic achievement has been extensively studied, the impact of synchronous online instruction on students’ class engagement has not received enough attention in mainstream literature. This study addresses this gap and explores how the adoption of synchronous online learning has influenced Jordanian university students’ class engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study adopted a mixed-metho…
Navigating new territory: Discourses of assessment moderation in UAE higher education
Introduction This study investigates faculty perceptions of discourses associated with assessment moderation at a higher education institution in the UAE. Methodology This study employed a survey incorporating closed- and open-ended components. Adie and her associates' (2013) framework of assessment moderation discourses was used as an analytical framework for qualitative data with the purpose of identifying the discourses faculty associate with …
Testing Krashen’s input hypothesis with AI: A mixed-methods study on reading input and oral proficiency in EFL
This study investigated the impact of AI-generated graded reading materials on the oral proficiency of adult EFL learners in a six-month intervention. Ninety participants generated weekly texts using proficiency-aligned prompts and were assessed through pre- and post-intervention ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interviews, complemented by learner reflective journals. Quantitative results suggested significant proficiency gains across all initial levels, w…
AI vs. teacher feedback on EFL argumentative writing: A quantitative study
Introduction This study investigates the effectiveness of AI-generated feedback compared to teacher-generated feedback on the argumentative writing performance of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners at different proficiency levels. Methods Sixty undergraduate students from a writing-focused EFL course in Jordan participated in a quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest study. Participants were stratified into two ACTFL proficiency levels (In…
Voice onset time in the Emirati Arabic dialect
Voice Onset Time (VOT) is an essential acoustic parameter that phoneticians use to distinguish between voiced and voiceless stop consonants. This parameter is generally overlooked in Arabic dialects and The Emirati Arabic Dialects (EAD). This study explores the voicing contrast of stop consonants by measuring voice onset time as produced by EAD speakers. This research is based on word-list data comprising 36 words uttered by 16 native speakers (e…
Translanguaging in Jordanian EFL assessment: Cognitive scaffolding, identity expression, and institutional friction
Performing gender in digital spaces: Verbal and multimodal compliment strategies among Jordanian Facebook users
Proficiency, phonological context, and distributional control in Arabic L1 learners' English stop voicing
Arabic and English differ in how they organize stop voicing along the voice onset time (VOT) continuum. Jordanian Arabic typically contrasts prevoiced /b/ with short-lag voiceless stops, whereas General American English uses short-lag /b/ and long-lag aspirated /p/ in stressed singleton onsets, with aspiration suppressed after /s/. Within the revised Speech Learning Model (SLM-r), such learning should appear not only as shifts in mean VOT but als…
Blended learning with AI role-play in English for tourism and hospitality
This mixed-methods quasi-experimental study examined whether AI-mediated role-play could support complaint-handling performance in an English for Tourism and Hospitality course. The study was conducted with 89 intermediate-level undergraduate EFL students at a public university in Jordan. Students were assigned by class section to a control group that completed instructor-led role-play and an experimental group that engaged in AI-mediated role-pl…
Linguistics (17 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (16 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Arabic (12 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (8 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (8 works) · Language Development and Disorders (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works)