Radzuwan Ab Rashid
Biographic Data
| ID | 287709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Radzuwan Ab Rashid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Radzuwan Ab |
| FAMILY NAME | Rashid |
| SIGNATURE | AB RASHID R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sultan Zainal Abidin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1334-6268 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Interpreting Views and Perceptions: Towards a Comprehensive Framework for Rigorous Qualitative Analysis
This paper proposes a comprehensive analytic framework for interpreting participants’ perceptions in interview data. It addresses a persistent weakness in qualitative research, particularly among novice scholars, where participants’ views are often reduced to simplistic “positive versus negative” dichotomies, leading to descriptive rather than interpretive analysis. Drawing on extensive experience examining doctoral theses and published qualitati…
Digital discourse studies: Analysing communication in platformed and algorithmic publics
1. Digital platforms have become central arenas of communication, yet qualitative research in the discourse studies tradition continues to rely largely on frameworks developed in pre-digital contex
The dynamics of vulnerable blackness and privileged whiteness in protest slogans following the murder of George Floyd
This research endeavours to examine the discursive construction of blackness and whiteness by protestors spanning from Minneapolis to the entirety of America following the murder of Floyd. The data, which were analysed using the framework of van Dijk’s critical discourse analysis approach, consisted of 140 slogans collected from photos found on CNN, BBC, AP News, CBS News and Shutterstock websites. The analysis uncovered several recurring discurs…
Discursive identities of non-hijabi Muslim Jordanian women
This study explores how non-hijabi Muslim women in Jordan construct and negotiate their identities within a culturally conservative context where veiling is often equated with religiosity and moral virtue. Drawing on a Discursive Psychology framework, this qualitative research analyses a group interview with four participants, highlighting their rhetorical and discursive strategies: Stake Inoculation, Script Formulation, and Extreme Case Formulat…
Figurative Language as Identity Work: A Discourse Analysis of Syrian Refugee Narratives
This study investigates how Syrian refugee students in Jordan employ figurative language including metaphors, similes, and imagery with metaphorical function to construct and negotiate their identities amidst displacement. While much existing research examines how refugees are portrayed by external actors, such as media or policymakers, little is known about how refugees themselves use such figurative resources to shape their own self-representat…
Forced Displacement and Rhetoric: A Pragmatic Analysis of Presuppositions and Speech Acts in Trump’s Discourse on the Gaza Strip
This study explores the rhetorical strategies used by US President Donald Trump's proposal for the forced displacement of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. It employs a pragmatic analysis framework to scrutinize Trump's statements, focusing on pragmatic presuppositions and speech acts. By examining purposively sampled extracts from Trump's White House meetings, this study provides an in-depth analysis of Trump’s rhetorical strategies in his proposa…
Public responses to Malaysia’s exam abolition policy: A metadiscursive analysis
Public responses to educational policy reforms offer a lens into how language mediates public sentiment, shapes ideological debates, and reflects societal values. This study analyses the metadiscursive strategies employed in 895 first-level Facebook comments reacting to Malaysia’s recent abolition of standardized exams. Using Hyland’s interactional metadiscourse framework, the research highlights how linguistic features such as hedges, boosters, …
Online discursive contestations over educational reform in Malaysia’s multiethnic society
Stars in the classroom: Metaphor as a resource for refugee learners’ educational identities and futures
A Discourse Analysis of Syrian Refugee Learners' Reflective Accounts of Returning to Syria From Jordan
This paper is part of a larger study investigating the educational experiences of Syrian refugees in Jordan. It explores the reflective accounts of 129 Syrian refugee university learners in Jordan, collected during the third week following the fall of Bashar al‐Assad, a period marked by significant political transition and the voluntary return of nearly 60 000 Syrians. Using a discursive analytical approach, the research investigates how language…
Trolling in public discourse: Online reactions to Malaysia’s abolishment of examinations
This paper investigates trolling as a socio-discursive phenomenon within Malaysia’s public discourse on the abolishment of two national school examinations, namely the Primary School Achievement Test (UPSR, abolished in 2021) and the Form Three Assessment (PT3, abolished in 2022). The study analyses 895 first-level Facebook comments to identify how trolling was used and to explore its rhetorical strategies and cultural significance. Through criti…
Framing empirical discourse on mental health among refugees in Malaysia
Purpose This paper aims to examine the key gaps, limitations and characteristics of the existing empirical discourse on refugees’ mental health in the Malaysian context and provides insights into their prevalent mental health conditions. Design/methodology/approach Adhering to the PRISMA framework for selecting studies, this desk research used a comprehensive search strategy in the Web of Science and Scopus databases. Detailed screening and analy…
Transgender Identities and Online Hate In Post-Assad Syria: A Critical Discourse Analysis
This study examines how transgender identities are discursively formed in post-Assad Syria by conducting a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of 550 purposively selected Facebook comments that respond to a viral video showing the assault of a transgender individual by the Syrian army. The findings show that transgender individuals are predominantly depicted as moral deviants, political threats, and religious transgressors, with their exclusion rat…
Power Imbalances in Marriage: A Study of Online Support Group Discourse
This study examines how wives in an online support group discursively construct power imbalances within their marriages. By conducting a discursive analysis of 192 posts, we identify how they use specific discursive devices to articulate their experiences of power within four primary domains: Resource Power, Social Power, Coercive Power, and Influence Power. The findings highlight how the posts construct perceptions of financial, social, legal, a…
The Identity of a Storyteller in Teachers’ Facebook Status Updates
This paper explores how teachers discursively construct the identity of a storyteller when posting Status updates on Facebook Timelines. Data were generated using participant observation where 29 Timelines belonging to Malaysian secondary school English language teachers were observed throughout a six-month period. A total of 178 teaching-related Status updates were recorded and then analyzed using a discursive analytical approach combining ‘broa…
Malaysian English Language Teachers’ Engagement With Instrumental Support on Facebook
This study investigates how Malaysian English language teachers utilize networking sites for social support. It focuses on the social and discursive practices of Malaysian English language teachers as they co-construct social support on Facebook Timelines. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with 20 Malaysian English language teachers to identify the value of social networking sites for teachers’ development. The findings re…
Artificial Intelligence for English Language Learning and Teaching: Advancing Sustainable Development Goals
This study explores the affordance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to English language learning and teaching, focusing on its alignment with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It aims to investigate the role of AI in enhancing language education and fostering student-centered learning. Data for this study were collected through semi-structured interviews with 18 English teachers to gather qualitative insights into their exp…
The Discursive Identities of Hamas and Israel in British Newspapers: A Socio-cognitive Analysis
This article investigates the discursive construction of identities in media discourse, focusing on how British newspapers portrayed Israel and Hamas following October 7th. This study, grounded in van Dijk's socio-cognitive frameworks, used a thematic approach to analyse a dataset of 150 news story headlines from 11 British newspapers. The data collection period extended from October 7th to October 15th, 2023. Data analysis reveals that headlines…
Learner Experiences of Community of Inquiry Mode (CoI) in WhatsApp for English Language Learning
This study employed a mixed-methods design to investigate the experiences of ESL students during their English language learning interactions through the WhatsApp platform. The primary objective was to examine the presence of social, cognitive, and teaching presences in the WhatsApp interactions using the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model. A survey was administered to 349 undergraduate students in Malaysia to collect the quantitative data, which w…
We are clueless: The voices of jordanian teachers untrained in conflict-sensitive pedagogy
A discourse analysis of teachers' messages in official and unofficial WhatsApp groups
This study explores Jordanian English language teachers' social and discursive practices online. It aims to scrutinize the way Jordanian English language teachers at one of universities in Jordan construct their posts in official and unofficial WhatsApp groups. Employing an ethnographic approach, this paper examines the differences in teachers' discursive behavior in official and unofficial WhatsApp groups. Data generation took place from March 2…
Demotivation Factors for Learning English (Students' Perspectives)
Demotivation is a topic that has lately received a lot of attention in the field of language acquisition. There is a shortage of research in Jordan that investigates demotivating variables impacting learning English among Jordanian undergraduate students. As a result, the purpose of this research is to look at the elements that influence Jordanian undergraduate students' acquisition of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). The data was collected u…
Former Muslims’ Socio-Religious Discourse on Social Media: A Speech Acts Analysis
This study aims to provide insights into the speech acts in socio-religious discourse constructed by former Malaysian Muslims on social media. This study employs a blended analytical lens consisting of Searle’s (1999) taxonomy of speech acts and van Dijk’s (1992) perspective of micro and macro speech acts. The analysis reveals that all five conventional speech act categories are represented in the discourse. But these categories do not provide in…
Discursive construction of anti-hijab discourse on Facebook and Twitter: The case of Malaysian former-Muslim women
This study sheds light on how Malaysian former Muslims construct their anti-hijab discourse in the context of Facebook and Twitter interactions and how a dichotomous meaning is assigned to the hijab. The five participants were identified using the snowball technique, starting from a well-known Malaysian former Muslim. Data was generated by observing the participants’ postings over nine months, from April to December 2019. Three hundred ten postin…
The representation of Islam within social media: A systematic review
Discursive construction of anti-hijab discourse on Facebook and Twitter: The case of Malaysian former-Muslim women
This study sheds light on how Malaysian former Muslims construct their anti-hijab discourse in the context of Facebook and Twitter interactions and how a dichotomous meaning is assigned to the hijab. The five participants were identified using the snowball technique, starting from a well-known Malaysian former Muslim. Data was generated by observing the participants’ postings over nine months, from April to December 2019. Three hundred ten postin…
Discursive strategies employed by homosexual Malaysian Muslim men in talking about homosexuality in Islam
This research looks into how homosexual Muslim men in Malaysia convey their experiences regarding their sexual and romantic lifestyle in relation to their Islamic faith. For this research, four respondents who identify themselves as homosexual and Muslim were subjected to in-depth, semi-structured interview to gauge their experiences, thoughts and beliefs in regard to their sexual and religious experiences. Discursive Psychology (DP), more specif…
A Discourse Analysis of Syrian Refugee Learners' Reflective Accounts of Returning to Syria From Jordan
This paper is part of a larger study investigating the educational experiences of Syrian refugees in Jordan. It explores the reflective accounts of 129 Syrian refugee university learners in Jordan, collected during the third week following the fall of Bashar al‐Assad, a period marked by significant political transition and the voluntary return of nearly 60 000 Syrians. Using a discursive analytical approach, the research investigates how language…
Online discursive contestations over educational reform in Malaysia’s multiethnic society
Framing empirical discourse on mental health among refugees in Malaysia
Purpose This paper aims to examine the key gaps, limitations and characteristics of the existing empirical discourse on refugees’ mental health in the Malaysian context and provides insights into their prevalent mental health conditions. Design/methodology/approach Adhering to the PRISMA framework for selecting studies, this desk research used a comprehensive search strategy in the Web of Science and Scopus databases. Detailed screening and analy…
Teachers’ Engagement in Social Support Process on a Networking Site
This paper is part of a larger study investigating teachers’ engagement in social support process on a networking site. It concentrates on the social and discursive practices of 20 Malaysian English language teachers as they co-construct social support on Facebook Timelines. The main data generated from participant observations were analysed using discourse analysis approach. The findings revealed that the teachers mainly post about negative expe…
Topic continuation strategies employed by teachers in managing supportive conversations on Facebook Timeline
This article is part of a larger study on teachers’ co-construction of social support on a social networking site. The aim of this article is to elucidate how a topic introduced in the Facebook Status updates are negotiated with/by Friends through the Comment function. Adopting discourse topic management as its theoretical framework, the article presents the findings related to topical action of continuing topic observed in the Comments on Timeli…
Being a Muslim Gay Man: A Systematic Review; Pp. 273–284
This article presents a systematic discussion on how Muslim gay men protect their image and identity in an Islamic ambience, which can be threatened as a result of self-identifying and coming out as gay. The overarching question of this systematic review is, â What has research told us about Muslim gay men?â For the literature synthesis, out of 57 articles that touch on the issues associated with Muslim gay men, 30 of them met the inclusion crite…
Nigerian Postgraduate Students’ Attitude and Perceived Competence in Using Ict Resources for Research Purpose
The study aims to investigate the attitudes of Nigerian postgraduate students towards information and communication technology (ICT) and their perceived competence in using ICT resources for research purpose. The influence of field of studies on their competence and attitude were also examined. A total of 77 Nigerian postgraduate students at a university in Malaysia were randomly selected for the study. Data collected through questionnaires were …
Supportive Conversations on Facebook Timelines: Discourse Topic Management
The emergence of social networking sites, like Facebook, and people’s engagement with one another through them is a relatively under-researched area for discourse analysis. The content of the book revolves around Discourse Topic Management which is under the theme of Discourse Analysis. It is written to extend the very limited literature in the area of Discourse Topic, especially for the discourse which takes place on social networking sites. Thi…
New Media Narratives and Cultural Influence in Malaysia: The Strategic Construction of Blog Rhetoric by an Apostate
Practices and Outcomes of Communicative Language Teaching in Higher Secondary Schools in Rural Bangladesh
This paper aims to provide insights into the challenges of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) practice at higher secondary level in Bangladeshi rural settings. Employing qualitative approach, in-depth interviews were conducted with 24 rural English language teachers to explore the problems they face in CLT implementation. The interview data were scrutinized using thematic analysis. Three major themes emerge from the analysis which are: (i) ped…
Discursive strategies employed by homosexual Malaysian Muslim men in talking about homosexuality in Islam
This research looks into how homosexual Muslim men in Malaysia convey their experiences regarding their sexual and romantic lifestyle in relation to their Islamic faith. For this research, four respondents who identify themselves as homosexual and Muslim were subjected to in-depth, semi-structured interview to gauge their experiences, thoughts and beliefs in regard to their sexual and religious experiences. Discursive Psychology (DP), more specif…
Conceptualizing the characteristics of moderate Muslims: A systematic review
Following the 9/11 terror attacks, public discourse on Islam worldwide has been characterized by the distinction between radical and moderate Muslims. In this context, moderate Muslims can play a significant role in international relations and promote moderate practice in global politics. In order to address the conceptual ambiguities and enhance our understanding of acceptable Islam, this study undertook a critical review of the term Moderate Mu…
The representation of Islam within social media: A systematic review
Gender Stereotype in Toy Advertisements on Social Networking Sites
Marketing and advertising messages are often designed to persuade and influence the consumers into purchasing the products or services usually designed based on market segmentation and target consumers. This segmentation may vary but the most common type of market segmentation is based on demographic information such as gender. In toy advertisements, children are the target markets. Research shows that most toy advertisements involve gender stere…
Former Muslims’ Socio-Religious Discourse on Social Media: A Speech Acts Analysis
This study aims to provide insights into the speech acts in socio-religious discourse constructed by former Malaysian Muslims on social media. This study employs a blended analytical lens consisting of Searle’s (1999) taxonomy of speech acts and van Dijk’s (1992) perspective of micro and macro speech acts. The analysis reveals that all five conventional speech act categories are represented in the discourse. But these categories do not provide in…
Discursive construction of anti-hijab discourse on Facebook and Twitter: The case of Malaysian former-Muslim women
This study sheds light on how Malaysian former Muslims construct their anti-hijab discourse in the context of Facebook and Twitter interactions and how a dichotomous meaning is assigned to the hijab. The five participants were identified using the snowball technique, starting from a well-known Malaysian former Muslim. Data was generated by observing the participants’ postings over nine months, from April to December 2019. Three hundred ten postin…
A discourse analysis of teachers' messages in official and unofficial WhatsApp groups
This study explores Jordanian English language teachers' social and discursive practices online. It aims to scrutinize the way Jordanian English language teachers at one of universities in Jordan construct their posts in official and unofficial WhatsApp groups. Employing an ethnographic approach, this paper examines the differences in teachers' discursive behavior in official and unofficial WhatsApp groups. Data generation took place from March 2…
Demotivation Factors for Learning English (Students' Perspectives)
Demotivation is a topic that has lately received a lot of attention in the field of language acquisition. There is a shortage of research in Jordan that investigates demotivating variables impacting learning English among Jordanian undergraduate students. As a result, the purpose of this research is to look at the elements that influence Jordanian undergraduate students' acquisition of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). The data was collected u…
The Identity of a Storyteller in Teachers’ Facebook Status Updates
This paper explores how teachers discursively construct the identity of a storyteller when posting Status updates on Facebook Timelines. Data were generated using participant observation where 29 Timelines belonging to Malaysian secondary school English language teachers were observed throughout a six-month period. A total of 178 teaching-related Status updates were recorded and then analyzed using a discursive analytical approach combining ‘broa…
Malaysian English Language Teachers’ Engagement With Instrumental Support on Facebook
This study investigates how Malaysian English language teachers utilize networking sites for social support. It focuses on the social and discursive practices of Malaysian English language teachers as they co-construct social support on Facebook Timelines. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with 20 Malaysian English language teachers to identify the value of social networking sites for teachers’ development. The findings re…
Artificial Intelligence for English Language Learning and Teaching: Advancing Sustainable Development Goals
This study explores the affordance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to English language learning and teaching, focusing on its alignment with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It aims to investigate the role of AI in enhancing language education and fostering student-centered learning. Data for this study were collected through semi-structured interviews with 18 English teachers to gather qualitative insights into their exp…
The Discursive Identities of Hamas and Israel in British Newspapers: A Socio-cognitive Analysis
This article investigates the discursive construction of identities in media discourse, focusing on how British newspapers portrayed Israel and Hamas following October 7th. This study, grounded in van Dijk's socio-cognitive frameworks, used a thematic approach to analyse a dataset of 150 news story headlines from 11 British newspapers. The data collection period extended from October 7th to October 15th, 2023. Data analysis reveals that headlines…
Learner Experiences of Community of Inquiry Mode (CoI) in WhatsApp for English Language Learning
This study employed a mixed-methods design to investigate the experiences of ESL students during their English language learning interactions through the WhatsApp platform. The primary objective was to examine the presence of social, cognitive, and teaching presences in the WhatsApp interactions using the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model. A survey was administered to 349 undergraduate students in Malaysia to collect the quantitative data, which w…
We are clueless: The voices of jordanian teachers untrained in conflict-sensitive pedagogy
Figurative Language as Identity Work: A Discourse Analysis of Syrian Refugee Narratives
This study investigates how Syrian refugee students in Jordan employ figurative language including metaphors, similes, and imagery with metaphorical function to construct and negotiate their identities amidst displacement. While much existing research examines how refugees are portrayed by external actors, such as media or policymakers, little is known about how refugees themselves use such figurative resources to shape their own self-representat…
Forced Displacement and Rhetoric: A Pragmatic Analysis of Presuppositions and Speech Acts in Trump’s Discourse on the Gaza Strip
This study explores the rhetorical strategies used by US President Donald Trump's proposal for the forced displacement of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. It employs a pragmatic analysis framework to scrutinize Trump's statements, focusing on pragmatic presuppositions and speech acts. By examining purposively sampled extracts from Trump's White House meetings, this study provides an in-depth analysis of Trump’s rhetorical strategies in his proposa…
Public responses to Malaysia’s exam abolition policy: A metadiscursive analysis
Public responses to educational policy reforms offer a lens into how language mediates public sentiment, shapes ideological debates, and reflects societal values. This study analyses the metadiscursive strategies employed in 895 first-level Facebook comments reacting to Malaysia’s recent abolition of standardized exams. Using Hyland’s interactional metadiscourse framework, the research highlights how linguistic features such as hedges, boosters, …
Online discursive contestations over educational reform in Malaysia’s multiethnic society
Psychology (19 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Political science (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Discourse analysis (10 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social science (7 works) · Critical discourse analysis (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Social media (6 works)