Reima Al-Jarf
Biographic Data
| ID | 3428928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reima Al-Jarf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reima |
| FAMILY NAME | Al-Jarf |
| SIGNATURE | AL-JARF R |
| AFFILIATIONS | King Saud University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6255-1305 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 47 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Arabic–English Transliteration of Personal Names and Public Signages
This study aimed to conduct a systematic review (SR) and meta-analysis (MA) of the author’s empirical studies published between 2021 and 2025 on Arabic–English transliteration of personal names on Facebook and public signages (shop names and linguistic landscapes). It aimed to synthesize evidence on orthographic anomalies, error patterns, and variation in English to Arabic and Arabic to English transliteration across social media, shop names, and…
Listening and Speaking Instruction, Assessment and Technologies in the Saudi EFL Context
This study sought to conduct a systematic review (SR) of the author’s studies on listening and speaking published between 2005-2023. The author’s 31 studies were categorized into 4 clusters: listening and speaking teaching approaches, combining listening and/or speaking with other skills, technologies used in listening and speaking enhancement (mobile apps, TED talks, podcasts, online tasks & Zoom, social media, online videos and digital multimed…
Metaphorical and fixed Expressions in Students’ Translation
This study sought to conduct a systematic review (SR) of the author’s research program on student translators’ difficulties in translating metaphorical and fixed expressions between English and Arabic. The corpus comprised 12 studies categorized into 3 thematic clusters: General and technical language metaphorical and fixed expressions, and human vs AI translation weaknesses. Across the 12 studies with expressions involving impossibility, kinship…
Innovative Word Formation and Pluralization Processes in Arabic
This study addresses a gap in the literature by conducting a self systematic review of innovative word formation and pluralization processes in Arabic, especially those shaped by hybridization, borrowing, and social media. It synthesizes thirteen studies published by the author between 2020 and 2025, covering innovative morphological processes, such as aspectual and temporal markers in Colloquial Arabic, innovative blends, clipping of borrowings,…
Distance Learning in the Covid-19 Era and Beyond
This study presents a systematic review (SR) of the author’s research on distance learning (DL) during the COVID 19 pandemic, published between 2020 and 2024. As an author bounded corpus, it offers an exceptionally comprehensive, multi dimensional examination of DL during the COVID 19 pandemic, spanning every major dimension of the teaching learning process, thus offering one of the most extensive individual research programs on this topic in Sau…
An Integrative Review of Studies on Teaching English for Art Education Purposes to Ph.D. Students
The literature revealed two major gaps: First, no systematic (SR) or integrative reviews (IRs) have examined the teaching of English for Art Education Purposes (EAEP), despite its growing relevance in Saudi higher education. No comprehensive review has synthesized research on reading, vocabulary, translation, electronic searching, research skills, or assessment within art education contexts. Second, no SRs have focused on the longitudinal develop…
A systematic Review of Studies on Adult Reading Practices, Interests, Habits and Challenges
This study presents a systematic review (SR) of eleven studies conducted by the author over a twenty year period (2004–2023), offering a comprehensive and longitudinal examination of adult L1 recreational reading in Arab contexts. Collectively, these studies provide an integrated view of adult reading practices, interests, habits, motivation, challenges, literacy campaigns and reading promotion programs. The corpus was organized into four themati…
English-Arabic Language Dynamics
This study conducted a systematic self-review of 30 studies published by the author between 2004 and 2025 on Arabic–English language dynamics. The studies were categorized into six thematic clusters: English visibility in public spaces; linguistic intersections; lexical hybridization and word formation; linguistic hegemony, preference, and language attitudes; the effect of social media on Arabic; institutional preference and policies; and parenta…
Splitting Unsplittable Foreign Words in Casual Speech by EFL Arab Learners
This study sheds light on a novel mispronunciation problem in L2 where Arabic-speaking EFL learners split unsplittable foreign long words in the flow of speech into two sub-parts and the factors involved in this faulty word segmentation. A sample of 15 unsplittable foreign long words segmented by 74 Arab college students was analyzed. Results showed that Arab learners split words to two parts as in Skype > Sky + pe, Kaspersky > Kasper + sky, Swar…
Mapping Pronunciation Errors in English Silent Consonants
This study sought to explore Saudi EFL undergraduate students’ mispronunciations of silent consonants /b, d, h, l, n, s, t, w/ in English words. 115 words in which the students sounded out silent consonants were collected from the spontaneous daily speech of students who were studying English as a foreign language at King Saud University. Data analysis showed that the students had varying degrees of difficulties with the different silent consonan…
Translation of English and Arabic “Sleep” Terms and Formulaic Expressions by Artificial Intelligence
This study examined how Microsoft Copilot (MC) and DeepSeek (DS) translate sleep terms vs formulaic expressions from English to Arabic and Arabic to English, compared MC and DS’s translations, identified the percentage of accurate equivalents, types of errors made, the translation strategies used, and AI translation error causes. Analysis of 130 English sleep terms, 91 English sleep formulaic expressions and 110 Arabic terms and formulaic express…
AI Translation of the Gaza-Israel War Terminology
This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of translation equivalents given by Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the Gaza-Israel War terminology and their semantic, syntactic, contextual, and orthographic inaccuracies’ and the translation strategies used by both,. A sample of 250 English and Arabic 2023-2024 Gaza-Israel War terminology that included names of cities, refugee camps, crossing, settlements, leaders, Palestinian Jihadist groups, war nick…
Copilot’s English Translation of Contrastive Emphatic Negation in Arabic Discourse
This study explores how AI, vis Microsoft Copilot (MC) translates Arabic contrastive emphatic negation (CEN) expressions, types of translation errors and translation strategies used. Analysis of a sample of 436 Arabic CEN expressions using a variety of negative particles showed that MC gave 65% correct translations of CEN expressions in the sample. MC gave more correct translations of expressions with a single negative particle than correlative c…
Translanguaging on Social Media by Educated Arabs
Translanguaging is the ability to move smoothly between the languages that a person knows. A sample of Facebook posts written by a sample of educated Arabs was collected. All the participants are native speakers of Arabic and have a good command of English or French as English/French was the medium of instruction in their major area of specialization such as medicine, computer, and engineering. The study aims to find out whether educated Arabs ar…
Gemination and Degemination before the Feminine Sound Plural Suffix in Native and Loanwords in Arabic
This study aimed to explore the gemination of consonants preceding the Feminine Plural suffix /-a:t/ in native and loanwords in Arabic, which consonants are geminated and when they are degeminated before /a:t/, to compare the conditions under which geminated and ungeminated consonants occur before /a:t/; and to define the relationship between the vowels preceding geminate and singleton consonants in syllables before /a:t/. A sample of 70 loanword…
Expressions of Impossibility in Arabic and English
Expressions of impossibility refer to events that can never or rarely happen, tasks that are difficult or impossible to perform, people or things that are of no use and things that are impossible to find. This study explores the similarities and differences between English and Arabic expressions of impossibility, and the difficulties that student-translators have with them. A corpus of English and Arabic expressions of impossibility was collected…
Definite or Indefinite? The Case of Arabic Product Names as Judged by Student Translators
Product names in Saudi Arabia are mostly written in both Arabic and English, whether they are imported or locally produced. Numerous errors in using the Arabic definite article are currently very common. This study aims to examine a sample of Arabic product names consisting of single and multi-word names to find out the percentage of indefinite and definite product names, the types of compound product names with the highest frequency in faulty de…
Exploring Rule-based and Idiosyncratic Loanword Plural Forms in Arabic
This study sought to explore how loanwords in Arabic are pluralized, whether loanword plurals are rule-based or idiosyncratic and the productivity of each type of loanword plural form: The Masculine Sound Plural (MSP), Broken Plural (BP), two or more Plurals, Zero Plural (ZP), Borrowed/Foreign Plural (BP) and Hybrid Plural (HP). It also aimed to shed light on the factors that contribute to the emergence of new, idiosyncratic plural forms. Analysi…
Feminine Sound Plurals with /h+a
This study aimed to compare the ending /h+a:t/ in Feminine Sound Plural of native and loanwords in Arabic, and explain the conditions under which /h+a:t/ appears in the plural of native and loanwords regardless of the source language. A sample of 45 loanwords from English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portugues, Farsi, and Turkish and 80 native Arabic nouns/adjectives with a Feminine Sound Plural ending in /h+a:t/ were collected. Results showed that…
Peculiarities of The Progressive, Perfect and Future Formation in Colloquial Arabic
Arabic has three tenses: past, present and future. The past tense refers to actions that took place in the past (كتب kataba He wrote). The present tense pertains to habitual actions, or those that are currently ongoing (يكتب /yaktubu/ He writes). The future signifies actions expected to occur in the future by adding the prefix س /sa/ or the particle سوف /sawfa/ to the present tense form of the verb (سيكتب sa-yaktubu He will write). Arabic also ha…
Numeral-based English and Arabic Formulaic Expressions
This study explores the similarities and differences between English and Arabic numeral-based formulaic expressions, and difficulties that student-translators have with them. A corpus of English and Arabic numeral-based formulaic expressions containing zero, two, three, twenty, sixty, hundred, thousand...etc., and another corpus of specialized expressions with numerical prefixes (mono-, bi-, milli-, kilo-, mega-) were collected, analyzed and comp…
Pluralization of Social Media Loan Terminology in Colloquial Arabic
Arabic has ancient as well as contemporary loanwords from numerous languages such as English, French, and Turkish that are used as loan words or in code-switches. With the advent of social media, the number of foreign words used in the spoken language is on the rise. This study aimed to find out how social media loan terminology is pluralized in Spoken Arabic and whether there are any pluralization peculiarities that were not detected by prior st…
English Spelling of Arabic Compound Personal Names by Educated Arabs on Facebook
This study examines a sample of Arabic compound personal name spelling errors in English on Facebook as produced by educated Arabs such as students, faculty, schoolteachers, and other professionals. It also examines the kinds of variant spellings and their sources, and the spelling strategies used. A sample of 452 compound names was selected from Facebook consisting of the prefixes عبد Abd, أبو Abu, and the suffix الدين -ddine. The subjects have …
Word Formation with Foreign Lexemes
Arabic compounds consist of a group of two or three words joined together into one vocabulary unit. Syntactically, Arabic compounds consist of a Noun + adjective; Noun + apposited noun; Noun + apposited noun + adjective; Noun + apposited N. + apposited N; Noun + the negative particle لا no/non; compound adverbs; and compound particles. Orthographically, the lexical items in most Arabic compounds are separated by a blank, few are agglutinated (spe…
Clipping of Borrowings in Spoken Arabic
Clipping is a word formation process in which a word is reduced/shortened to one of its parts as in exam, math, grad, lab, Sue while still retaining the same meaning and same part of speech. Clipping is classified into: (i) Initial clipping: phone (telephone), net (Internet); (ii) Medial clipping: fancy (fantasy), ma'am (madam); (iii) back clipping: exam, fax, doc, gym; (iv) Complex clipping: chem bot (chemistry-botany), ed psych (educational psy…
Processing of Cohesive Ties by EFL Arab College Students
Fifty‐nine EFL college students took a cohesion test in which they identified four types of cohesive ties in a reading text. Incorrect responses were analyzed. It was found that substitution was the most difficult to process, followed by reference and ellipsis, whereas conjunction was the easiest. In resolving the cohesion relationships, the students used the following faulty strategies: An anaphor was associated with the closest noun whether int…
SVO Word Order Errors in English-Arabic Translation
An error corpus of deviant SVO structure was collected from the translation projects of students majoring in translation. Syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discoursal criteria were used to judge the deviations. Percentages of interlingual and intralingual errors, the syntactic contexts in which subjects were misplaced, the strategies used to impose SVO order, and areas of L1 inadequate competence will be reported. Implications for increasing stu…
Processing of Cohesive Ties by EFL Arab College Students
Fifty‐nine EFL college students took a cohesion test in which they identified four types of cohesive ties in a reading text. Incorrect responses were analyzed. It was found that substitution was the most difficult to process, followed by reference and ellipsis, whereas conjunction was the easiest. In resolving the cohesion relationships, the students used the following faulty strategies: An anaphor was associated with the closest noun whether int…
Unemployed Female Translators in Saudi Arabia
The present study found that 90% of female Saudi translators who graduated between 1990 and 1996 are not working as translators. Although translation jobs are available in hospitals, translation bureaus, and embassies, many graduates find the jobs open for women unsuitable because of working conditions, stringent qualifications, staff policies, salaries and benefits. Others disliked the nature of the work and cited insufficient information about …
The Effects of Web‐Based Learning on Struggling EFL College Writers
This study aimed at finding out whether there were significant differences in achievement between English‐as‐a‐foreign‐language (EFL) freshman students exposed to traditional in‐class writing instruction depending on the textbook only, and those exposed to a combination of traditional in‐class instruction and Web‐based instruction in writing. All students were pretested before instruction and studied the same writing textbook for 12 weeks. In add…
SVO Word Order Errors in English-Arabic Translation
An error corpus of deviant SVO structure was collected from the translation projects of students majoring in translation. Syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discoursal criteria were used to judge the deviations. Percentages of interlingual and intralingual errors, the syntactic contexts in which subjects were misplaced, the strategies used to impose SVO order, and areas of L1 inadequate competence will be reported. Implications for increasing stu…
Feasibility of Digital Multimedia Language Labs for Interpreting Instruction as Perceived by Interpreting Instructors in Saudi Arabia
The College of Languages and Translation (COLT) prepares translators and interpreters. Some of the courses that the students take are language courses such as listening, speaking, reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and 4 types of interpreting courses (simultaneous, consecutive, liaison and sight). COLT has installed 4 multimedia language labs (MLLs) currently used for teaching listening courses, in addition to interpreting courses. Each MLL c…
Linguistic-cultural Characteristics of Hotels Names in Saudi Arabia
The current study aimed to analyze and compare hotel names (HNs) in Makkah, Madinah and Riyadh to find out if they differ in their linguistic and cultural features. Results of the data analysis showed that linguistically, most HNs in the three cities consist of two-word compounds. Culturally, HNs in Makkah and Madinah are loaded with meaning and reflect the country's rich past and present Islamic cultures and heritage. Most HNs in the two holy ci…
English Transliteration of Arabic Personal Names with the Definite Article {al-} on Facebook
This study aimed to explore how native speakers of Arabic transliterate first and last names containing the definite article {al-} to English on Facebook; what variations exist in transliterating the definite article itself, which is usually attached to the name in Arabic script; how Arabic speakers transliterate {al-} before sun and moon letters in their names; and which strategies they use in transliterating names with a definite article. A sam…
Proper Noun Pronunciation Inaccuracies in English by Educated Arabic Speakers
Analysis of a corpus of errors in pronouncing Proper Nouns used in English collected from the spontaneous speech of a sample of Arab informants showed that Arabic speakers have the following problems: (i) mispronouncing English vowels in Google, Moodle, Uber, Nixon, London; (ii) replacing consonants absent in L1 (p v) by their equivalents (bebsi, jafa); (iii) geminating consonants in city and country names (Peking; Venezuela, Minnesota); (iv); in…
Developing Students’ Global Awareness in EFL Reading and Speaking
Results of a questionnaire with a sample of EFL instructors at some Saudi universities showed that the instructors just follow the assigned textbook and do not integrate any global themes in their EFL courses. Therefore, this article aims to proposes a model for integrating global themes in the EFL college classroom, especially in reading and speaking instruction. The aim of the model is to help EFL students learn about the ideologies, cultures a…
Grade Inflation at Saudi Universities Before, During and After the Pandemic
This study investigates grade inflation in 127 language, linguistics, translation, education, and computer courses taught at some Saudi universities before, during and after the Pandemic. Grades obtained from some instructors for courses taught over 8 semesters were analyzed. It was found that between 20% 65% chose a pass/no-grade results, the rest of the students mostly earned A & B grades in Spring 2020 when instruction and assessment were held…
Positive Psychology in Emergency Distance Education in Saudi Arabia during the Pandemic and Beyond
Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, there was a sudden transition from face-to-face to distance learning (DL) at Saudi schools and universities. 55% of students surveyed were dissatisfied with DL, online communication and had difficulty understanding the course material. Students showed low self-efficacy, engagement and motivation, a negative role and absence of goals. They were mostly concerned about passing with exams. Starting Fall 2021, Saudi unive…
Difficulties in Learning English Plural Formation by EFL College Students
Freshman students at the College of Languages and Translation received direct instruction in plural formation. Instruction covered regular plural nouns, irregular plural nouns, plural formation of words ending in –f, and –o, nouns that have the same plural and singular form, and words with Latin and foreign plurals. The students did all the exercises in the textbook, then took an immediate test a week after instruction and a delayed test at the e…
Emerging Political Expressions in Arab Spring for Translation Media with Implications Pedagogy
A sample of political expressions that have been common in Arab media since the Arab Spring in 2011 was collected from TV newscasts, online news websites and social media pages. Analysis of their structure, denotative and connotative meanings revealed the following features: (i) Use of lexical hybrids (اخوانجي- الدم قراطية – سني ستان - الحقيقة ليكس- عسكريتاريا; (ii) revival of ancient Islamic expressionsأمير المؤمنين - غزوة الموصل) ); (iii) use o…
Challenges That Undergraduate Student Translators’ Face in Translating Polysemes from English to Arabic and Arabic to English
Polysemes are words that have multiple meanings. They exist in all languages as in Arabic جناح عين صوت جدول and English base, plant, system, present, left. A sample of Arabic and English polyseme translation errors was collected from homework-assignments and exams to explore the difficulties that student-translators have in translating English and Arabic polysemes. Data analysis showed that the students made more errors in translating Arabic poly…
Undergraduate Student-Translators’ Difficulties in Translating English Word + Preposition Collocations to Arabic
English and Arabic have different types of collocations, i.e., groups of words that go together. This study aims to explore the difficulties that Saudi undergraduate student-translators have in translating English word + preposition collocations such as verb + preposition, noun + preposition, and adjective + preposition collocations to Arabic. A corpus of faulty word+ preposition collocations was collected from students-translators’ graduation pr…
Gemination Errors in Arabic-English Transliteration of Personal Names on Facebook
This study aimed to explore how Arabic native speakers transliterate personal names containing geminates to English on social media and what transliteration anomalies they produce. A sample of 406 English transliterations of Arabic personal names with geminates by Arabic native speakers was compiled from Facebook and analyzed to find out the percentage of Arabic names in which geminates were transliterated into double consonants correctly; the pe…
Enhancing EFL Students' Reading and Appreciation Skills with Mobile Fiction Apps
The present study proposes the integration of mobile fiction Apps (MFAs) in reading instruction to help EFL college students understand the form and content of literary works. It will give examples of fiction Apps that can be downloaded from the Google Play and iPhone App Stores, give the advantages of using MFAs, literary appreciation skills that can be developed with MFAs and instructional stages with MFAs. MFAs can be used as extension activit…
Numeral-based English and Arabic Formulaic Expressions
This study explores the similarities and differences between English and Arabic numeral-based formulaic expressions, and difficulties that student-translators have with them. A corpus of English and Arabic numeral-based formulaic expressions containing zero, two, three, twenty, sixty, hundred, thousand...etc., and another corpus of specialized expressions with numerical prefixes (mono-, bi-, milli-, kilo-, mega-) were collected, analyzed and comp…
Pluralization of Social Media Loan Terminology in Colloquial Arabic
Arabic has ancient as well as contemporary loanwords from numerous languages such as English, French, and Turkish that are used as loan words or in code-switches. With the advent of social media, the number of foreign words used in the spoken language is on the rise. This study aimed to find out how social media loan terminology is pluralized in Spoken Arabic and whether there are any pluralization peculiarities that were not detected by prior st…
English Spelling of Arabic Compound Personal Names by Educated Arabs on Facebook
This study examines a sample of Arabic compound personal name spelling errors in English on Facebook as produced by educated Arabs such as students, faculty, schoolteachers, and other professionals. It also examines the kinds of variant spellings and their sources, and the spelling strategies used. A sample of 452 compound names was selected from Facebook consisting of the prefixes عبد Abd, أبو Abu, and the suffix الدين -ddine. The subjects have …
Word Formation with Foreign Lexemes
Arabic compounds consist of a group of two or three words joined together into one vocabulary unit. Syntactically, Arabic compounds consist of a Noun + adjective; Noun + apposited noun; Noun + apposited noun + adjective; Noun + apposited N. + apposited N; Noun + the negative particle لا no/non; compound adverbs; and compound particles. Orthographically, the lexical items in most Arabic compounds are separated by a blank, few are agglutinated (spe…
Clipping of Borrowings in Spoken Arabic
Clipping is a word formation process in which a word is reduced/shortened to one of its parts as in exam, math, grad, lab, Sue while still retaining the same meaning and same part of speech. Clipping is classified into: (i) Initial clipping: phone (telephone), net (Internet); (ii) Medial clipping: fancy (fantasy), ma'am (madam); (iii) back clipping: exam, fax, doc, gym; (iv) Complex clipping: chem bot (chemistry-botany), ed psych (educational psy…
Non-Conventional Spelling in Informal, Colloquial Arabic Writing on Facebook
Arabic has a standard form used in formal situations and print materials and a non-standard, colloquial form used in daily conversation. Each Arab country has its own dialect. Before social media, educated Arabs used to use Standard Arabic when they communicated in writing. But with the advent of social media, people started to use non-standard Arabic, i.e., their own dialects, when they communicate in writing on social media. A corpus of spellin…
Lexical Hybridization in Arabic
Arabic is a derivational language where words are formed from a root consisting of three or four consonants and a set of vowels that alternate with the root consonants. Different derivational patterns are used to derive agents, patients, nouns of place, time, occupation, appliances, tools, diseases, the diminutive and so on. In addition, Arabic has loan words from ancient, as well as modern languages. Not only has Arabic borrowed lexical items bu…
Lexical Shortening and Blending
A corpus of 170 partial Arabic blends in which the first and/or second constituents are shortened was collected from several Arabic resources and subjected to further analysis to explore the structure of Arabic partial blends; blend types (attributive/headed); which constituents and which part is shortened; the kind of relation that exists between the constituents of Arabic blends; and the contexts or registers which favour the formation of lexic…
Linguistics (31 works) · Arabic (21 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Computer Science (18 works) · Philosophy (18 works) · History (11 works) · Noun (11 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (11 works) · Artificial Intelligence (9 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (8 works)