Zahra Mustafa-Awad
Biographic Data
| ID | 3532202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zahra Mustafa-Awad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zahra |
| FAMILY NAME | Mustafa-Awad |
| SIGNATURE | MUSTAFA-AWAD Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jordan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5583-9167 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Converging and Diverging Images of Arab Women in Western Media during the Arab Spring
This study relates the general images of Arab women in news dscourse during the Arab Spring to specific ones in different Arab countries. We used a self-compiled complex corpus and its 20 subcorpora, each consisting of articles published about women from a specific Arab country by British and American news media during 2010–2014. These articles were categorized into four datasets according to the political stability in the countries they are asso…
Algerian Women in Western Online News During the ‘Hirak’
The Algerian ‘Hirak’ refers to a series of manifestations to protest against the ruling system in Algeria, which began in February 2019. It is considered a historical marker that featured a significant role of women in political change. This research project examined the image of Algerian women in Western media during this period using corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis. It is based on 36 articles reporting on Algerian women during the '…
Framing Gender in the Coverage of Protests
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Translators' Narratives Affecting Two Translations of the Same Text
The present study set out to examine the translations of Edward Said's Orientalism in light of narrative theory. The paper uses critical discourse analysis to examine the different narratives produced by two different Arabic translations of Orientalism, written originally in English. The first translation was produced by Kamal Abu Deeb in 1980, and a later one was carried out by Mohammad Enani in 2006. Our findings demonstrate two competing narra…
Syrian refugees in digital news discourse
This study examines the topical frames reflected in articles published about Syrian refugees by German, British and American news websites in 2016. We analyze these for terms associated with Syrian refugees and the themes they address then relate them to those we identified for 2015 and to those indicated by German students in expressing their attitudes towards them. The results show that, despite discrepancies in the occurrence of Syrian refugee…
Arab women’s Spring” revisited
This study is part of a project investigating the impact of Arab women’s representation in Western news discourse during the Arab Spring on changing their stereotypes in media and on public opinion in Germany. We focus on relating the themes associated with them and reflected in articles published by German, British, and American news media to German university students’ attitudes towards them. We adopted discourse analysis and corpus linguistic …
The Effect of Age and Gender on High School Students' Attitudes towards Using Computers in the Foreign Language Classroom
This study explores the views of Jordanian high school students on using computers in the English classroom. It focuses on the effect of age and gender on their attitudes towards this technology. The data were collected from 10 public high schools through questionnaires and structured interviews. The results show that the participants tend to have positive perception of the computer use for general purposes and for learning English but with vario…
Etymology of Arabic loanwords in English in Monolingual and Bilingual Dictionaries
This study deals with the etymological information provided on Arabic loanwords in English by different kinds of dictionaries; monolingual, bilingual and bilingualized. It also reports on EFL learners' attitudes towards the relative importance of such information for understanding the meaning of these words. The participants were 200 undergraduate students majoring in Applied English at the University of Jordan and the data were collected through…
Questionnaires as a Methodology for Investigating Awareness of the Translation Relationship between L1 and L2 Sentences
This study tries to propose using questionnaires in L1 and L2 as a method for investigating awareness of the translation relationship between L1 and L2 sentences by EFL learners at the intermediate level. The participants in this study were Jordanian university students majoring in computer science with Arabic as L1 and English as L2. They were given two versions of a questionnaire; one in Arabic and another in English, to elicit their attitudes …
Using Arabic and English in science lectures
A description and discussion of the routine mixing of Arabic and English in lectures at Jordan University of Science and Technology
Code-mixing of Arabic and English in teaching science
This paper investigates mixing Arabic and English in science lectures. The phenomenon is examined mainly with reference to frequency, grammatical categories involved, and adequacy of the syntactic constraints proposed in the literature for providing a structural description of this practice. The results show that the alternate use of the two languages in teaching is a prominent feature of the lectures and occurs in different grammatical categorie…
Code-mixing of Arabic and English in teaching science
This paper investigates mixing Arabic and English in science lectures. The phenomenon is examined mainly with reference to frequency, grammatical categories involved, and adequacy of the syntactic constraints proposed in the literature for providing a structural description of this practice. The results show that the alternate use of the two languages in teaching is a prominent feature of the lectures and occurs in different grammatical categorie…
Arab women’s Spring” revisited
This study is part of a project investigating the impact of Arab women’s representation in Western news discourse during the Arab Spring on changing their stereotypes in media and on public opinion in Germany. We focus on relating the themes associated with them and reflected in articles published by German, British, and American news media to German university students’ attitudes towards them. We adopted discourse analysis and corpus linguistic …
Code-mixing of Arabic and English in teaching science
This paper investigates mixing Arabic and English in science lectures. The phenomenon is examined mainly with reference to frequency, grammatical categories involved, and adequacy of the syntactic constraints proposed in the literature for providing a structural description of this practice. The results show that the alternate use of the two languages in teaching is a prominent feature of the lectures and occurs in different grammatical categorie…
Using Arabic and English in science lectures
A description and discussion of the routine mixing of Arabic and English in lectures at Jordan University of Science and Technology
Questionnaires as a Methodology for Investigating Awareness of the Translation Relationship between L1 and L2 Sentences
This study tries to propose using questionnaires in L1 and L2 as a method for investigating awareness of the translation relationship between L1 and L2 sentences by EFL learners at the intermediate level. The participants in this study were Jordanian university students majoring in computer science with Arabic as L1 and English as L2. They were given two versions of a questionnaire; one in Arabic and another in English, to elicit their attitudes …
Etymology of Arabic loanwords in English in Monolingual and Bilingual Dictionaries
This study deals with the etymological information provided on Arabic loanwords in English by different kinds of dictionaries; monolingual, bilingual and bilingualized. It also reports on EFL learners' attitudes towards the relative importance of such information for understanding the meaning of these words. The participants were 200 undergraduate students majoring in Applied English at the University of Jordan and the data were collected through…
The Effect of Age and Gender on High School Students' Attitudes towards Using Computers in the Foreign Language Classroom
This study explores the views of Jordanian high school students on using computers in the English classroom. It focuses on the effect of age and gender on their attitudes towards this technology. The data were collected from 10 public high schools through questionnaires and structured interviews. The results show that the participants tend to have positive perception of the computer use for general purposes and for learning English but with vario…
Arab women’s Spring” revisited
This study is part of a project investigating the impact of Arab women’s representation in Western news discourse during the Arab Spring on changing their stereotypes in media and on public opinion in Germany. We focus on relating the themes associated with them and reflected in articles published by German, British, and American news media to German university students’ attitudes towards them. We adopted discourse analysis and corpus linguistic …
Syrian refugees in digital news discourse
This study examines the topical frames reflected in articles published about Syrian refugees by German, British and American news websites in 2016. We analyze these for terms associated with Syrian refugees and the themes they address then relate them to those we identified for 2015 and to those indicated by German students in expressing their attitudes towards them. The results show that, despite discrepancies in the occurrence of Syrian refugee…
Framing Gender in the Coverage of Protests
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Translators' Narratives Affecting Two Translations of the Same Text
The present study set out to examine the translations of Edward Said's Orientalism in light of narrative theory. The paper uses critical discourse analysis to examine the different narratives produced by two different Arabic translations of Orientalism, written originally in English. The first translation was produced by Kamal Abu Deeb in 1980, and a later one was carried out by Mohammad Enani in 2006. Our findings demonstrate two competing narra…
Algerian Women in Western Online News During the ‘Hirak’
The Algerian ‘Hirak’ refers to a series of manifestations to protest against the ruling system in Algeria, which began in February 2019. It is considered a historical marker that featured a significant role of women in political change. This research project examined the image of Algerian women in Western media during this period using corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis. It is based on 36 articles reporting on Algerian women during the '…
Converging and Diverging Images of Arab Women in Western Media during the Arab Spring
This study relates the general images of Arab women in news dscourse during the Arab Spring to specific ones in different Arab countries. We used a self-compiled complex corpus and its 20 subcorpora, each consisting of articles published about women from a specific Arab country by British and American news media during 2010–2014. These articles were categorized into four datasets according to the political stability in the countries they are asso…
Linguistics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Arabic (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works)