Zahra Mustafa
Biographic Data
| ID | 3991628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zahra Mustafa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zahra |
| FAMILY NAME | Mustafa |
| SIGNATURE | MUSTAFA Z |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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…
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…
Arabic (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Physics (2 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (1 work)