Murad Al Kayed
Biographic Data
| ID | 8835744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Murad Al Kayed |
| GIVEN NAMES | Murad |
| FAMILY NAME | Al Kayed |
| SIGNATURE | AL KAYED M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Al-Balqa Applied University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6052-8534 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Mhani Alaoui as a mythmaker
The study aims at examining the meanings of myths in Mhani Alaoui’s Dreams of Maryam Tair: Blue Boots and Orange Blossoms. Through the theoretical frameworks of psychoanalysis and feminism, the study explores how myths operate as narratives and symbolic structures that represent female power, independence and rebellion. This research seeks to offer a new perspective to the novel by analyzing myths through combining psychoanalytic archetypal theor…
A linguistic analysis of persuasive language used on Jordanian advertisements in social media
The current study aims to explore the linguistic persuasive linguistic devices used in Jordanian online advertising discourse. It aims to recognize the most frequent linguistic strategies that affect the buying behavior of Jordanian costumers. The study employed a quantitative and qualitative approach to analyze 271 Jordanian advertisements collected from Facebook and Instagram between January and April 2025. The linguistic features of persuasive…
Multifunctionality of mʕliʃ in Jordanian Arabic
The present study explored the pragmatic functions of Mʕliʃ in Jordanian Arabic. The data consisted of 175 tokens of Mʕliʃ compiled from naturally occurring interactions among speakers in the sample. The objective of the present research was to investigate the pragmatic functions of Mʕliʃ through a qualitative discourse-analytic approach, supported by descriptive quantitative analysis. Findings revealed that the Jordanian speakers in the sample u…
The Kindness of Nature in Aboulela’s The Kindness of Enemies
This paper aims at studying Leila Aboulela's The Kindness of Enemies through an ecocritical lens. The study investigates how environmental and postcolonial themes intersect in the novel, emphasizing the destructive colonial effect on the environment and on personal and cultural identities. The study also highlights how nature shapes the personal and collective identities of indigenous people. It shows how colonial exploitation of the land and the…
The Impact of WhatsApp Groups on Improving Jordanian University Students’ Vocabulary Learning
The current study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of using WhatsApp groups to improve university students’ vocabulary learning. The study adopted a quasi-experimental research design. It consisted of 60 male and female EFL students from Ajloun College University at Al-Balqa Applied University. The participants were assigned evenly into a control group, which was taught via conventional teaching methods, and an experimental group, which w…
The Semantic and Contextual Meanings of the Cognitive Words “yʕqilu
The current study endeavors to identify the semantic and contextual meanings of four cognitive words: “yʕqilu:n, yatafakaru:n, yatadabaru:n, yafqahu:n” in Holy Qur'an. The motive for this study comes from the vague semantic relations expressed by Muslim exegetes and interpreters of these words. Additionally, translating them into other languages such as English is considered challenging due to the cognitive resemblance, nature, and senses they ex…
The Challenges Facing Translation Students in Translating Sports Idiomatic Expressions from Arabic into English
This study aims to examine the most commonly used strategies for translating sports idiomatic expressions from Arabic to English. It also aims to address the main difficulties faced by MA translation students when translating sports idiomatic expressions used in sports headlines from Arabic into English. Additionally, it aims to provide solutions and recommendations to overcome these problems. The sample for the study consisted of 40 MA translati…
The Language of Flowers in Selected Poems by William Blake
The study aims at analyzing the meanings and symbolic implications of flowers in selected poems by William Blake (1757-1827) from a feminist perspective. This paper analyzes the themes and symbolism of different kinds of flowers to explain how William Blake tries to expose the situation of women in the patriarchal nineteenth-century society. The study discusses the language of flowers from a feminist perspective relying on three prominent feminis…
The Effects of Shadow-Reading on EFL Learners’ Reading Comprehension
The current study investigates the effects of shadow-reading on the development of the reading comprehension of undergraduate students who studied English at Ajloun University College/ Al-Balqa Applied University. The researchers randomly selected 100 EFL learners from the Department of English Language at Ajloun University College who enrolled in the reading course in the first semester2021/2022. The students were first and second-year students …
The Impact of Dialogue Journal Writing on the Writing Skills of Jordanian Efl Learners and Their Attitudes Towards Writing
Purpose of the study: The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of dialogue journal writing (DJW) on learning the vocabulary, organization, and grammar of English. It also explores the impact of DJW on the attitudes of students towards writing in English. Methodology: The sample of the study consists of 50 undergraduate Jordanian students divided equally into an experimental and control group. The control group was given traditional …
The study of refusals and pragmatic modifiers in jordanian arabic
This study aims at investigating politeness strategies and pragmatic modifiers used by native speakers of Jordanian Arabic to perform the speech act of refusal. The data were collected from 24 hours of recorded conversations taken from different mixed and same-sex conversations by native speakers of Jordanian Arabic. The researchers observed these conversations and utterances that perform the speech act of refusal. The strategies of refusals were…
A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordanian Newspapers
The present study employs corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to investigate the attitudes of Jordanian news towards the Syrian refugee crisis. The corpus of the research, which consists of 10140 articles (Word types: 103170 and Word tokens: 1956589), were taken from the Petra news agency between 2016 and 2018. Antconc Tools Version 3.4.4w was used to analyze the data. The study used corpus statistical tools of collocates and conco…
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The Impact of Dialogue Journal Writing on the Writing Skills of Jordanian Efl Learners and Their Attitudes Towards Writing
Purpose of the study: The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of dialogue journal writing (DJW) on learning the vocabulary, organization, and grammar of English. It also explores the impact of DJW on the attitudes of students towards writing in English. Methodology: The sample of the study consists of 50 undergraduate Jordanian students divided equally into an experimental and control group. The control group was given traditional …
The study of refusals and pragmatic modifiers in jordanian arabic
This study aims at investigating politeness strategies and pragmatic modifiers used by native speakers of Jordanian Arabic to perform the speech act of refusal. The data were collected from 24 hours of recorded conversations taken from different mixed and same-sex conversations by native speakers of Jordanian Arabic. The researchers observed these conversations and utterances that perform the speech act of refusal. The strategies of refusals were…
A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordanian Newspapers
The present study employs corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to investigate the attitudes of Jordanian news towards the Syrian refugee crisis. The corpus of the research, which consists of 10140 articles (Word types: 103170 and Word tokens: 1956589), were taken from the Petra news agency between 2016 and 2018. Antconc Tools Version 3.4.4w was used to analyze the data. The study used corpus statistical tools of collocates and conco…
The Language of Flowers in Selected Poems by William Blake
The study aims at analyzing the meanings and symbolic implications of flowers in selected poems by William Blake (1757-1827) from a feminist perspective. This paper analyzes the themes and symbolism of different kinds of flowers to explain how William Blake tries to expose the situation of women in the patriarchal nineteenth-century society. The study discusses the language of flowers from a feminist perspective relying on three prominent feminis…
The Effects of Shadow-Reading on EFL Learners’ Reading Comprehension
The current study investigates the effects of shadow-reading on the development of the reading comprehension of undergraduate students who studied English at Ajloun University College/ Al-Balqa Applied University. The researchers randomly selected 100 EFL learners from the Department of English Language at Ajloun University College who enrolled in the reading course in the first semester2021/2022. The students were first and second-year students …
The Challenges Facing Translation Students in Translating Sports Idiomatic Expressions from Arabic into English
This study aims to examine the most commonly used strategies for translating sports idiomatic expressions from Arabic to English. It also aims to address the main difficulties faced by MA translation students when translating sports idiomatic expressions used in sports headlines from Arabic into English. Additionally, it aims to provide solutions and recommendations to overcome these problems. The sample for the study consisted of 40 MA translati…
The Impact of WhatsApp Groups on Improving Jordanian University Students’ Vocabulary Learning
The current study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of using WhatsApp groups to improve university students’ vocabulary learning. The study adopted a quasi-experimental research design. It consisted of 60 male and female EFL students from Ajloun College University at Al-Balqa Applied University. The participants were assigned evenly into a control group, which was taught via conventional teaching methods, and an experimental group, which w…
The Semantic and Contextual Meanings of the Cognitive Words “yʕqilu
The current study endeavors to identify the semantic and contextual meanings of four cognitive words: “yʕqilu:n, yatafakaru:n, yatadabaru:n, yafqahu:n” in Holy Qur'an. The motive for this study comes from the vague semantic relations expressed by Muslim exegetes and interpreters of these words. Additionally, translating them into other languages such as English is considered challenging due to the cognitive resemblance, nature, and senses they ex…
The Kindness of Nature in Aboulela’s The Kindness of Enemies
This paper aims at studying Leila Aboulela's The Kindness of Enemies through an ecocritical lens. The study investigates how environmental and postcolonial themes intersect in the novel, emphasizing the destructive colonial effect on the environment and on personal and cultural identities. The study also highlights how nature shapes the personal and collective identities of indigenous people. It shows how colonial exploitation of the land and the…
Mhani Alaoui as a mythmaker
The study aims at examining the meanings of myths in Mhani Alaoui’s Dreams of Maryam Tair: Blue Boots and Orange Blossoms. Through the theoretical frameworks of psychoanalysis and feminism, the study explores how myths operate as narratives and symbolic structures that represent female power, independence and rebellion. This research seeks to offer a new perspective to the novel by analyzing myths through combining psychoanalytic archetypal theor…
A linguistic analysis of persuasive language used on Jordanian advertisements in social media
The current study aims to explore the linguistic persuasive linguistic devices used in Jordanian online advertising discourse. It aims to recognize the most frequent linguistic strategies that affect the buying behavior of Jordanian costumers. The study employed a quantitative and qualitative approach to analyze 271 Jordanian advertisements collected from Facebook and Instagram between January and April 2025. The linguistic features of persuasive…
Multifunctionality of mʕliʃ in Jordanian Arabic
The present study explored the pragmatic functions of Mʕliʃ in Jordanian Arabic. The data consisted of 175 tokens of Mʕliʃ compiled from naturally occurring interactions among speakers in the sample. The objective of the present research was to investigate the pragmatic functions of Mʕliʃ through a qualitative discourse-analytic approach, supported by descriptive quantitative analysis. Findings revealed that the Jordanian speakers in the sample u…
Linguistics (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Mathematics education (4 works) · Arabic (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics (2 works) · Newspaper (2 works) · Politeness (2 works)