This study aimed at investigating the problems that translators faced when subtitling cultural expressions from English into Arabic. To achieve this goal, the researchers selected a convenient sample comprising 40 graduate and 40 undergraduate students who were enrolled in the English language programs during the academic year 2012/2013 in…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore how healthcare professionals in Denmark perceived and enacted their role as diabetes trainers for Arabic-speaking immigrants in three new local authority settings. The paper used positioning theory, which is a dynamic alternative to the more static concept of role in that it seeks to capture the…

Twitter accounts of a sample of language and translation instructors in Saudi Arabia were examined to find out the percentage of language and translation instructors having a twitter account; the number of followers, tweets, pictures, links and date created; issues and topics tweeted; the percentage and types of instructional tweets; the language…

This study analyzed a sample of online Arabic-English-Arabic specialized dictionaries of the Arabization Center in Morocco, the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo, the Saudi Terminology Databank (BASM), School Arabia glossaries, Dictionary Bay, and Babylon, to identify their entry design, entry components, breadth of coverage, whether they include…

In the context of English as a global language in which the interaction is not only between native speakers and ESL speakers but also among non-native speakers themselves, there is a need to investigate how well L2 listeners can judge and successfully comprehend accented English produced by other L2 speakers; particularly, how the specific…

Though the topic enjoys a general currency within informal scholarly debate, this is the first linguistic study to explore the nature and extent of the use of English in Omani EIL students' everyday lives. It delineates the social factors that influence this use and offers a data-driven analysis of the most frequently found linguistic patterns and…

This study explored how a computer-assisted second-language instructional method introduced basic Arabic vocabulary and grammar and affected vocabulary acquisition. This instructional method used audio, text and animated images to introduce the vocabulary and grammar in a meaningful step-by-step presentation. Volunteers from Brigham Young…

English and Arabic have different word formation processes with which translation students must be familiar. Results of a needs-assessment questionnaire showed that junior translation students almost had no knowledge of English word formation processes such as compounding, derivation, back formation, conversion, extension, blending, clipping,…

A discussion of the rules of classical Arabic meter in poetry, and how meter is employed by the poet. (Text is in French.) (CK)

BASIC PROBLEMS IN THE COMPOSITION OF BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES WERE DISCUSSED, INCLUDING (1) DETERMINING USER-GROUPS FOR WHOM A DICTIONARY IS INTENDED, (2) INDICATING MULTIPLE SEMANTIC MEANINGS, AND (3) COMPILING A DICTIONARY FOR USER-GROUPS WHO AIM AT EXPRESSING THEMSELVES IN A LANGUAGE AS WELL AS COMPREHENDING IT. FURTHER DISCUSSIONS DEALT WITH…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS TWO VOLUME WORK IS TO INTRODUCE THE STUDENT TO MODERN, STANDARD ARABIC WITH CONCENTRATION ON THE STYLE EMPLOYED IN FORMAL DOCUMENTS AND INTERNATIONAL TREATIES. IT IS ASSUMED THAT THE INTERMEDIATE STUDENT USING THE READERS HAS CONTROL OF THE ESSENTIALS OF ARABIC GRAMMAR BUT HAS NOT BEEN ADEQUATELY EXPOSED TO MODERN LITERARY…

This lexicon, a preliminary publication of a project dealing with Arabic dialects in the Chad-Sudan area, has been compiled from four earlier lexicons: G. Trenga, "Le bura-maband du Ouadai"; H. Carbou, "Methode pratique pour l'etude de l'arabe parle au Ouaday et a l'Est du Tchad"; G.L. Lethem, "Colloquial Arabic, Shua…

This study of Arabic culture, language, history, and nationalism provides an inside view of key issues in understanding the Arab world. It combines detailed readings of Arabic nationalist literature, the scholarly literature on nationalism, and sociolinguistics work on language and national identity. Seven chapters focus on the following issues:…

THE PRESENT DICTIONARY IS BASED ON THE EDUCATED COLLOQUIAL ARABIC OF BAGHDAD. INTENDED AS A COMPREHENSION DICTIONARY FOR AMERICAN ENGLISH SPEAKERS, ITS USE REQUIRES A BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF ARABIC STRUCTURE AND PHONOLOGY AS WELL AS AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE STANDARD ARRANGEMENT OF AN ARABIC DICTIONARY. THE ENTRIES, WHICH APPEAR IN PHONEMIC…