Current Theses

Developing Intensive Reading Skills and Intercultural Communicative Competence: A Study of Tertiary Level EFL Learners in Palestine

Hassan Abdul Hamid Hussein Naqeeb

Saudi Parents’ Perspectives on Writing Children’s Stories in Colloquial Arabic

Ayah Hamad Alsaleh

Film Criticism: The Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights in Egyptian Arab Cinema

Shatha Ghazi Alajmi

The Effect of English Language and its Culture on the Identity and Culture of Saudi EFL Learners

Asma Zuhair Alamri

Effectiveness of Communicative Language Teaching in Non-Urban Areas’ Primary Schools: The Case of Afif, Saudi Arabia

Amjad Nawaf Eid Alroqi

Exploring The Relationship between Self-Efficacy and Second Language Writing Anxiety Among Saudi EFL Students: A Correlational Study

Amal Hassan Almutairy

Investigation of the Use of Computer-aided Translation (CAT) Tools in Freelancing Practice in Saudi Arabia

Shuaa Hamad Althbaity

The Contribution of Post-Occupation Iraqi Translated Fiction to the Western Science and Fantasy Fiction Genres

Samer Ayad Ali Al-Fahham

Saudi Graduate Students’ Identities in Relation to Emotion and Agency in Applied Linguistics: A Narrative Multiple Case Study

Ghaida Mosfer Alqahtani

Saudi EFL Universities Students’ Perceptions of Taking Computer-based Tests and Paper-based Tests

Badryah Hussain Hassan Ghumssani

Archived Theses

The Impact of Teacher Development Groups on Omani EFL Teachers’Classroom Practice

Salim Ali Khalfan Al-Khayari

The Effectiveness of Using Specific Teaching Strategies in Reducing EFL Learners’ Speaking Anxiety

Danah Abdulrazzak Al-Duwaile

Critical Discourse Analysis of the Image of Arabs

Amal Ibrahim Shousha

Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: Comparing Refusal Patterns between Native speakers of British English (NS) And Non-native speaker Saudi’s (NNS) who study in the UK

Musha’al A. AlBugam

A Cognitive Semantic Study of the Impact ofSocio-Cultural Factors on Meaning Construction in Selected English and Arabic Proverbs: A Contrastive Study

Inam Ismael Taher

The Role of NLP Principles as Tools for Facilitating Learning EFL For Saudi Students

Mohammed A. Abuzaifah

The Expression of Indefiniteness in English and Arabic: A Contrastive Study

Inam Ismael Taher

Power Relations through the Flouting of Cooperative Principles in Popular Culture- House M.D.

Maryam Fadhel Al-Doseri

Investigating Native English Speakers’ Perception of Novel Arabic Phonemes after First Exposure

Hala Alwohaibi

A Systemic Functional Linguistic Analysis of Cohesion and The Writing Quality of Saudi Female EFL Undergraduate Students

Khawater Fahad Alshalan

Teachers’ Perceptions of Action Research as a Tool for Professional Development: The Role of the ‘Research for Professional Development’ (RPD) Course for In-Service Omani Teachers

Saif Said Rashid Al -Abri

Investigating the Use of Instagram as a MALL Tool: The Case of Al-Imam University EFL Students

Athar Yousef Abdullah Al-Garawi

An Application of Vinay and Darbelnet’s Translation Model to the English Translation of Ghassan Kanafani’s Novel Men in the Sun: A Descriptive Analytical Study

Sarah I. Alqunaibet

The Effect of Using Mind Maps to Enhance EFL Learners’ Writing Achievement and Students’ Attitudes Towards Writing at Taif University

Hadeel Mohammad Al Kamli

The Effect of the 5Es Model on EFL Female Students’ Motivation and Achievement at Taif University

Shatha Abdullah Obaidullah Alorabi

Translating Idioms from English into Arabic: Appointment with Death as a Case Study

Arwa Abdulaziz Assaf Al-assaf

Cultural Norms in Translating Children’s Literature

Nouf S. Al-Fouzan

The Use of Code-Switching by EFL Saudi University and School Teachers

Ashwaq Maziyad Saad Alshugithri

Saudi EFL University Instructors’ Barriers to Teaching the Speaking Skills: Causes and Solutions

Noura Abdulaziz Abdulmohsen Al Hassan

Wide Sargasso Sea: Antoinette’s Living Spaces as a Case Study

Fann Oudah Aljohani

The Application of Catford’s Translation Shifts to the Translation of the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child from English into Arabic

Ala Bandar Abdulaziz Altwaijri

An Application of Newmark’s Procedures to Muhammad Abul Quasem’s English Translation of Mohammad Al-Ghazali’s Islamic Guidance

Rawan Abdulaziz Al Saleh

A Teacher-Based Evaluation of the English Language Textbook (Get Ready1&2) for Saudi Fourth Grade Primary

Abdullah Deyap Arar Alenezi

The Impact of Positive and Corrective Feedback via Showbie on Saudi Students’ English Writing

Najat Abdulaziz Al-Saleh

The Impact of Using Edmodo as a Blended Learning Medium on Promoting Saudi EFL Female Secondary School Students’ English Grammar

Nuha Saleh Al-Essa

Investigating Saudi EFL Learners’ Use and Teachers’ Perception of English Phrasal Verbs

Eman Saud Rashid Al-Otaibi

A Postcolonial Reading of Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss

Batool Alkhodairy

A Pragmatic Analysis of Pragmatics of Speech Acts in English Language Classrooms at Imam Mohammed Ibn Saud Islamic University

Reef Bijad Alharbi

Investigating Foreign Language Reading Anxiety among Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University and Majma’ah University English Language Major Students

Aljowharah Khaled Alsaleh

Understanding Hyperbole

Noura Aljadaan

“The Truth May Will Turn Out To Be More Stranger Than we Think”: The “Whydunit” in Agatha Christie’s A Pocket Full of Rye

Huriyyah ALRaznah

Incidental L2 Vocabulary Learning through Using Hypertext Glosses

Eman Hamad Almutairi

The Role of Integrative Motivation in the Acquisition of American English Slang by Saudi Female Undergraduate English Majors

Najla Abdulaziz Alshawi

The Effect of Memory Strategy Training on Vocabulary Learning by EFL Female Students of the College of Languages and Translation: An Experimental Study

Ghadah Fahad Alzaidi

The Impact of Digital tools on Motivating young Arab EFL Learners to Improve Their Speaking Skills

Asmaa Ahmad Mohammad Al.kandari

Investigating Syntactic Errors among Saudi EFL Learners

Malak Fhaid Alqhtani

The Catalyst: An Indepth Look at the Damaging Effects of the Absent Character in Selected American Plays

Aljawharah Hussain Hamad Alharbi

A Socio-cognitive Approach to Factive Presupposition and Epistemic Modality in Hillary Clinton’s Political Discourse: Tunisia’s Democratic Transition as a Case Study

Dr. Thouraya Zheni

William Golding’s Free Fall as a Künstlerroman

Noura Al-Madi

A Study on the Impact of Arabic Diglossia on L2 learners of Arabic: Examining Motivation and Perception.

Maha Abdelrahman Al Hariri Al Zahrani

The Experience of Saudi Female Students Attending Mixed Gender ESL Courses in Melbourne, Australia.

Sahar Mohamad Ali Alghamdi

Violence Against Women: A Feminist Study of Women’s Situation during the Civil War of the Democratic Republic of Congo in Lynn Nottage’s Ruined.

Fatimah Saleh Ali Al-Humoud

Progressivity Expressions in Hassawi Dialect.

Hamdah Mohammad Alabdullah

The Montessori Method in Enhancing English As a Foreign Language Kindergarten Children’s Learning: A Case Study

Hajer Fahad Alaskar

Intentional Vocabulary Learning Using Web-based Flashcard System

Sarah Nasser Marshed Alzeer

Arab World English Journal (May 2017) Theses / Dissertation (ID 185) Author: Asma Ibrahim Alshabanah Thesis Title: Summarization Strategies Adopted by the Senior Level Female Students of the Department of English at Ki

Asma Ibrahim Alshabanah

The Effectiveness of Cooperative Learning on EFL Proficiency: A Case Study of Grade Ten Female Classroom in the New Developed High School Project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Amirah Khamis AlMashjari

Exploring Saudi EFL Distance Learners’ Attitudes towards Synchronous CMC: Effects on Language Use

Reham Basabain

The Linguistic Interference between English and Arabic at the Morphemic Level by Saudi Female Students

Aisha Mohammed Asiri

Evaluating the Metalanguage of Pragmatics Content of Selected Listening and Speaking Textbooks

Ghada Ali AlGhamdi

Effectiveness of Using YouTube on Enhancing EFL Students’ Listening Comprehension Skills

Ebtesam Thabet Alqahtani

Designing A Model for Evaluating Pre-Service EFL Teacher Education Programmes: An Exploratory Study in the Yemeni Context

Waddah Saleh Mohammed Mahwari

The Effect of Noticing L1/L2 Differences on Saudi EFL College Students’ Acquisition of the Present Perfect

Maha Jasim Al-Hejji

Cohesive features in persuasive (argumentative and non-argumentative) writing produced by Omani undergraduates

Dalal Abdullah Al-Shekaili

Gender representation in Bahraini English textbooks: a critical discourse analysis

Wafa Alsatrawi Thesis Title:

Omani Students’ Perceptions of the Use and Applicability of Explicit Grammar Instruction in Communicative Language Teaching

Sultan Mohammed Saaiyed Al-Rushaidi

Exploring Culturally Sensitive Alternatives for the FCE

Edmund O’Donovan

Translating Religious Terms and Culture in ‘The Sealed Nectar’: A model for quality assessment

Raja S AlGhamdi

The Effectiveness of Using Schema Theory in Developing EFL Secondary-Stage Students’ Listening Comprehension

Nashmiah Awad Almutairi

The Effectiveness of Using Schema Theory in Developing EFL Secondary-Stage Students’ Listening Comprehension

Nashmiah Awad Almutairi

The Effect of Using Padlet on Enhancing EFL Writing Performance

Farah Nasser Algraini

The Effect of Wikis and Process Writing on The Performance of Saudi Female EFL Secondary Students In Writing

Reem Fahad Alshalan

Code Switching in WhatsApp Messages among Kuwaiti High School Students

Ahmed Samir Abdulghaffar Elsayed

The Effectiveness of Cooperative-Online Synchronous Learning in Promoting Reading Skills of Freshman Female Students at the College of Languages and Translation, KSU

Mashael Salem AlSalem

Evaluating Enterprise Series Textbooks from a Cultural Perspective and Developing a Unit Based on Cultural Criteria

Hanan Majed Madanat

An Investigation into the Perception and Production of English Vowels by Saudi Female EFL Students from COLT at IMSIU.

Relative Effectiveness of Teaching Writing as Process vs. Product Using Moodle to Saudi EFL Students of Imam University

Wejdan Fahad Alshalan

Teachers’ Perceptions About The Future Of English Language Teaching And Learning In Tunisia After The 2011 Revolution

Dr. Samira Boukadi Haj Sassi

A Pragmatic Study of Saudi Female Children’s Ability to Answer Oral Questions as EFL Learners within the Scope of Relevance Theory

Nasiba AbdulRahman Alyami

Task-based English Language Needs Analysis for Saudi Female Nurses in Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh

Daad Ahmed Al-Salamah

The Saudi Teachers’ Identities in Teaching English as an International Language

Alya Khulaif Alshammari

The role of motivational factors in the apparent lack of success in English language learning in Arabic-speaking countries, particularly Oman and the United Arab Emirates

Kathy O’Sullivan

Standardized Testing of the Non-Standardized Arabic-Speaking ELLs: A Misalignment of Perceptions

Afrin Fatima Alavi

How Culturally situated Notions of ‘Politeness’ Forms Influence the Way Saudi Postgraduate Students Write Academic English?

Hanan Salem Almalki

Attaining Fluency in Oral Communication: The Case of Students at DLU English Department.

Fawzia Bouhass Benaissi

An Investigation of the Effect of Incorporating Input Enhancement in Dictogloss Tasks to Teach English Grammar on the Development of ESL Female Learners’ Grammatical Awareness

Nada Hamad Al-Jamal

The Use of The Mother Tongue in The Language Classroom: Attitudes and Practices

Ali Abdulkarim Alsaawi

Depth and Breadth of Vocabulary Knowledge: Assessing their Roles in Reading Comprehension of High-School EFL Learners in the UAE

Hamdy Ibrahim Ibrahim Elmasry

Reformulation as Feedback on Students’ Writing

Norman Williams

Error Analysis of Subject-Verb Agreement in the Writing of EFL Saudi Female Students: A Corpus-Based Study

Dalal A. Al-Dubaib

Non-English-Speaking International (NESI) Students’ Tertiary learning Strategies in Relation to English for Academic Purposes

Rui Ting Wu

Investigating Imam University Students’ Reading Strategies Online

Fatimah Abdullah Al-Yami

A Cross-cultural Study of the Speech Act of Apology by Saudi and Australian Females Subject/major: Applied Linguistics

Shatha Ahmed S Al Ali

Arabic, English, or 3arabizi? Code and script choice within discussion forums on a Jordanian website”

Dr. Robert M. Bianchi

A Dissertation on Students’ Readiness for Autonomous Learning of English as a Foreign Language

Omer Tamer

A comparative and evaluative study of motivational techniques used in the second intermediate level EFL classroom in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Ohood Suliman S. Al Henaky

The Effect of Using Computer-Assisted Semantic Mapping on Nursing Students’ Reading Comprehension of Medical Texts and

Ghyzayel Muhammad Al-Otaibi

The Effects of the Native Semantic Structures on the Representation and Processing of L2 Vocabulary for Arabic Speakers of English

Layan Saud Alkhathlan

What are the attitudes and perceptions of students, teachers and management towards the use of interactive whiteboards in our EFL classrooms at English language institute, Saudi Arabia?

Haseeb ur Rehman Toor

Level of Proficiency and Identity of Emirati Students in UAE Public Schools

Taghreed Ibrahim Masri

An Investigation into Arab Students’ Perceptions of Effective EFL Teachers at University Level

Saleh Mohamed Saafin

Effect of a Reflective E-portfolio Design Workshop on Saudi EFL Teachers’ Reflection Awareness: An Exploratory Case Study

Hind Hamad Al-Jamal

The Effectiveness of a Task- Based Instruction program in developing the English Language Speaking Skills of Secondary Stage Students.

Shaimaa Abd El Fattah Ibrahim Torky

The Internationalization of Japan’s Junior High School English Textbooks: Defining Japanese Identity in an Age of Globalization

Donald Glen Patterson

College Instructors’ and Learners’ Attitudes to Authentic EFL Reading Materials in Saudi Arabia

Depth and Breadth of Vocabulary Knowledge: Assessing their Roles in Reading Comprehension of High-School EFL Learners in the UAE

Hamdy Ibrahim Ibrahim Elmasry

The Effect of the Reciprocal Technique and the Technique Described in the Teacher’s Guide on the Jordanian Secondary Students’ Writing Skills in English

Ahmad Fayez Mutlaq Al-Zu’be

Evaluation of Machine Translation Systems: The Translation Quality of Three Arabic Systems

Yasmin Hikmet Abdul Hamid Hannouna

Encouraging Teachers to be Reflective: Advantages, Obstacles and Limitations

Umama Ahmed Salim AL Kalbani

Relations between teachers’ conceptions of in-class and out-of-class interactions and reported teaching practices: Teachers’ belief study

Kimberly Bunts-Anderson