During the last two decades, Email hasn't become only a primary tool of communication, but also an integral part of any organization, including educational systems. Although Email has proved to encompasses much of benefits, however, it has a dark side too. What brought this issue into attention is that the management of this dark side in terms of Email usage and downsides is a major challenge and an international wide-spread concern.Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the downsides of using school Emails for regular and ongoing communication from teachers perspectives in private schools in UAE. An additional goal of the current study was to explore the existing regulations exercised by school leaders in order to manage these downsides in an attempt to develop important practical implications which can serve as a foundation for "Email code of conduct".
This study is concerned with graduate students' thesis/dissertation supervisors' interpersonal approaches. As its framework, the study adopted Glickman, Gordon and Ross-Gordon (2013) four approaches to supervision: directive control, directive informational, collaborative, and nondirective. The purpose of this explanatory mixed method study is to describe students' perceptions of the approaches used, their satisfaction with these approaches. The study was conducted by distributing a questionnaire to all graduate students at one of the United Arab Emirates universities who have written a thesis/dissertation during 2015-2017 (N=213), and then, interviewing a group of them (N=16). The study revealed that the most used supervisory approach by the supervisors was the collaborative interpersonal approach. The level of graduate students' satisfaction with their supervisors' approaches was satisfied to highly satisfied. The more collaborative the supervisor was, the more satisfied the student became. In contrast, the more supervisor uses the non-directive interpersonal approach, the less satisfied students became.
The main purpose of this mixed-method research study is to obtain a finer-grained understanding of the primary opportunities and barriers to adopt and accredit online learning in Lebanon, then offer a strategic plan for successful implementation. It aims to (1) reflect on the current status of online education in higher education, (2) examine the readiness amongst students and faculty members for online technologies, (3) explore the perception of other key stakeholders, and (3) investigate the prospects and challenges further to the systematic implementation of pioneering post graduate online diplomas. It is anticipated that the findings will bring about an urge for institutional adoption of online learning in higher education, and a proposal for national accreditation in Lebanon that comprises dynamics of change, perceived barriers, offered solutions and possible policy options.
The objective of the paper is to map the challenges associated with developing inclusive curriculum for gifted students in the UAE and provide practical suggestions in order to develop an effective and inclusive curriculum that addresses the specific needs of gifted students within mainstream educational environments. Several questions were explored and multiple approaches were highlighted in an attempt to provide analytical, conceptual and empirical dimensions to the mapping effort of current challenges and future prospects of gifted education curriculum design and development. The outcome of the exploratory endeavor of the paper yields key conclusions and practical recommendations in four categories as the following: (1) policy consideration for gifted education; (2) licensure and qualifications for gifted education practitioners; (3) curriculum innovation, inclusion and cultural considerations; and, (4) gifted education and psychological science. In conclusion, active advocacy for giftedness and gifted education is necessary for the advancement of giftedness education and research.
This research investigates engineering students' perceptions of flipped learning at American University of Sharjah (AUS). Two undergraduate and three graduate engineering classes were involved in this study. A mixed method design is utilized involving the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data. The Revised Community of Inquiry framework (RCOI) was adopted to assess students' perceptions of their learning experience. Further, open-ended questions were adopted to get additional insight into the students' perceptions. In this paper, a discussion of the preliminary data analysis of how the students perceive the flipped learning environment will be shared.
The main concern of this paper is to examine the notion of conjunction in both Arabic and English. It also seeks to assess the accuracy of the translations of the selected conjunctive waw al-est'enaf offered by two of translators of the glorious Quran; M. M. Pickthall and Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali. Surat Ya-seen has been chosen for the assessment. The adequacy of the translations of this conjunctive under investigation will be assessed in terms of its interpretation by Ibn-Ashour. The study concludes that translating the resumptive wa (waw al-este'naf) in the Quranic text is not quite easy because of the inability of some translators to recognize the functions of conjunction wa, their tendency to translate the conjunction wa out of context, or their inattentiveness to most of the linguistic and exegetical works pertinent to conjunction wa.
This study investigates the errors committed in translating public signs. The major bulk of the study is based on a corpus of around 300 public signs collected from road signs, shop signs, advertisement brochures, and shopping receipts. It aims at identifying, analyzing, and remedying the errors found in the translation of public signs. The study analyses the types of errors present in public signs and categorizes them according to three groups: lexical, grammatical, and orthographic errors. The study then suggests possible translations and solution strategies to translate them. The study found that public signs constituted an immense source of faulty translations that reflected the translators' incompetence in the field of translation and language studies. Most of the errors identified in the study related to the translators' lack of knowledge of the source and target language in terms of lexis, syntax, and structure. Finally, the study suggested possible remedies and solutions to prevent these errors from reoccurring in the future. Furthermore, the study suggested that further research is needed in order to identify other types of translation errors in public signs and highlighted the dire need to implement a code of conduct and ethics for the translation of public signs in the middle East.
This paper aims to conduct a comparative examination of two Arabic translations of one of Steinbeck's masterpieces The Pearl by Mahmoud Hosni (2017) and Mostafa Ali (2010). The comparative study intends to compare and contrast the two Arabic translations as it seeks to identify the culture-specific items based on Newmark's (1988) categorization, viz., ecology, material culture, social culture, organizations, customs, ideas, gestures, and habits, in addition to their translations in each version. Moreover, exploring the translation strategies adopted by each translator in rendering CSIs in The Pearl, based on Newmark's (1988) taxonomy of strategies, i.e. transference, naturalization, cultural equivalent, functional equivalent, descriptive equivalent, componential analysis, synonymy, through-translation, shifts or transpositions. Determining whether each translation applied one of Venuti's (1995) taxonomy of strategies, i.e. foreignization or domestication, according to the translation strategy used to find out which one is more domesticated; i.e. TL-oriented and which is more foreignized; SL-oriented.
Ever since Translation and Interpreting were recognized as standing professions, Linguists have always paid close attention to technological advancement in order to explore opportunities for improving such rapidly changing and volatile field. Not only were translation subject-matter experts keen on coping with technological progression, rather their interest has grown over the years to seek innovative approaches to utilize technology for translation purposes. Fierce debates have sparked between Pro-Automation advocates and anti-tech Traditionalist's mindset of translators, the latter arguing against the poor quality translation produced by such systems that rely solely on Artificial Intelligence. It soon became obvious that, instead of elimination, there needs to be a balance between humans and machines in the translation process, in order to optimize performance. Whereas technology-aided tools enhance translators' efficiency, the human element proved to be fundamentally crucial and, somewhat, indispensable in all translation or interpreting related activities.
This paper presents an extract of the literature review, research agenda and initial conceptual framework for a doctoral thesis investigating how directors of multinational corporations (MNCs) engage with corporate purpose.In a twenty first century bedevilled by grand challenges,corporate purpose as the corporate contribution to humanity, next to shareholder value maximisation is being questioned. The thesis posits that if beneficial changes to the governance of MNCs are among the greatest challenges faced by humanity and MNCs are to deliver a positive contribution to society, then it is of critical importance to understand how directors who are members of corporate boards engage with purpose at MNC parent and subsidiary level, as governance operates at multiple levels and purpose can be the glue that binds together corporate policies and actions, ultimately adding or destroying value for society.
