Arabic Language and Contemporary Challenges (Effects and Requirements)

ISLAM AND CONTEMPORARY ETHICAL CHALLENGES

effects of first language on second language writing-a preliminary contrastive rhetoric study of farsi and english

to explore the idea the investingation proposed, aimed at finding whether the performances of the population of iranians students studying english in an efl context are consistent in l1 and l2 writing taks and whether there is a cross-linguistic transfer in this respect. in this regard the subjects were instructed to write four compositions-two in english and two in farsi-which consisted of an ...

The Arabic language and the semantic web: Challenges and opportunities

Since the advent of the Semantic Web in the late 90’s, many Web applications were created to benefit from the capabilities provided by Semantic Web technologies. These capabilities include intelligent reasoning over data, semantic search and data interoperability. However, most Semantic Web technologies are dedicated to processing Latin family scripts, thus, an apparent lack of Arabic script su...

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

internet and arabic language

arabic language has etperienced many threats from the very time of the advent of islam up to now. these threats are doubled in the modern time. among these threats we can refer to the we of colloquialism or writing in latin alphabets forwhich somer have reactrd positively. specially in chatting. the output of this process haslead to creation of a language called .the language of chat. microsaft...