Understanding breaking news necessitates a special attention, since they are written with a special style. The study aims at identifying the difficulties faced by the Iraqi university EFL learners in comprehending English breaking news. The study included 10 fourth year students enrolled at the Department of English, College of Education for Humanities, University of Anbar. Thus, a questionnaire as a research instrument, was sent online to the students. The questionnaire points were related to the identification of difficulties faced by the learners in comprehending English breaking news. The data of the study were (10) headlines selected purposively from Euronews website. The data were qualitatively analyzed based on quantifying the quality procedure. The findings showed that (54%) of the total number of the students stated that the headlines are difficult to understand, and (46%) considered them easy. Based on these findings, the study has concluded that students faced four main difficulties: neologism, difficult vocabulary, ellipsis, and passive voice when reading news headlines. Neologism has scored the highest percentage (32.4324%), while passive voice has been the lowest (5.4054%).
لا يخفى على الجميع من ان الفرد العربي يعاني من ضعف الوعي بالذات الوعي السياسي ، مما جعل الدولة و اهمية وجودها و المحافظة على مؤسساتها ليست ضمن اهتماماته مما جعل الباحثين يتساءلون عن امكانية تعزيزه و مدى تأثير ذلك على مستقبل بناء الدولة العربية المعاصرة ، لذلك حاولت الدراسة تناول موضوع الوعي المجتمعي وأثره في بناء الدولة من خلال رؤية فكرية واضحة المعالم، مزجت بين ما هو اجتماعي وسياسي لتحديد مفهوم الوعي
... Show MoreTranslating culture-specific proverbs (CSPs) is a challenging task since they often occur in a peculiar context. Further, CSPs are intended to imply meanings that extend far beyond the literal meaning of such a kind of proverbs. As far as English and Arabic are concerned, translators often encounter problems in translating CSPs due to cultural differences between the source language(SL) and the target language (TL) as well as what seems to be the lack of equivalence for some CSPs.
In view of this, the present study aims at investigating the translation of CSPs in three English-Arabic dictionaries of proverbs, namely Dictionary of Common English Proverbs Translated and Explained (2004), One thousand and One English Pr
... Show Moreاستهدف البحث الحالي قياس الذاكرة العاملة لدى التالميذ ذوي صعوبات تعلم القراءة، وتحقيقا ألهداف البحث اعد الباحثان اختبار الذاكرة العاملة للتالميذ ذوي صعوبات القراءة باستعمال مهام بصرية - سمعية وتنفيذية على وفق إنموذج بادلي)Baddely)، ثم استخرج الخصائص السيكومترية لكل منهما المتمثلة بالصدق والثبات. وتحدد البحث الحالي بالتالميذ ذوي صعوبات تعلم القراءة في المدارس االبتدائية التابعة للمدير ية العامة لتربية بابل ف
... Show MoreBN Rashid, Ajes: Asian Journal of English Studies, 2013
It is axiomatic that languages mirror the world view of their users. Manipulating honorific forms among people inevitably reflects this truth . Honorifics are conventionalized forms or expressions manifested in all the world's languages and are used to express the social status of the participants in the verbal interaction and to convey indications like politeness and respect . English is no exception. However the question is what exactly creates these forms and their meanings. Although honorifics have been extensively researched from a grammatical and semantic angle , yet they haven’t received that significant attention i
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The research study focused on the need to clarify the relationship between the Websites of Iraqi Newspapers and their roles in covering the internal crises in Iraq. The selection of Iraqi websites for the newspapers Al-Zaman and Al-Sabah was adopted as one of the most important media with a wide audience; and as a model of hot news and continuous coverage of those sites since 2003 so far. As a result, this necessitated the emergence of new types of methods of editing and writing news stories related to Iraq.
Consequently, the enormous and rapidly changing amount of Iraq news, the process of preparing and creating news has become a complex industry
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