Oraib Mango TSSA Winter 17

Enhances faculty\u27s teaching by attending a conference devoted to university teaching, a high-impact practice, evidence-based practice or a newly developing teaching practice

Use of ePortfolios as a high-impact learning practice for the B.A. in Arabic program at CSUSB

This paper offers a description of how ePortfolios can be used in world language learning programs--specifically Arabic-- not only to assess the success of the program but also to provide students with a platform for reflection, self regulation and self assessment. ePortfolios allow students to set and review their goals, engage with and reflect upon their learning as they document and track the progress of their language proficiency and intercultural competence starting from first year courses and ending with a capstone Signature Work project

Oraib Mango CD Summer 2014

Supports faculty to redesign or develop a course in ways that implement high-impact, evidence-based, and/or innovative teaching strategies to improve student learning

Oraib Mango TSSA Fall 2011

Enhances faculty\u27s teaching by attending a conference devoted to university teaching, a high-impact practice, evidence-based practice or a newly developing teaching practice

Uncertainty and Resistance in Jordanian Women\u27s Perceptions of their Positionings in Society

In many parts of the world, women continue to face issues of inequality and discrimination. While the plight of Arab women for gender equality has gained media attention, fewer studies have investigated the perceptions of Arab women themselves on this issue. In this study, through discourse and content analysis of face to face interviews, I investigated the meanings that Jordanian women made of how the society viewed and positioned them. While the participants were aware of the dominant Discourse that limited women and positioned them as inferior to men, their talk also expressed their resistance to this discourse. A post-structuralist feminist discourse analysis lens allowed for the investigation of competing discourses within the women’s talk. Between the relayed Discourse on women and the participants’ discourse of resistance, a discourse of uncertainty evolved as they struggled to position themselves amidst competing discourses

Oraib Mango CD Summer 2013

Supports faculty to redesign or develop a course in ways that implement high-impact, evidence-based, and/or innovative teaching strategies to improve student learning

The Effect of an Integrative Skills Program on Developing Jordanian University Students' Select Multiple Intelligences

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of an integrative skills program on developing Jordanian university students’ select- multiple intelligences. It also aimed at investigating the effect of gender and the interaction between gender and the instructional program on intelligences. The participants were 122 university students. The study adopted a quasi-experimental design. The experimental group was instructed using the integrative program.  An analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to analyze the students’ full degrees on the intelligence test. The results showed that there was a statistically significant difference between the adjusted mean scores of students’ intelligences due to the teaching method in favor of the experimental group. The data revealed that there was a statistically significant difference between the adjusted mean scores of students’ intelligences due to gender in favor of the females in the linguistic and interpersonal intelligences and the males in the logical and intrapersonal intelligences. The results showed that there was a statistically significant difference between the adjusted mean scores of intelligences due to the interaction between the teaching method and gender in favor of the females in the linguistic intelligence and the males in the logical intelligence

The semantic photo and its forms in the visual discourse

The Iconic mark has several presentation in our current life, so, the photo in its technical semantic perspective has sequential and intersecting indications to produce the meaning, each of which interprets a series of interrelated symbolic fields; to form the semantic patterns in our daily social, cultural and political life, and reveals the hidden complex pragmatic dimensions which is transmitted by the openness of modern technical non regulated in the characteristics of the dynamic communication in its various forms; while now, the image, drawing, publicity, color, sound, scene, and body gestures are more used than verbal communication; this is in line with the age of technology and speed. The image also penetrates the virtual reality and is presented in a new model and pattern; its work is functional and formal, it does so as a legal value; it no longer has real value for use and circulation; perhaps it erases the most genuine part of the original photo signals which wasn\u27t manipulated by hands; but it turned to establish a single perfect virtual artificial photo that lacks the touching expression, specialization and difference. The eloquence of the visual communication is aimed to explain how the rhetorical systems operates on the iconic and formal form from a semantic perspective and then benefit from the linguistic rhetoric that examines the displacement of the picture, depending on the perceived cognitive and visual levels, in an attempt to question what doesn\u27t utter to illustrate the effect of visual reality photos on those who are able to tal

The Efficacy of a Counseling Program in Stimulating the Academic Achievement of a Student with Learning Difficulties ( A Case Study)

This study aimed at identifying the impact of a counseling program in stimulating the achievement motivation for a student with learning difficulties who suffers from low-level performance motivation. Thus, he was observed and notes were documented around his situation, knowledge, attitudes and self-concept, then his performance was examined during a whole semester in which he was exposed to an educational counseling program for increasing his achievement motivation within specific intervals and this program was executed in the educational counseling room of his school.The quantitative and qualitative analysis of this study, both the diagnostic and the remedial, revealed that the students suffers from low-level motivation towards achievement and performance, and in need for a clear self-concept. Moreover, the study showed that the implemented counseling program was effective in motivating the student and increasing his academic achievement. Key words: Counseling Program, Academic Achievement, Student with learning difficultie