Listening, resistance and mobile phone playlists: musical listening practices of Syrian women living as refugees in northern Jordan

In 2011, when the Syrians poured into the streets in nationwide protest against the regime of Bashar Al-Assad, they did so in song. Public places became filled with the voices of men, women and children who gained courage and determination through an increasing repertoire of songs shared through social media and learned in the homes and on the streets. Later as the violence intensified in the street, the women returned to their homes, their voices no longer heard in the public protests, their songs playing now from behind closed doors. When their homes were destroyed, many took their children and walked to the safety of neighbouring Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Jordan, songs saved on SIM cards tucked into their bras. This paper looks at those living in the border towns of northern Jordan and at the role the revolutionary songs play in their lives. Through analysis of the songs on the mobile phones of 45 women and interviews with them and their families on the role these have in their day-to-day life, British ethnomusicologist Karen Boswall and Jordanian social anthropologist Dr Ruba Al Akash ask how the songs are contributing to the women’s sense of self and their connection with the country they left behind

EVALUATION OF ANTIBIOTIC’S USE AMONG CHILDREN DURING HOSPITALIZATION

Objectives:To evaluate the use of antibiotics in children during hospitalization and to estimate the inappropriate use of antibiotic. Methods: A review of all antibiotics prescribed for children were admitted to medical ward in Queen Rania hospital over two months. All surgical and trauma cases were excluded. The study was conducted in March and April 2013. Data involved indication, patient’s age, weight, and drug’s route of administration. The collected data were tabulated and kept in special registry file maintained by the author. Results: There were 189 cases admitted to medical wad over two months. Cases were classified into five major groups: respiratory tract infection (28%), urinary tract infection (24.9%), gastroenteritis (21.2%), acute febrile illness (10.6%), neonatal disease (7.9%), and seizures (7.4%). A total of 285 antibiotics were prescribed for all cases and 38.6% of them were prescribed one or more antibiotics, 42.8% of antibiotics were prescribed by incorrectly doses according to indication, patient’s age, weight, and drug’s route of administration. Conclusion: Greater attention and caution are highly needed and recommended when antibiotics prescribed for children especially according to indication and dose calculation. There is a definite antibiotics abuse and antibiotics policy and guidelines is recommended

How Jordanian Banks Measure Learning & Growth Pillar of the Strategic Performance?

Purpose: This research analyzes Jordanian Banks’ Learning & Growth strategic performance (SP). Strategic performance includes learning and growth in the Balanced Scorecard. It incorporates all organizational capital-leveling measures. Learning and growth start process, customer, and financial performance.  Banks' strategic pillar evaluations?   Design/Methodology/Approach: This empirical research answers this question using qualitative data from 24 bank employees from all levels using structured interviews from 61.5% of Jordanian Non-Islamic banks. NVivo-12 evaluated data.   Findings: This research found that the key banks' Learning & Growth performance measures are Employee Incentives, Team Communication, Career Development, Employee Motivation, and Employee Satisfaction. Literature and source data match banks' Learning & Growth metrics. This study chose the top five measures from the vast literature.   Practical implications: Implement initiatives to increase employee engagement, including opportunities for career growth, regular feedback channels, and recognition programs. Create a friendly workplace where people feel empowered to share their ideas and opinions and openly communicate.   Originality value: This research's top five Learning and Growth measurements analyze the S.P.'s Learning & Growth pillar to inform bank managers' strategic planning

Jordanian early primary stage teachers' self-reported practices to develop their pupils reading in Arabic

This study examines teachers’ practices for developing early primary stage (6-9 year-old) pupils’ reading in Arabic in the northern region of Jordan using a 25-item self-assessment checklist and a semi-structured interview. The subjects reported that their practices stem more from extrinsic motivation (e.g. responding to calls for enabling children to take part in literary competitions) than from intrinsic motivation (e.g. a personal interest in reading). The findings showed that 22 items of the Checklist scored moderate to little degrees of practice, which was further confirmed by the results of the interview. Besides, although there were no statistically significant differences among the subjects’ reports of their practices which may be attributed to the effect of gender and academic qualification, statistically significant differences were found due to teaching experience, having studied literacy-related coursework in pre-service preparation, and having a personal interest in reading. The study concludes with relevant implications for reading instruction and teacher education.peer-reviewe

Mathematical Problem Solving Strategies in Plain English

The mathematics word problem solving in EFL setting of Jordanian undergraduates were investigated through Polya’s (1957) adopted test as accompanied by self-report open questions procedures. In this study, mathematical problems content is used to assess their language and learning strategies. The results indicated that participating undergraduates were identified either as low problem solvers as well as limited English language proficiency students. Key words:problem solving strategies, EFL, math, Jordanian undergraduates

Les erreurs orthographiques des étudiants syriens en FLE. Analyse et propositions pédagogiques

ركز هذا العمل على دراسة الأخطاء الإملائية في اللغة الفرنسية عند الطلاب السوريين من منظور تعليمي ولغوي. في بحثنا هذا، قمنا بتحليل الأخطاء الإملائية عند الطلاب بهدف معرفة نقاط الضعف عندهم ووضعنا الفرضيات لأسباب هذه الاخطاء. سعينا ايضا الى معرفة دور تكرار الكلمات على قدرة المتعلم على كتابتها بشكل صحيح. درسنا ايضا تأثير اللغة الأم على الكفاءة الإملائية للطلاب. يركز هذا البحث على تحليل الأخطاء الإملائية القواعدية منها والمعجمية باستخدام ثلاثة أنواع من الاختبار: الإملاء، وتحرير نص روائي وتدوين الملاحظات أثناء المحاضرات وذلك بالاعتماد على عينة مؤلفة من 24 طالبا سوريا. كان هذا بهدف تأسيس مسارات تعليمية لتطوير المهارات الإملائية للمتعلمين. أظهر تحليل النتائج أن الاخطاء الاملائية الصوتية هي الاكثر شيوعا عند المتعلمين السوريين تليها اخطاء التطابق. كان للكلمات المألوفة أيضا دورا في نجاح كتابة هذه الكلمات وخصوصا على المستوى الاملائي المعجمي اكثر منه على المستوى القواعدي. أظهرت الدراسة أيضا أن اللغة العربية كانت مصدرا قويا للأخطاء الاملائية الناجمة عن تداخل اللغتين ولكن هذا الاثر السلبي لم يشمل جميع انواع الأخطاء الإملائية.Ce travail porte sur les erreurs orthographiques en langue française chez des étudiants syriens en se plaçant dans une optique didactique et linguistique. Dans cette étude, nous avons analysé les erreurs orthographiques des sujets pour définir les zones problématiques et faire des hypothèses sur l'origine des erreurs. Nous avons cherché à découvrir le rôle de la fréquence des mots sur la compétence orthographique des sujets et à connaître à quel point la langue maternelle des apprenants marque leur production orthographique. Cette recherche est centrée sur l’analyse des erreurs orthographiques grammaticales et lexicales à l'aide de trois types d'épreuves : la dictée, la rédaction d'un texte narratif et la prise de notes de cours, et ce, en s’appuyant sur un échantillon de 24 étudiants syriens. Le but de cette démarche est d’élaborer des pistes didactiques visant à développer les compétences orthographiques des apprenants. L’analyse des résultats obtenus a montré que les erreurs phonétiques sont celles qui sont les plus nombreuses chez les sujets et qu'elles sont suivies par les erreurs d'accord. De plus, la familiarisation avec les mots a eu un rôle sur la réussite de l'orthographe des mots et cette influence était beaucoup plus forte au niveau lexical qu'au niveau grammatical. Enfin, l’étude a montré que la langue arabe était une forte source d'erreurs interférentielles, mais que son influence négative n'a pas concerné tous les types d'erreurs

Developmental Changes in Infants' Categorization of Anger and Disgust Facial Expressions

For decades, scholars have examined how children first recognize emotional facial expressions. This research has found that infants younger than 10 months can discriminate negative, within-valence facial expressions in looking time tasks, and children older than 24 months struggle to categorize these expressions in labeling and free-sort tasks. Specifically, these older children, and even adults, consistently misidentify disgust expressions as anger. Although some scholars have hypothesized that young infants would also be unable to categorize anger and disgust expressions, this question has not been empirically tested. In addition, very little research has examined developmental changes in infants' perceptual categorization abilities with high arousal, within-valence emotions. For this reason, the current study tested 10- and 18-month-olds in a looking time task and found that both age groups could perceptually categorize anger and disgust facial expressions. Furthermore, 18-month-olds showed a heightened sensitivity to novel anger expressions, suggesting that, over the second year of life, infants' emotion categorization skills undergo developmental change. These findings are the first to demonstrate that young infants can categorize anger and disgust facial expressions and to document how this skill develops and changes over time

The Effectiveness of Using Poetry in Developing English Vocabulary, Pronunciation and Motivation of EFL Palestinian Students

This study aims at investigating the effectiveness of using poetry in developing English vocabulary, pronunciation and motivation of EFL Palestinian students. The researcher adopted the quantitative method to collect the required data. The researcher used a questionnaire for both students and teachers to examine their attitudes towards using poetry in the language classroom. The participants of the study were both teachers and students from Hebron. The sample of study consisted of 73 female Tenth grade students and 214 English language teachers. One school has been chosen to form the experimental group. The analysis of the post-test revealed that the experimental group has significantly outperformed the control group in both vocabulary and pronunciation competences when they read poetry. Likewise, the results of the questionnaires showed that both teachers and students have positive attitudes towards using poetry in the language classroom as a means for teaching English language. In short, poetry has positive effect on developing the English vocabulary, pronunciation and increasing students’ motivation

The Effect of Mall Instruction on Teens' Writing Performance

This paper considers MALL as an effective instruction method to develop teens' writing performance. The results indicated participants' development of content and ideas, organization and mechanics, vocabulary, and language use. The comparison of the experimental groups (viz. Smart teens & Amazing teens) with the control groups showed a noticeable development