Rationing of Raven's Matrices Scale for Emotional Intelligence to Students

The purpose of this study is to modify "Raven's Matrices" scale of emotional intelligence to the students of Al al-Bayt University in Jordan, as this scale has some features such as the deliverance of the influence of culture and language. The scale was applied to a sample of (526) students at Al al-Bayt University in Al Mafraq. To researcher used statistical analysis to answer the questions of the study in order to check the effectiveness of the items of the scale through the extraction of difficulty and differentiation factors of the different levels of the general point average and total sample. The researcher extracted the reliability using Kr20  equation to calculate the internal consistency between the items, the validity of the scale also was measured using formative validity through differentiation rates by tracking the increase in the means and standard deviations of the thirteen  categories of the  general point average (GPA ). The results of the study showed the effectiveness of the scale paragraphs has been proven  in terms of difficulty and differentiation coefficients, and Raven's Matrices scale has got high psychometric characteristics (reliability, validity) In a sign that the scale is suitable for application with a university education students in Jordan. Key words: Raven's Matrices scale, emotional intelligenc

Analyzing Action Pack Textbooks' Questions according to Revised Bloom Taxonomy

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the questions in Action Pack English textbooks based on Bloom’s taxonomy for 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th grades and to determine the frequencies and percentages of the questions in the six levels of the cognitive domain. The study consisted of two samples: English language instructors and English text books "Action Back" series. First: The sample of experts, the population of this study consisted of 20 instructors of 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th Grade students in public schools in Amman, Jordan and 10 supervisors of English language in addition to 10 instructors of EFL in Jordanian universities. Second: the sample of English text books "Action Pack series, the population of this study consisted of the questions included in the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th grade English textbooks "Action Pack series. The results showed that the distribution of questions on the knowledge level was nearly the same in 7th, 8th, and 9th grades while on the 10th grade it was higher. The distribution of questions also was better in 10th grade for the application and synthesis levels. The results also showed that 8th, 9th and 10th grades got nearly the same distribution of questions on the knowledge level of Bloom Taxonomy, while the 7th grade got the highest percentage when it was 14.2%. Keywords: Revised Bloom Taxonomy, Questions, Action Pack Serie

Studying competitive sorption behavior of methylene blue and malachite green using multivariate calibration

Sorption of methylene blue MB and malachite green MG (with 96.4% spectral overlap) from bi-solute solution by natural kaolinitic-clay and philipsite-rich-zeolite tuff was addressed where solutes simply quantified using multivariate calibration MVC. For simultaneous quantification of dyes in solution, partial least squares PLS1 (a powerful MVC tool) was found satisfactory with high recovery (98.7–103.2%) and precision (RSD 9.2–11.7%). In MVC, the spectral range 409–700 nm is used and 43 spectral points where taken for each sample. Natural clay (80% kaolinite) and zeolite tuff (95% philipsite) showed a high uptake for dyes with maximum capacities of 0.77 mmol MB/gclay and 0.64 mmol MG/gclay, 0.66 mmol MB/gzeolite and 1.22 mmol MG/gzeolite reported at 1.0 g/L, particle diameter <45 μm, 20.0 °C and pH 7.0. Due to competition between dyes for active sites, the sorption capacities were reduced and the highest reduction was 30% which observed for MG sorption by clay. The competition between dyes was higher in clay as indicated from competition factors CFs. Sorption isotherms of bi-solute systems have irregular L2 isotherm shape and the data were fairly correlated to Langmuir and competitive Langmuir models. The contribution of ion-exchange mechanism in dyes removal was found significant, 61% and 79% of MB were removed via ion-exchange by clay and zeolite, respectively. Using MVC, studying competitive sorption of MB and MG without the need for chromatographic separation is accomplished. Studying competitive sorption of more than two solutes using PLS1 is also possible indicating the high resolution power of this technique.Hashemite University (Zarqa, Jordan)Scopu

The impact of COVID-19 and its terminology learning strategies on EFL learners’ vocabulary repertoire

COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented crisis worldwide posing many linguistic challenges including understanding and learning new related terminology. This study explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its terminology learning strategies on EFL learners' vocabulary acquisition, particularly in Jordan. A triangulated approach was employed for collecting data including interviews, tests and a questionnaire distributed to 100 EFL learners at a Jordanian university. The qualitative and quantitative analysis of the data showed a positive influence of the COVID-19 pandemic and its terminology strategies on EFL learners' knowledge of vocabulary. It also revealed that the participants were “medium” users of cognitive, determination, and social strategies and “high” users of metacognitive and memory vocabulary learning strategies for acquiring COVID-19 associated terminology. The analysis of the tests demonstrated that the COVID-19 and its Vocabulary Language Strategies (VLSs) have a significant positive impact on students' vocabulary knowledge size. Thus, it verified the effectiveness of the reported strategies for acquiring COVID-19 terminology. The learners' vocabulary repertoire has been enriched with new COVID-19 related vocabulary such as quarantine, lockdown, incubation, pandemic, contagious, outbreak, epidemic, pathology, infectious, asymptomatic, covidiot, pneumonia, anorexia, etc. The findings highlighted the importance of employing efficient strategies for investing newly emerging contexts to cultivate learners’ vocabulary repertoire. This study contributes to the area of language acquisition through extensive illustrations of COVID-19 associated lexicon and the intensified-in use associated vocabulary learning strategies. The study concludes with some pedagogical implications and recommendations for further research

Normativity and Variation in the Address Terms System Practiced among the Jordanian Youth Community

This study investigates the key forms of address used amongst Jordanian university students, the impact of gender on using these forms and what accounts for the variation in their address system. By addressing the issue of normativity and heterogeneity in the use of address terms, in different social settings, the study enriches the understanding of the internal variation of the address term system. Data collected through questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were analysed, based on Watts&rsquo; discursive approach to politeness and Agha&rsquo;s approach of indexicality. The results revealed that the identified normative patterns represent Jordanian university politic behaviours, which index different social meanings and relations among the youth community, in relation to specific social contexts. The most frequent strategies university students use for addressing others are personal names, innovative terms, descriptive phrases, pronouns, titles, teknonyms, and religious, military, attention attractors, as well as a combination of these terms. It also seems that there are no absolute stable patterns of address term usage among the youth community, speaking Jordanian Arabic. Rather, there is an infinite society-internal heterogeneity in the address terms usage. The results also revealed that an intra-group variation signifies social struggles over the norms of address term usage and potentially normative incertitude