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Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
Background: Mobile e-books together with Blackboard LMS and Elluminate were integrated and used as extensive reading activities, i.e., as a supplement to in-class reading instruction. The aim of the activity was to develop EFL struggling freshman student readers enhance their reading skills through short, simplified e-books. Materials and Methods:…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Electronic Publishing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
Introduction: Many ESL college students have reading comprehension problems in English, such as difficulty understanding ideas explicitly or implicitly stated in a text, making inferences, and inferring meanings of difficult words from context. Aims: The article proposes the integration of inspirational quotes in the teaching of English to EFL…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2019
An asynchronous online discussion forum was created and used to post Arabization homework-assignments consisting of application questions and discussion threads covering the topics taught in class. The instructor gave communicative feedback on the location and types of errors. Errors were color-coded. No correct answers were provided. The…
Descriptors: Translation, Semitic Languages, Language Processing, Homework
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2010
The present study investigated the effectiveness of integrating RCampus in EFL freshman classrooms on EFL students' reading and writing skills development. Forty-three freshman students majoring in translation participated in the study. Before instruction, the students were pretested. Then they received traditional in-class instruction that…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2007
I created a newsgroup with Yahoo Groups and invited all male and female colleagues at the College of Languages and Translation to register. The aims of the newsgroup were to share college news, discuss academic issues and student and faculty problems, learn about each other's publications and academic activities. Although messages were sent to the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Dialogs (Language)
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2006
In 2004, a Saudi student at the College of Engineering, King Saud University (KSU) designed and launched an informal students' forum that aimed at communicating students' voices to university professors and administrators. Students could register for free, post academic and career problems and suggestions, and participate in the discussion. Soon…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, College Faculty