Muftah Lataiwish

Remarks on Terminolgy, Coining and Translating Terms

Remarks on Terminology, Coining and Translating Terms At present the Arab world is engaged in th... more Remarks on Terminology, Coining and Translating Terms
At present the Arab world is engaged in the serious movement of transferring western sciences and technology into Arabic- Arabicisation. The movement involves training the new generations of young Arab scholars in western science through the medium of Arabic, where translation plays an essential part. The most serious problem facing this type of
translation, and Arabicisation in general, is that of creating an adequate technical terminology in Arabic, which would help the young Arab scholar to express in his own language the hosts of important western ideas and objects. The paper will introduce two major points in translation regarding coining and translating terms. The process of coining a new term means using the resources of the target language (phonological, morphological and syntactic resources) to form a new word or expression in the target language to function as an equivalent to the term in the source language. New ideas and objects imported from abroad normally require new coinages and looking in the vocabulary of the target language for a term equivalent to the one in the source language.

Testing and Assessment

Students will always remember the shock of receiving their course results when they were still tw... more Students will always remember the shock of receiving their course results when they were still twelve or thirteen years old. Some knew it was not going to be high, but to come bottom of the class was very upsetting. It was all made worse by the fact that the English teacher read the names and results to the whole class, from first to last place. The humiliation was complete. Students can have very negative reactions towards tests and it is no surprise when they too may have had experiences like this. The purpose of this article is to illustrate a number of issues such as testing and assessment, test writing , and types of test questions.

An Outlook to Syllabus Design and Evaluation

The numerous approaches touched on here all offer valuable insights into creating a language prog... more The numerous approaches touched on here all offer valuable insights into creating a language program. The foundations of the product syllabuses remain fundamentally similar, whereas the underlying assumptions about language and language learning from the analytic approaches differ greatly: process type syllabuses assert that learning a language is transient and cannot be itemized ; pedagogical procedure takes precedence over content. Does the syllabus specification include all aspects

Semantic information

Language and Culture are Inseparable

In this article, I give a personal reflection of the place of "culture" in the foreign language c... more In this article, I give a personal reflection of the place of "culture" in the foreign language classroom. Re-examining the notions of integrative and instrumental motivations to language learning, I suggest that language and culture are inextricably linked, and as such we might think about moving away from questions about the inclusion or exclusion of culture in a foreign language curriculum, to issues of deliberate immersion versus non-deliberate exposure to it.

Language Testing

Testing grammatical structure

creatging a placement test

Many educators around the world find themselves in growing schools or programs with more and more... more Many educators around the world find themselves in growing schools or programs with more and more students needing placement into appropriate classes. Many schools use tests that are intended for other purposes--e.g., the Secondary Level English Proficienc y (SLEP) Test, the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), or the Michigan. However, these can be inaccurate for placing students in classes. Some schools have no placement procedures, and students are assigned to classes haphazardly.

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