Saudi Cultural Missions Theses & Dissertations
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Item Restricted An Investigation into Teachers’ Cognition: Saudi English Teachers’ Instructional Practices in the use of Code Switching.(The University of Hull, 2023-06-14) Abdulhafiz, Shahinaz Saleh; Hunter, DuncanResearch on teacher cognition and language instruction has recently attracted attention among researchers in the field of language teaching. Educational research has also revealed that the study of teacher cognition about all aspects of their work can help in understanding what they hold in their minds and how it contributed to their classroom practices. This study examined the origin of twelve English teachers’ cognition and understand how their mental perspectives are displayed through their instructional performances in classrooms regarding the practice of code switching in language teaching, particularly in the context of Saudi Arabia, where Arabic is its main language. The necessity of carrying out such a study is to contribute to finding out some significant aspects of teachers prior learning experiences that appear to be powerful in forming their cognitions and understand how these mental constructs underpin their instructional performances regarding the practice of code switching. Moreover, the study seeks to determine the role of contextual factors that might impact teachers’ instructional practices so as to improve and facilitate the teaching process. Qualitative data was collected using autobiographies and semi-structured interviews. The findings of the study showed that teachers perceived code switching strategies to be necessary as they shared similar prior educational experiences. Their focal concern of cognition regarding the practice of code switching, though it seemed to be against the policy on language teaching and some of participants’ perspectives, was to facilitate the teaching process due to the domination of the Grammar Translation Method in language teaching. The findings also revealed that teachers’ ongoing actual practices are significant as they are influenced by contextual factors imposed by institutional policies which appeared to be obstacles to the fulfilment of their tasks.2 0Item Restricted Attitudes toward Arabic-English Code Switching in Saudi Society(Saudi Digital Library, 2023-11-16) Aldosari, Tareq; Dyer, DonaldThis study is designed to explore the attitudes of Saudi students at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University toward code switching between colloquial Arabic and English and toward borrowing from the English language in Saudi society, considering two significant variables: major studied and gender. The study utilized two tools: a) questionnaires that the participants fill out after listening to recordings demonstrating code switching, borrowing and Arabic-only and b) interviews that were conducted to explore further the participants’ attitudes and the reasons behind them. Both tools considered three dimensions: superiority, attractiveness, and dynamism of the speakers. One hundred twenty questionnaires were distributed to the participants who were divided into four groups based on their majors (English language, Arabic language, Islamic Studies, and Business Management), 30 for each group to compare the four groups’ attitudes. Then, the participants were divided into two groups, sixty male and sixty female participants, to analyze the gender differences. The quantitative data were analyzed using SPSS and two-way ANOVA. Twenty-four participants were interviewed: six participants for each major group, three female and three male interviewees. A thematic presentation approach was used to discuss the qualitative outcomes of the interviews. In general, the English language and management groups rated the code switching speakers higher than the other speakers. However, most groups feel that the code-switching speaker is superior to the other speakers. The qualitative result shows that the quality of education and the comfortable social class are the reason for their feelings of the code switchers’ superiority. The interviews show that national identity is behind the negative attitudes of the Arabic language and Islamic studies group toward the attractiveness and the dynamism of the code-switching speaker. Although the rate of the borrowing speaker varied between the four groups, the interviews show borrowing is a normal linguistic phenomenon in their society. The quantitative data show no significant differences between the two genders, while the interviews also revealed a difference in how each gender group expresses their attitude.67 0