Understanding breaking news necessitates a special attention, since they are written with a special style. The study aims at identifying the difficulties faced by the Iraqi university EFL learners in comprehending English breaking news. The study included 10 fourth year students enrolled at the Department of English, College of Education for Humanities, University of Anbar. Thus, a questionnaire as a research instrument, was sent online to the students. The questionnaire points were related to the identification of difficulties faced by the learners in comprehending English breaking news. The data of the study were (10) headlines selected purposively from Euronews website. The data were qualitatively analyzed based on quantifying the quality procedure. The findings showed that (54%) of the total number of the students stated that the headlines are difficult to understand, and (46%) considered them easy. Based on these findings, the study has concluded that students faced four main difficulties: neologism, difficult vocabulary, ellipsis, and passive voice when reading news headlines. Neologism has scored the highest percentage (32.4324%), while passive voice has been the lowest (5.4054%).
The codification of the social history of the city of Baghdad will be filled with an inherited folklore that has been descended to it from the previous generations with all its tales of folk tales, metaphors, parables, crafts and industries. Immortal
The study consisted of an introduction، two chapters and a conclusion
The first، tagged topic (: His lineage، birth، and family)، traces the lineage، birth، and family of Abd al-Ilah Hafez.
The second topic، which came under the title (The Role of Abd al-Ilah Hafez in the printing of currency)، was concerned.
The study relied on a large number of unpublished documents، foremost of which are the documents of the Central Bank of Iraq. It contained a lot of information about its administrative activity، its positions، orders and plans in this direction.
The House of Books and Documents is considered Al-Manhal، which is indispensable for any research to study the royal his
... Show MoreThe codification of the social history of the city of Baghdad will be filled with an inherited folklore and folklore that has been descended to it from the previous generations with all its tales of folk tales, metaphors, parables, crafts and industries. Immortal
الدولة الفاطمية التي قامت في بلاد المغرب الأدنى وتوسعت إلى المشرق وحتى إلى جنوب أوربا في الأندلس إي إسبانيا والبرتغال وجزر البحر المتوسط وأصبحت دولة مترامية الأطراف بفضل الجهد الذي قام به الخلفاء الفاطميين من نشر مذهب أهل البيت العلوي . مما حدا بتلك الدولة أن تصبح في أقل من قرن واحد إمبراطورية كبيرة امتدت جذورها إلى أطراف من ممتلكات الخلافة العباسية القائمة في الشرق الإسلامي ، وكان ذلك الانتشار الكبير ناتج م
... Show MoreThe study consisted of an introduction، two chapters and a conclusion
The first، tagged topic (: His lineage، birth، and family)، traces the lineage، birth، and family of Abd al-Ilah Hafez.
The second topic، which came under the title (The Role of Abd al-Ilah Hafez in the printing of currency)، was concerned.
The study relied on a large number of unpublished documents، foremost of which are the documents of the Central Bank of Iraq. It contained a lot of information about its administrative activity، its positions، orders and plans in this direction.
The House of Books and Documents is considered Al-Manhal، which is indispensable for any research to study the royal his
... Show MoreThe objective of this study is to evaluate the level of cytokines IL-1?, IL-10 and IL-17A in the serum of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), vascular dementia (VD) and down syndrome (DS). The results showed that Serum level of IL-1? was significantly increased in AD patients (3.79 ± 0.26 pg/ml) as compared with DS patients (2.78 ± 0.39 pg/ml) or controls (2.78 ± 0.22 pg/ml), while no significant difference was observed between AD and VD (3.25 ± 0.20 pg/ml) patients or between VD patients, DS patients and controls. The serum level of IL-10 was approximated in VD and DS patients and controls (3.39 ± 0.24, 2.77 ± 0.39 and 3.41 ± 0.35 pg/ml, respectively), but was significantly (P ? 0.05) increased in AD patients (5.73 ± 0.55 pg/ml
... Show MoreBackground: The problem of difficult gallbladder is not clearly defined and associated with real missing of therapeutic approaches that decreased morbidity. Moreover, the difficult gallbladder was reported as a contributing risk factor for biliary injury due to raised difficulty in surgical dissection within Calot’s triangle. The aim of this study is to determine the surgical outcomes of the open fundus-first cholecystectomy in lowering the rate of lethal intraoperative risks.
Subjects and Methods: Our prospective study conducted during the period of January 2019 to December 2022 at Ibn Sina specialized hospital, Khartoum, Sudan, for two hundred and fifty-three patients underw
... Show MoreThis paper deals with one of the most important issues in a foreign language teaching and learning, i.e. speaking test assessment. After giving a survey of literature written on the meaning and definition of a speaking test assessment, two sections have been devoted to tackle the most important issues in this topic. Section one, which is the theoretical part of this paper, sheds light on the basic definitions of the term ‘speaking assessment’ which are, according to the researcher’s point of view, sufficient to cover the area of the study. This section based on applied linguistic theories and researches in order to enhance our understanding of the what is meant by «a speaking test assessment«In addition,it explains the most importan
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