This paper aimed at specifying the leading obstacles which faced by Iraqi EFL secondary school teachers in teaching English language. According to studies and observations, lack of adequate materials, overcrowding classrooms, lack of infrastructures, and low job satisfaction are the main barriers to English language teaching in Iraq. Data were collected from 130 EFL teachers from Iraqi schools through a standard questionnaire. The data were analyzed using a descriptive statistic to summarize and present it in a meaningful way. The findings supported previous studies regarding the classroom overcrowding, lack of teaching aids and materials, and dilapidated facilities. Furthermore, regarding job dissatisfaction and salary, interesting and eye

The current research aims to evaluate the appraisal form for Arabic language teachers in light of comprehensive quality standards by designing standards for the competencies of primary school teacher in accordance with comprehensive quality requirements. The researcher adopted the descriptive approach. The research community included the Arabic language supervisors in the Education Directorates of Diyala Provincial and Baghdad. The research sample consisted of (14) supervisors from the Diyala Provincial Department of Education and the First Rusafa Education Directorate in Baghdad Governorate by (8) supervisors and (6) Supervisors respectively specializing in Arabic language. As for the research tool, questionnaire prepared by the researc

 Data Driven Requirement Engineering (DDRE) represents a vision for a shift from the static traditional methods of doing requirements engineering to dynamic data-driven user-centered methods. Data available and the increasingly complex requirements of system software whose functions can adapt to changing needs to gain the trust of its users, an approach is needed in a continuous software engineering process. This need drives the emergence of new challenges in the discipline of requirements engineering to meet the required changes. The problem in this study was the method in data discrepancies which resulted in the needs elicitation process being hampered and in the end software development found discrepancies and could not meet the need

Songs are considered as an educational and a substantial dependable references used in teaching and learning, particularly the so - called foreign language learning that allows learners to adapt to the target language culture and to develop their language learning skills including: listening comprehension, reading comprehension, speaking and writing. Consequently, it can be said that the Francophone songs with the musical richness and resonance specifically facilities French language learning skills  for all levels of education and achieve short and long terms predetermined educational language learning goals.  

     In fact, language learning through songs method does not only include the

Language ecology is the interactions between the environment and language. Such a discipline, ‘language ecology’ or ‘ecolinguistics has been founded by Einar Haugen’. Accordingly,  the study aims at qualitatively reviewing the theoretical and conceptual issues surrounding the subject of language ecology  by tracing the roots of language ecology. It further highlights the fundamental inconsistencies between how the concept of ecology is perceived in sociology and biology, and is applied to language, particularly, transposing the main central concepts of bio-ecology, such as relationship/interaction, environment, and organism to human language and theory of ecological-linguistic. The theory wavers among placing the focus

This study aims to discuss how English Language Textbook (ELT), used in Iraqi schools, can be developed. All Iraqi teachers in Iraq spend much time using ELT textbooks in classrooms, and most of the Iraqi students depend on these textbooks to learn and improve the English language, so choosing an appropriate ELT textbook is so essential. A suitable book must include critical components that fit teachers' and students' needs. The quality of ELT textbooks has been improved dramatically in recent years, even though these textbooks still do not meet students' needs, especially in language communication skills. This study seeks to investigate the most critical components that may make the ELT textbooks are more influential and interactive for Ir

This research tackles the semantic function of colors in the poetry of Gada Al Samman, in the introduction the research explores the difference in the semantic colors for people and the function of these colors in arising the feelings for the human spirit and its influence on that spirit. The research tackles the poems of this poetess that are full of symbolic colors that convey positive and negative meanings related to the poetess herself. In addition the research shows the functions of colors in her poetry through the compatibility of colors by employing colors in her poetry in terms of compatibility with the vision of community to denote colors. Beside using the function of colors contrast by employing the colors in different meaning

wealth which has, as well as the factors which entered the national consciousness of thousands of the continent 2. has not been possible to continue the national resistance in Namibia means spontaneous first and in light of the factors of national awareness of the new has taken sweeping the continent during the interwar period in the thirties and forties of the last century, marked by the return of a lot of educated Africans who have received their education in the countries of Western Europe, where traders who looktoa life of freedomenjoyed bythe people ofWaldo.. As well as awareness of labor represented by the working class and the work of strikes and mass anti-exploitation, which was subjected to factor in the region in wages and lack

The role of kindergarten in the development of moral values of children" The child moral education in institutions of basic education considered as the priority of values and social goals of methodical education , and consideringto how the child be in the kindergarten of susceptibility to absorb and configuration and modification of experiences, thus the kindergartens are important because of their influence in the formation of his character through reincarnation of the personality of those who manage education and try to imitate their values and attitudes and standards of right and wrong. This is also happen through his exercise of educational activities until he has moral insight which enables him to distinguish between good and evil b