This research aims to identify the reality of teaching political science research methods curriculum, to observe practices, and differences in teaching and learning between the Arab and Western universities. Moreover, it focuses on the difficulties that face students' acquisition of the course skills. The research uses the course model of some Western and Arab universities as case study.

This research shows that the curriculum do not reach yet the final form as other political science curriculums, and its upcoming changes will reflect the needs of stakeholders. The best method to teach this curriculum is to use applied learning in groups, learning by doing, and finally problem-based learning approach. Using optimal assessment deep

An idiom is a group of words whose meaning put together is different from the meaning of
individual words. English is a rich language when it comes to idioms, they represent variety. For
foreign learners, idioms are problematic because even if they know the meaning of individual
words that compose an idiom the meaning of it might be something completely different.
The present study investigates Iraqi third year college students’ recognition of idioms. To
achieve this, the researchers have conducted a test which comprises three questions. Certain
conclusions are reached here along with some suggestions and recommendations.

Lexicography, the art and craft of dictionary-making, is as old as writing. Since its very early stages several thousands of years ago, it has helped to serve basically the every-day needs of written communication among individuals in communities speaking different languages or different varieties of the same language. Two general approaches are distinguished in the craft of dictionary-making: the semasiological and the onomasiological. The former is represented by usually-alphabetical dictionaries as such, i.e. their being inventories of the lexicon, while the latter is manifested in thesauruses. English and Arabic have made use of both approaches in the preparation of their dictionaries, each having a distinct aim ahead. Wit

The Sound of the letter (ق) in the Contemporary Arabic Dialects

The present study aims at analyzing the polysemy of the English preposition in from the cognitive linguistic (CL) point of view using Evans' and Tyler's approach (2003). The perplexity faced by Iraqi second language learners (L2) due to the multi-usages of this preposition has motivated the researcher to conduct this study. Seventy-six second year university students participated in this experimental study. The data of the pre-test and post-test were analyzed by SPSS statistical editor. The results have shown the following: First, a progress of more than (0.05≤) has been detected as far as students' understanding of the multiple usages of the preposition in is concerned. Second, the results of the questionnaire have s

  The paper deals with the marked vocabulary of Russian and Arabic language, and the extrapolated to the phraseological layer of the mentioned language systems. Specificity of the functioning of this process is presented against the backdrop of the peculiarities of the existence of Russian and Arabic languages. Attention is focused on the fact that linguistic markers should be considered as a kind of keys that represent the specificity of the experience of being experienced by an individual in ontological reality. It is asserted that marking can be revealed practically at all levels of the language polysystem, but it is especially productive on its lexical layer, in particular, on the basis of lexicology and ph

Bekanntlich hat jede Sprache ihre eigenen charakteristischen Besonderheiten. Davon ausgehend gibt es auch gewisse Unterschiede zwischen dem Arabischen und dem Deutschen. Zu den wichtigsten Gebieten der deutschen Grammatik gehören die zusammengesetzten Sätze, vor allem Satzgefüge mit den über- und untergeordneten Sätzen. Dazu gehören auch die Äquivalente der Nebensätze, besonders die Infinitiv- und Partizipialkonstruktionen.

Die vorliegende Recherche hat eine der grammatischen Strukturen des Arabischen und des Deutschen nämlich die dass-Sätze und Infintivsätze mit zu und deren Wiedergabemöglichkeiten in den beiden Sprachen zum Inhalt, weil die Infinitivsätze mit zu den Deutschlernenden beson

Одной из трудностей, вызывающих искажение смысла предложения, при переводе и понимании любых текстов зачастую является неправильное понимание функций и значений: союзов и союзных слов или замена одного значения другим. Это объясняется прежде всего тем, что при чтении основное внимание сосредоточено на переводе главных частей речи, на их многофункциональности и многозначности и упускаются из вида втор