The paper attempts to find out the elements of picaresque novel in selected English and Iraqi novels. It studies these elements in Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews and Adil Abduljabbar’s Arzal Hamad Al-Salim. The paper is divided into four sections. The first is an introduction to the picaresque novel. It gives a definition, a historical background, and the elements of the genre. The second section studies Fielding’s novel focusing on the elements of this type of novel and how it affects the story itself. The paper follows the novel from the beginning to the end showing these elements. The third is dedicated to Abduljabbar’s novel and how the elements of picaresque genre appear in the novel and play an important role in its development of action, themes, and characterization. The fourth is the conclusion that sums up the findings of the paper and shows a comparative approach for the two novels.
زاد اهتمام الباحثين في السنوات الاخيرة بنماذج الانحدار شبه المعلمية وذلك اذ يمكن من خلالها دمج نماذج الانحدار اللامعلمي والمعلمي في ان واحد ومن ثم تكوين انموذج انحدار يتميز بامكانية التعامل مع مشكلة تعدد الابعاد الموجودة في النماذج اللامعلمية والتي تحصل عند زيادة عدد المتغيرات التوضيحية الداخلة في التحليل و من ثم تناقص دقة التقدير. فضلا عن امتياز هذا النوع من النماذج بمرونة في المجال التطبيقي مقارنةً
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This research examines the phonological adaptation of pure vowels in English loanwords in Iraqi Arabic (IA). Unlike previous small-scale studies, the present study collected 346 loanwords through document review and self-observation, and then analyzed them using quantitative content analysis to identify the patterns of pure vowel adaptation involved in incorporating English loanwords into IA. The content analysis findings showed that most pure vowel adaptations in English loanwords in IA follow systematic patterns and may thus be attributed to specific characteristics of both L1 and L2 phonological systems. Specifically, the findings suggest that the IA output forms typically preserve the features of the input pure vowel to the maxi
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Learning a foreign language is a highly interactive process, and a belief that communicative activities foster a great amount of linguistic production provides language practice and opportunities for negotiation of meaning during communicative exchanges. Thus, this study examines what benefits learner-centered classroom setting offers compared with that of teacher–centered classroom, and how less proficient learners accomplish their tasks and activities with scaffolded help during interaction with the help of proficient classmates and under the guidance of a skilful person, i.e., the teacher. The subjects participating in this study are 30 Iraqi 4th year college students in the Department of English, College of Arts , Univer
... Show MoreMetadiscourse markers are means for organizing a writer’s information and create a connection with her/his readers. When students write, they usually focus on one type of these markers that is the interactive markers and belittling the use of the other type which is the interactional markers. That is to say, they emphasize on presenting and organizing their information only. Therefore, this study is conducted to bridge this gap. The researchers have selected 18 thesis abstracts. Nine of them are written by Iraqi students of English and the rest by American students. The aims of the study are to examine the types and sub-types of metadiscourse markers used by American and Iraqi students; investigate comparatively the impact of the metad
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ان دراسة مستقبل النظام الدولي حاليا يبدو انه وفق المعطيات العلمية والوقائع القائمة في ظل بروز الفواعل الدولية من غير الدول، والمؤسسات غير الرسمية الدولية انه يتجه لنظام اللاقطبية وهذا الاتجاه تغذيه متغيرات عديدة لتقليص القطبية، ومن المتوقع مستقبلاً ان تحول النظام الدولي الى اللاقطبية.
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المرابحة المصرفية من أكثر الأدوات الاستثمارية والتمويلية انتشاراً عند الناس ولدى المصارف الاسلامية في تعاملاتها الاستثمارية، فقد أكدت بعض الدراسات الميدانية والاستقراء في تعاملات البنوك الاسلامية أن المرابحة المصرفية زحزحت الأدوات والصيغ التمويلية الأخرى كالمضاربة والمشاركة وغيرهما عن مواقعها وريادتها في تغطية حاجات العملاء ورغباتهم الاستهلا
... Show MoreThis research aims at studying a contemporary and modern phenomenon in the Science of management in general and in the field of organizational behavior in private, The organizational learning and managerial empowerment in a governmental organization :"The General Company of Electric Industries" .The dimensions of organizational learning have been defined (Learning Dynamics، organization transformation, individuals empowerment, knowledge management and Technology application) as wells as the dimensions of managerial empowerment (possessing the information and its availability– Independency and the freedom of conduct and knowledge possession) Information has been gathered by a questionnaire distributed on a sample of professiona
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We used to think of grammar as the bones of the language and vocabulary as the flesh to be added given that language consisted largely of life generated chunks of lexis. This “skeleton image” has been proverbially used to refer to that central feature of lexis named collocation- an idea that for the first 15 years of language study and analysis gave a moment‟s thought to English classroom material and methodology.
The work of John Sinclair, Dave Willis, Ron Carter, Michael McCarthy, Michael Lewis, and many others have all contributed to the way teachers today approach the area of lexis and what it means in the teaching/learning process of the language. This also seems to have incorporated lexical ideas into the teaching mechanis