The objective of the paper is to map the challenges associated with developing inclusive curriculum for gifted students in the UAE and provide practical suggestions in order to develop an effective and inclusive curriculum that addresses the specific needs of gifted students within mainstream educational environments. Several questions were explored and multiple approaches were highlighted in an attempt to provide analytical, conceptual and empirical dimensions to the mapping effort of current challenges and future prospects of gifted education curriculum design and development. The outcome of the exploratory endeavor of the paper yields key conclusions and practical recommendations in four categories as the following: (1) policy consideration for gifted education; (2) licensure and qualifications for gifted education practitioners; (3) curriculum innovation, inclusion and cultural considerations; and, (4) gifted education and psychological science. In conclusion, active advocacy for giftedness and gifted education is necessary for the advancement of giftedness education and research.
This research investigates engineering students' perceptions of flipped learning at American University of Sharjah (AUS). Two undergraduate and three graduate engineering classes were involved in this study. A mixed method design is utilized involving the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data. The Revised Community of Inquiry framework (RCOI) was adopted to assess students' perceptions of their learning experience. Further, open-ended questions were adopted to get additional insight into the students' perceptions. In this paper, a discussion of the preliminary data analysis of how the students perceive the flipped learning environment will be shared.
The main concern of this paper is to examine the notion of conjunction in both Arabic and English. It also seeks to assess the accuracy of the translations of the selected conjunctive waw al-est'enaf offered by two of translators of the glorious Quran; M. M. Pickthall and Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali. Surat Ya-seen has been chosen for the assessment. The adequacy of the translations of this conjunctive under investigation will be assessed in terms of its interpretation by Ibn-Ashour. The study concludes that translating the resumptive wa (waw al-este'naf) in the Quranic text is not quite easy because of the inability of some translators to recognize the functions of conjunction wa, their tendency to translate the conjunction wa out of context, or their inattentiveness to most of the linguistic and exegetical works pertinent to conjunction wa.
This study investigates the errors committed in translating public signs. The major bulk of the study is based on a corpus of around 300 public signs collected from road signs, shop signs, advertisement brochures, and shopping receipts. It aims at identifying, analyzing, and remedying the errors found in the translation of public signs. The study analyses the types of errors present in public signs and categorizes them according to three groups: lexical, grammatical, and orthographic errors. The study then suggests possible translations and solution strategies to translate them. The study found that public signs constituted an immense source of faulty translations that reflected the translators' incompetence in the field of translation and language studies. Most of the errors identified in the study related to the translators' lack of knowledge of the source and target language in terms of lexis, syntax, and structure. Finally, the study suggested possible remedies and solutions to prevent these errors from reoccurring in the future. Furthermore, the study suggested that further research is needed in order to identify other types of translation errors in public signs and highlighted the dire need to implement a code of conduct and ethics for the translation of public signs in the middle East.
This paper aims to conduct a comparative examination of two Arabic translations of one of Steinbeck's masterpieces The Pearl by Mahmoud Hosni (2017) and Mostafa Ali (2010). The comparative study intends to compare and contrast the two Arabic translations as it seeks to identify the culture-specific items based on Newmark's (1988) categorization, viz., ecology, material culture, social culture, organizations, customs, ideas, gestures, and habits, in addition to their translations in each version. Moreover, exploring the translation strategies adopted by each translator in rendering CSIs in The Pearl, based on Newmark's (1988) taxonomy of strategies, i.e. transference, naturalization, cultural equivalent, functional equivalent, descriptive equivalent, componential analysis, synonymy, through-translation, shifts or transpositions. Determining whether each translation applied one of Venuti's (1995) taxonomy of strategies, i.e. foreignization or domestication, according to the translation strategy used to find out which one is more domesticated; i.e. TL-oriented and which is more foreignized; SL-oriented.
Ever since Translation and Interpreting were recognized as standing professions, Linguists have always paid close attention to technological advancement in order to explore opportunities for improving such rapidly changing and volatile field. Not only were translation subject-matter experts keen on coping with technological progression, rather their interest has grown over the years to seek innovative approaches to utilize technology for translation purposes. Fierce debates have sparked between Pro-Automation advocates and anti-tech Traditionalist's mindset of translators, the latter arguing against the poor quality translation produced by such systems that rely solely on Artificial Intelligence. It soon became obvious that, instead of elimination, there needs to be a balance between humans and machines in the translation process, in order to optimize performance. Whereas technology-aided tools enhance translators' efficiency, the human element proved to be fundamentally crucial and, somewhat, indispensable in all translation or interpreting related activities.
This paper presents an extract of the literature review, research agenda and initial conceptual framework for a doctoral thesis investigating how directors of multinational corporations (MNCs) engage with corporate purpose.In a twenty first century bedevilled by grand challenges,corporate purpose as the corporate contribution to humanity, next to shareholder value maximisation is being questioned. The thesis posits that if beneficial changes to the governance of MNCs are among the greatest challenges faced by humanity and MNCs are to deliver a positive contribution to society, then it is of critical importance to understand how directors who are members of corporate boards engage with purpose at MNC parent and subsidiary level, as governance operates at multiple levels and purpose can be the glue that binds together corporate policies and actions, ultimately adding or destroying value for society.
People who are talented and skilled are completely different from those who are not in terms of performance, thinking, planning, and ability to change. On the other hand, it could be said that nurses staff are considered the backbone in any clinical or health facility whether public or private. So, health and medical hospitals con not do absolutely without nurses. They perform a very important role in to serve different type of patients. It should be indicated here some societies need more awareness and deep understanding concerning the importance of nurse career on the one hand, and the governments have to know how to empower and enhance graduates for applying for such human career by reconsidering those challenges and obstacles that may be causes to reject this career.
The main purpose of the study was to find out the effect of sports activity on working employees in UAE. The healthier and active the person has more work performance in the organization. The research shows that employees who are involved in sports activities have positive energy, mental toughness, disciplined and had less visits to doctors. Quantitative survey method was adopted and total of 117 responses were filtered with target audience as Dubai working employees. SPSS analysis software was used to interpret the data. The results revealed that the sport and work performance were not limited to either to gender nor to role of employee. It was also discovered that the organizations across Dubai provided limited environment for such activities.
This research aims to investigate the influence of Person-Organization (P-O) fit on the outcomes of the company through the study of supplementary and complementary perspectives on employee performance, satisfaction, commitment and turnover. In addition, the study seeks to provide the conceptual framework in order to bridge literature gap and to analyze the relationship between personal and organizational values based on Attraction-Selection- Attrition (ASA) framework and Job Stress (JS) theory as moderators. For accurate results, it is suggested to collect data using mixed methods to answer key research questions and achieve research objectives. The qualitative approach will use to identify values and selection process. However, the quantitative method will support the hypotheses to test the variables and outcomes. The research expects the best integration of value within work environment for the sustainable outcome.
