PHD theses : Arts

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    Ecology and population structure of Anopheles ar abiensis in sudan(volumel)
    (AlNEElAN UNVERSLTY, 2003) Mariam Atta Mannan Ahmed
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    SIMULTANEOUS SPEECH IN SINGLE AND MIXED SEX CONVERSATION GROUPS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SUDANESE URBAN SOCIETY
    (Neelain University, 2009) Safaa Mohammed Siddig
    Abstract SIMULTANEOUS SPEECH IN SINGLE AND MIXED SEX CONVERSATION GROUPS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SUDANESE URBAN SOCIETY The purpose of this study is to explore gender similarities/ differences in males’ and females’ conversational behavior with special reference to the Sudanese urban society. It also tests the suitability of the generalizations proposed by research in Western societies to decide whether they have genuine applicability to our Sudanese culture. Sixty Sudanese males and females participated in the study which was carried out in Greater Khartoum. In order to establish the way in which males and females take the floor, recordings of naturally occurring conversations were done. Analysis of the data shows significant findings: 1) Participants used both cooperative and intrusive interruptions in their conversation. 2) There is a tendency for men to interrupt more often in mixed gender than in same gender interactions. 3) The distribution of the interruptions was not equally divided between speakers contrary to what has been claimed in Western culture. 4) The study refutes the claim that men use raised voiced to maintain control of the conversational floor.
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    Analysis of Verb Tense Errors in the Written English of Gaza Secondary School Students
    (Neelain University, 2006) Nurtan H.T. El-Khateeb
    Abstract Analysis of Verb Tense Errors in the Written English of Gaza Secondary School Students This study aims at analyzing the common English verb tense errors of secondary school students in Gaza City . The Study is confined to the common errors of the three tenses (present — past ~ future ) . For this purpose , the study was conducted on a random sample which consisted of 100 males and 100 females from general Secondary School Certificate , i.e. (the twelfth grade in Gaza City of the academic year 1999- 2000 ) , the schools are : 1- Shohodaa El-Shatti Secondary School for Boys . 2- Ahmed Shawky‘Secondary School for Girls . The researcher has designed a test which was writing two compositions which are : 1- What did you do during last summer holidays ? 2- The importance of leaming English . These topics were designed to test the abi1ity~0f the student toexpress about his/her ideas in the (present — past — future) simple tense . The test was shown to a group of judges to determine the suitability of the topics . This group consisted of two professors of English in Palestinian universities ,four well - experienced secondary school teachers and two well — experienced secondary school inspectors . They all admitted the test . The researcher , also , conducted an interview with a group of English Language teachers in Gaza with the purpose of knowing the causes of the students’ weakness in English Language and the problems which the teachers encounter in teaching English . The researcher followed the analytical and statistical techniques in eliciting the results of the research . After checking the examination sheets of the male and female students , the researcher classified students errors into eight types which are : ' 1-Tense Shift . 2-Verb Substitution . - 3- Verb Incorrectly Formed . 4- Copula Omission . 5- Wrong Tense . 6- Copula Redundancy . 7- Subject Verb agreement . 8- Verb Omission . The statistical analysis has proved that the highest percentage of errors has been found in TS, i.e. 15.20 % of all errors, particularly in the present simple tense , where the lowest percentage of errors has been found in _VO area i.e.9.30 % of all errors . Also , the statistical analysis has proved that there are significant differences between male and female performance in all the previous areas. The researcher attributed this phenomenon to many reasons which she discussed in this study .Finally she put some suggestions and recommendations .
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    Modem American Drama with Special Reference to O’Neill, Williams and Miller.
    (Alneelain University, 2005-02) Muawia Mohammed Dafa Allah.
    Abstract This thesis is entitled “The Tragedy of the Common Man in Modem American Drama with Special reference to O’Neill, Williams and Miller. It consists of seven chapters. The first chapter is an introduction which also states the problem of the study, objectives, hypotheses and study questions. Chapter Two is ‘Literature Review’ fiuictioning as a kind of historical background that traces the origin of drama from Greek times up to Shakespearian tragedies. It is meant as a kind of historical survey with special emphasis on playhouses, playwrights, sun/iving texts and tradition. It, also, gives a general background about two tragedies Sophocles’ Oedipus, the King and Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Beside providing a theoretical fiamework for the study It also examines modern American drama. Chapter three is ‘methodology’ of the study; it explains the data gathering process and states the materials that constitute the primary and secondary sources. Chapter F our explores modem American literature with reference to two dramatists Eugene O’Neillwl1ose tragedy The Iceman Cometh is critically approached as well as Temiessee Williams’ masterpiece The Glass Menagerie. The remainder of this chapter is devoted to Miller’s biography and essays. Chapter five is devoted wholly to Miller’s greatest work Death of a Salesman, on which an exhaustive analysis pertaining to the nature and quality of the drama is presented. In the Chapter Six three of Miller’s best tragedies are dealt with. These are All my Sons, The Crucible andA View from the Bridge. Chapter Seven ‘the conclusion’ finds that these three playwright have contributed to the tradition of tragedy by writing great and successful modern tragedies that should be appreciated world-wide.
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    INVESTIGATING LANGUAGE FACTO S IN J ORDANIAN STUTTERERS
    (Neelain University, 2004) Abdelrahim Yousef Attieh; Abdelrahim Yousef Attieh
    ABSTRACT . This study is an investigation of certain linguistic characteristics of a group of Jordanian stutterers. It is a replication of previous researches done for English-speaking persons who stutter. As a pioneer study, the present study can be considered as an early trial to investigate the linguistic characteristics of the-moments of stuttering. The purpose of this study is to explore the following language factors in stuttering: phonetic difficulty, the lexical and grammatical factors (word class, word length, and word position), distribution of stuttering in sentences -and its relationship to sentence length and clause position, and syntactic complexity. The importance of such factors is to find more support to the psycholinguistic theory of stuttering, to test the universality of such factors, and to help clinicians design better therapy programs. The seventy- four subjects of the study, randomly chosen, are thought to represent various socioeconomic statuses and a wide age range. They were classified into three age groups. The speech sample collected is quite comprehensive since it included both oral readings and conversational speech and covered a wide range of responses that ranged from one-word utterances to long complex sentences. The results of this study can be summarized as follows: l. A rank order of sound difficulty for Jordanian subjects who stutter was established. ' 2. There was significantly and consistently more stuttering on content words than on function words. 3. There was significantly a gradual increase in stuttering along with the increase in word length. 4. Stutter occurrences were invariably in syllable-initial positions (99.3%), mostly in word-initial positions (84.1%). 5. Frequency of stuttering significantly increased when a short sentence was read as an initial clause of a long sentence relative to the frequency of stuttering when it was read alone. Also, the frequency of stuttering on a clause read as an initial part of a long sentence is significantly higher than when it was read as a final clause. 6. For short sentences, stutters occurred at the first words in a way that they declined from one word to the consecutive word. However, this feature diminishes on longer sentences in a way that stutters distributed along all positions of the long sentence, with only relative increase at the first word. 7. The mean percentage of stuttering during oral readings of syntactically complex passages was significantly higher the mean percentage of stuttering during oral readings of syntactically simple passages for both readers’ groups. This study concludes that the language factors that were investigated in the present study have a clear influence on the site and frequency of stutters’ occurrences for the Arabic- speaking individuals who stutter, as it is the case for persons who stutter from other cultures. This may refer to the universality of such factors, which have to be taken into consideration when looking for an explanation of stuttering.