WA'EL MOHAMMAD SABBAH ZURAIQ

Wael M S Zuraiq	Professor
Linguistics	Linguistics
Faculty of Arts	Department of English Language and Literature
zuraiq@hu.edu.jo	http://staff.hu.edu.jo/zuraiq
ORCID ID : 165925002
Office No. : 314	EXT : 3004

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Ph.D.	University of Kansas at Lawrence	The United States of America,2005
Master	Yarmouk University	Jordan,1999
Bachelor	Yarmouk University	Jordan,1996

- Prosody 
- Phonetics and Phonology
- Psycholinguistics 
- Arabic linguistics 
- Second Language Acquisition 
- Lexical semantics

Zuraiq, W., Al-Omari, M., Al Shboul, S., Al Huneety, A, Mashaqba, B. (2020). Effects of Listeners' Expectations of Speakers' Nativeness: Identification of Phonemic Vowel Length. Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews: Vol. 8, No. 4, pp 1106-1115.

Zuraiq, W. and Sereno, J.A. (to appear). Production of English lexical stress by Arabic learners. R. Wayland (Ed.), In Second Language Speech Learning: Theoretical and empirical progress, Cambridge University Press.

Al-Shboul, S., Huneety, A., Mashaqba, B., Zuraiq, W., & Al-Omari, M. (2020). Similarity effects on the emergence of default inflection in Jordanian Arabic. Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literature 12(3). 

Al-Shboul, S., Zuraiq, W., Al-Omari, M., Huneety, A.& Mashaqba, B., (2020) Expanding the default forms in the lexicon: the sound masculine plural inflection. Opci?n, A?o 36, Especial No.26

Al-Omari, M., Zuraiq, W., Mashaqba, B., Al-Shboul, S., & Huneety, A. (2020) Tentative language in mixed-gender conversations of Jordanians: the influence of gender and social status. Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 8 (1). 399-414.

Huneety, A., Mashaqba, B., Al-Omari, M., Zuraiq, W., & Al-Shboul, S. (2019) Patterns of lexical cohesion in Arabic newspaper editorials. Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literature 11(3).273-296.

Abu Abbas, K., Zuraiq, W., & Abdel Ghafer, O. (2014). AGREE as a Special Case of Gradience. Linguistic Analysis, 39, 3-4.

Abdullah A. Jaradat, Wael Zuraiq, and Mohammad Ababneh (2014). Greetings Terms in Jordanian Arabic: New Classifications. Volume 43 No 2, 179-189.

Zuraiq, Wael. (2013). Training Nonnative Speakers to Attain English Prosody. Journal of Language and Literature, 4, 2, 90-96. 

Zuraiq, W. & Abu Joudeh, M. (2013). Consonantal assimilation in Four Dialects of Jordanian Arabic. Studies in Literature and Language, 6, 2, 73-80. 

Abu Abbas, K., Zuraiq, W. & Abdel Ghafer, O. (2011). Geminates and Long Consonants in Jordanian Arabic. International Journal of Linguistics, 3, 1, (E14).

Asassfeh, S., Shaboul, Y., Zuraiq, W. & Shboul, S. (2011). Lending Ears to EFL Learners: Language Difficulties. Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 28, 1, pp. 33-46.

Abu-Abbas, K., Badarneh, M., & Zuraiq, W. (2010). Code-Switching in the Speech of Native Speakers of Arabic in the United States: Structure and Motivations. Arab Journal for Arts, 7, 2, 151-174.

Abu Abbas, K., Zuraiq, W., & Al-Tamimi, F. (2010). Assimilation and Local Conjunction in Arabic. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 7, 3, 64-83.

Zuraiq, Wael (2009). Lexical Stress and EFL Learners: A Phonetic study on native speakers of Arabic learning English. VDM Verlag. ISBN 978-3-639-19747-1.

Zuraiq, W. & Abu Abbas, K. (2009). Assimilation Processes by Arab Learners of English. IJAES, 10, 85-92.

Zuraiq, W. and Sereno, J.A. (2007). English lexical stress cues in native English and non-native Arabic speakers. In J. Trouvain and B. Barry (Eds.) Proceedings of the 16th. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVI), 829-832. 

Zuraiq, Wael & Zhang Jie (2006). Phonological Assimilation in Urban Jordanian Arabic. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 28 (2006): 33-64.

 -MA Theses: Supervision

Main Supervisor at Hashemite University

Aya Daoud (2020). Acquisition of Emphatics in Jordanian Arabic.

Yazeed Al-badareen (2018). Persuasive Strategies in Barack Obama and Donald Trump's Speeches: A Critical Discourse.

Anwar al Hawamdeh (2016). Native and Nonnative Apology.

Ruba Faik (2015). The Role of Gender in Using Euphemistic Expressions by Salesmen in Jordan.

Farah Al Moghrabi(2015). Arab EFL Learners and Grammatical Errors in Writing.

Noor al Amyaan (2015). Intonational Patterns of Jordanian Arabic.

Internal Examiner at Hashemite University

Ahlam Abou Joudeh (2019). The Pragmatic Functions of Discourse Markers in Arabic Religious Friday Ceremonies.

Baraa Thneibaat (2019). The Acoustics of Cleft Palate in Jordanian Children.

Fatima Al Shareef (2019). Translating Humour in Audiovisual Translation.

Basim Al-Zawahreh (2019). Building Tasks in Nelson Mandel's Speeches.

Maisa Al-saaidi (2017). "Irony and Puns in English Advertisements: An Inferential Approach to Non-Verbal Messages".

Heba Qatanani (2016). The Effect of Morphological Awareness of Lexical Patterns on the Lexicon Size of Non-Native Speakers of Arabic.

Rasha Kalil Abdallah (2016). Pragmatic Markers in Jordanian Arabic and American English:  A Comparative Linguistic Study.

Eman Bani Salameh (2015). A Pragmatic Study of Flouting Grice's Maxims in Emad Hajjaj's Caricature of Abu Mahjoob.

Mohammad Bani Younes (2014). Gender Differences in Lexical Range and SyntacticComplexity in English Language Jordanian Learner's Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication.

External Examiner

Khalid Kanani (2020). Loan Word Stress Patterns in the Arabic of Middle and Southern Jordanian Bedouins: A Constraint-Based Analysis. Yarmouk University.

Fadi Zyout (2020). Gender Differences in Using Hashtag on Facebook among Jordanians: A Case Study of Coronavirus Pandemic. Jadara University.

Ola Khazaleh (2020). The Production of Pharyngeal Sounds in Hourani Arabic. Yarmouk University.

Hani Naim (2019). Constraints Interaction in Urban Jordanian Arabic: The Case of Medial Tri-Consonantal Cluster. Yarmouk University.

Safa Al Barakat (2019). The Speech Act of Warning in the Holy Quran. (Jordan University of Science and Technology).

Fadia Maqableh (2018). Investigation of Congratulation Expression by Young Arab Jordanian Facebookers on Mothers' Day. Jadara University.

Ibarheem Momani (2018). Emphasis in Ajolouni Dialect, Yarmouk University.

Delal Omari (2017). Emphasis in Algerian Arabic, Yarmouk University. 

Ibraheem Harahsheh (2016). A Pragmatic Study of Swearing Expressions in Arabic, Jadara University.

Hussein Bani Khalid (2013). Short Vowels in an Eastern-Jordan Bedouin Bani Khalid Dialect in Certain Standard Arabic Measures: A Phonological Account, (Jordan University of Science and Technology).

Dima Al-Malahmeh (2010). A Phonological Approach to First Name Preferences in Jordan. Jordan University of Science and Technology.

Selected Appointments

Associate Professor of Linguistics and Translation (HU) 2014 to present.

Associate Professor of Translation (American University of Madaba) 2015/2016.
Director of Language Center (HU) 2014/2015.

Language Editor (HU): 2008 to 2010: Jordan Journal of Biological Sciences, Jordan Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and The Jordan Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Assistant Professor and Chair (HU): 2006/2007 - Department of English Language and Literature.

Assistant Professor of Linguistics: 2005 to 2014 - Department of English Language and Literature. HU and Arab Open University (Jordan Branch)

Assistant Professor of Linguistics: 2011 to 2012 - Department of 
English Language and Literature (Arab Open University: Jordan Branch).

Arabic Instructor at Qasid Institute: Amman, 2010 Summer program.

Arabic Instructor: Kansas University 2003 to 2005 - Department of African and African-American Studies.

Taught Courses
BA Level
Introduction to Language			
English Phonetics and Phonology 	
Acoustic Phonetics 			
Introduction Generative Syntax		
A course in Semantics
Speaking and Pronunciation
Oral Skills
Essay Writing
Advanced Reading
English for Specific Purposes
Arabic for Beginners		
Intermediate Arabic 
Advanced Arabic 
Media Arabic 
Arabic for Diplomats 
English: past, present, and future
English Grammar in Context			

BA & MA Levels
Introduction to Psycholinguistics		
Introduction to Sociolinguistics		
Topics in Linguistics				
Research Writing
Topics in Translation

MA Level
				
Research Seminar				
Second Language Phonology		
Comparative Linguistics			
Issues in Translation						
Applied Translation			
Translation Theory

1.  Syntax I
2.  Psycholinguistics
3.  Reading
4.  English for Tourism 
5.  Syntax II
6.  Speaking and Pronunciation 
7.  Introduction to Linguistics
8.  Research writing
9.  Special topics / Semantics
10. Oral Skills 
11. Advanced reading and writing

1. Culture and Religion of North Africa: Summer Institute (June 2004). African and
 African American Studies: The University of Kansas / USA.

2. Acoustic Correlates of English Lexical Stress. (Dec. 2004). Linguistics Dept.
 Colloquy: The University of Kansas / USA.

3. Arabic Language and Culture: Summer Institute (June 2005). African and African
American Studies: The University of Kansas / USA.

4. Perception of Native and Non-native English Lexical Stress (Dec. 2005). English Dept.
 Colloquy: The Hashemite University / Jordan.

5. An Acoustic Analysis of Lexical Stress Cues in Speakers' First and Second Languages.
(2007) Mid-America Linguistics Conference Program: The University of Kansas/  USA.

6. English Lexical Stress Cues in Native English and Non-Native Arabic Speakers
 (ICPHS 2007): Saarbrücken / Germany.

7. Problems of Learners of Arabic as a Second Language: Evidence from Phonetics
(2008): Al-Masri, Mohammad   & Zuraiq, Wael. First international conference on Arabic as a foreign language: University of Jordan / Jordan.

8. Academic problems and Socio-psychological Constraints of English-Major
Undergraduate Students at the Hashemite University. APETAU 4th. International Conference 2009, Amman, Jordan.

9. Optionality and Second Language Phonology. APETAU 4th. International 
Conference 2009, Amman, Jordan.


Software Skills

Speech analysis software (Multispeech, Praat, Super Lab & paradigm for perception). 
Statistical analysis software (SPSS).


On-Campus selected committees

Committee for Quality Assurance
Committee for Postgraduate Studies
Committee for Curricula
Committee for Social and Cultural Activities
Committee for Alumni
National committee for English examination for graduate students: Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

Community services	
Founder, a member in the steering committee, and a Deputy in Al-Awadeen Society
 for mutual benefits, 1992 to present.
Founding member in Pediatrics Society and Charity- Irbid

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