Journal of Tikrit University for Humanities

Learning strategies and methods provide learners opportunity to explore their knowledge , organize , compare and contrast information to develop their skills, many teachers want their learners to be activated in classroom.
The most recent vision of language learning has focused on how student-oriented approaches, techniques, methods can be applied in foreign language classes, the knowledge base for writing instructions based on claims is not firmly established in the configuration of academic writing. The teaching experiences of current researchers also confirm that many learners in dispersion, evidence and determination of claims and evidence.
Learners are also in trouble to produce effective written texts that comply with the appropriate content, the organization, the use of voice or precision, the vocabulary are other mechanism. In addition, students adequately improve their academic writing skills with the conventional learning method.
The current study aims at Finding out whether using Research -based teaching enhancing Students’ Ability in negotiation of meaning or not.
This study hypothesized that there is no statistically significant difference between the mean scores of the experimental group that is taught by Research-Based Teaching method and the control group which is taught by ordinary method of writing research.
It is concluded that research based teaching has a great significant effect on the mean score of the third stage of university learners in negotiation meaning by doing research

In numerous English dialect classrooms, educating articulation is allowed the slightest consideration. When EFL instructors protect the destitute articulation abilities of their understudies, their contentions may either be depicted as a cop-out about respect to their failure to educate their understudies on appropriate elocution or they may well be respected as taking a stand against etymological impact.Articulation is vital in English as a communication device since, if mispronounce a word, individuals will misconstrue us. This consideration points to instructing articulation and gliding sounds by utilizing filings and conceptualizing board races in Iraqi private colleges to know how to utilize sound, visual media, and recreations in learning. In reality, utilizing diversions makes fun and unwinds the circumstances of the understudies. The understudies are more able to reply to the teacher’s questions and are more dynamic, which allows them to make proposals to the educator. So, it is recommended to combine sound and visual media and recreations in instructive articulation to advance understudies’ competence, and it comes about to appear that there's a critical qualification amongst the large numbers of the probation within the pre- probation and post- probation among Al-Yarmouk College understudies.

Advising, is a directive, speech act in which, the hearer is directed, by the speaker to, do, a specific action that is going to be, in his own, interest. It simply means telling the hearer what is best for him / her. The current study investigates advising expressions used in the Glorious Qur’an by identifying the advisor who may be Almighty Allah or any human being. It attempts to clarify the exact meaning of advice and how it can be distinguished successfully. The study aims at showing the use of advising speech act in the Glorious Qur’an and pointing out the advisor who usually gives advice in the Glorious Qur’an. It also aims at identifying the indirect strategies of advising speech act in the Glorious Qur’an. To achieve these aims the study hypothesizes that most of advising speech acts are presented by Almighty Allah to his worshipers and that most of the speakers who give advice have a religious authority upon the hearer which enables them to issue advice. The model adopted, in this study is an eclectic one, which is composed of two sources. Firstly, Searle’s (1969) model, which is followed, in identifying, advising speech, acts. Secondly, Martinez -Flor (2003) model which is followed in the classification of advising strategies. The study concludes that most of advising speech acts are given by Almighty Allah to His worshippers. The study also concludes that the implied meaning of advising speech acts of the Qur’anic texts are syntactically realized via using indirect strategies in accordance with Martinez Flor’s (2003).

This study intends to investigate the ways in which news agencies and writers overstate the risk posed by COVID-19 through the use of a linguistic strategy: overstatement. The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, will be the primary focus of this research project. The scope of this data is limited to a random selection of two speeches downloaded from YouTube by President Donald Trump. In light of this, the primary objective of this research is to provide a response to the following question: (1) Which linguistic strategies does Trump employ in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic? (3)Which linguistic and rhetorical tools does he utilise more frequently in the course of putting this linguistic tactic into effect? (3) What functions are performed in addition to using exaggeration in his speech?

Output cognitive strategies are essential for teaching literature in general as they are the outcomes of the process of teaching. When students have the ability to use their cognitive skills, they will be able to develop their learning of literature in general and short story in particular.
The present study aims to identify and compare:
1- The use of output cognitive strategies by EFL university students in studying short story at the colleges of education in Tikrit, Kirkuk ,and Al-Anbar universities.
2- The use of output cognitive strategies : summarizing, and analyzing by EFL university students' in studying short story at three universities.
3- The difference among EFL university students' use of output cognitive strategies in studying short story according to the gender at three universities.
This study includes a sample of 381 undergraduate EFL university students in the second year at the Departments of English, Colleges of Education: Tikrit, Kirkuk and Al-Anbar universities. The study is conducted during the first semester of the academic year 2021-2022. The data are gathered by using a diagnostic test, it identifies and assesses students’ use of summarizing and analyzing in studying short story.