Journal of Tikrit University for Humanities

The current study aims at finding out the effectiveness of the Multisensory Approach for teaching EFL on intermediate school students through finding out :
1. the average level of students' achievement in English.
2. whether there is any significant difference between the achievement of the experimental group and that of the control group in the posttest.
These aims have been achieved through verifying the following hypotheses:
1. The average level of the students’ achievement in the posttest is within the theoretical level of performance in English.
2. There is no significant difference between the mean scores of the experimental group’s achievement and that of the control group’s achievement in the posttest.

The term "trauma" is used to describe ambiguous and long-term harms. The study of psychological trauma has led to the creative representation of literary trauma. Even though the cultural trauma theory is increasingly criticized as being unsuitable for the research agenda of postcolonial studies, the diversity and expanding number of responses to it in postcolonial criticism show the theory's continued appeal. The key question in the discussion of trauma theory and postcolonial literary studies is still whether trauma theory can be successfully "postcolonized" in the sense of being usefully combined with postcolonial theory. Maybe this is one of the unique abilities of literary criticism: to develop the capacity to recognize connections that we were previously unaware of. The search shows the significance of finding closure to transcend past ordeals. The search is an analytical study of Lisa Ko’s novel Leavers. It gives a brief background to the novel and the novelist which displays in what way the novel tackles postcolonial trauma. The main two characters who suffer trauma show the possibility of trauma recovery by achieving their closures. The novel succeeds in depicting trauma and achieving recovery through the main character’s pursuit to find his closure. The study also demonstrates that despite the multiplicity of traumatic causatives, victims have significant symptoms, and their lives and destiny are contingent on their abilities to achieve closure.

This paper is a study of voice onset time, VOT, in Iraqi Turkmen and English. The stops /t, k/ were used in initial position and were embedded in words which were presented to ten native speakers of Iraqi Turkmen and four English native speakers. Recordings were made and analyzed using computer software that generated a spectrogram for each word (prrat). Results prove that stops in Iraqi Turkmen and in English occur at the same place along the VOT. The study also found that Place of articulation has a significant effect on VOT values and asserts the strong relationship between VOT values and place of articulation. Moreover vowel context has its significant effect on VOT values and asserts the strong relationship between VOT values and vowel context. Additionally, it is found that gender impact on VOT values varied from one language group to another, gender has no significant effect in the production of voiceless plosives in Iraqi Turkmen. Whereas English male speakers produce longer voice onset time than Female speakers.

This study aims to look into the relationships between prosodic features from phonological perspective and interactional relationships and sequence organization from conversation analysis (CA) view. There are specific prosodic cues that speakers employ to signal to one another when it is their turn to talk in any speech situation. These cues serve as signs to let other people know when it is the speaker's turn to talk. It is important to demonstrate that some prosodic patterns indicate the end or continuation of a turn.
Prosodic orientation, such as intonation and tone patterns, are hypothesized to reveal information about participants' matching and non-matching of a prior turn. The consistent use of the same pitch height indicates that there is agreement among the participants on a specific situation.
PRAAT, a computer program is used for doing acoustic analysis to conduct the prosodic analysis following Ladefoged’s model. It is supposed that when the speaker makes a low pitch, he is no more interested in the topic raised or no more excited, but when there is a high pitch that means there is more to be added and some significant issues can be shown However, prosodic orientation is obviously used in political interviews in a manner similar to that of ordinary speech. As well as Political interviews commonly employ pauses, interrupted speech, and reasoning, some of which show a particular orientation to the preceding turns© 2023 JTUH, College of Education for Human Sciences, Tikrit University

This paper describes the process of developing and validating a self-assessment survey that measures "technology pedagogical topic knowledge" among preservice instructors studying to teach English as a foreign language (EFL). The questionnaire, called "Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge" )TPACK(, the study aims to provide an assessment tool for preservice foreign language instructors towards the hybrid learning model. The tool used a questionnaire survey. "The sample of the study consist of (30) instructors" (10 male and 20 female) from Baghdad and Tikrit Universities. The results indicate that instructors have superior content, pedagogical, and pedagogical content knowledge, but inferior technical and technological content knowledge. This might be attributed to the lack of digital classroom technology and information assistance in their educational institutions. In general, EFL instructors have favorable opinions on hybrid learning.