Research Activities

Abu-Ayyash, E.A.S., & Hamam, D. (2023). The declarative–procedural knowledge of grammatical functions in higher education ESL contexts: Fiction and reality. Open Linguistics, 9(1): 1-16. DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0242
Khalil, A.A., & Abu-Ayyash, E.A.S. (2023). Investigating the Use of Inflectional and Derivational Morphemes in Academic Written Essays in EFL Contexts in the UAE. Global Journal of Research in Education & Literature, 3(4): 1-23. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8140169
Hill, C., Abu-Ayyash, E., & Charles, T. (2023). By nature, a social animal: an exploration of perceptions of online group work. Cambridge Journal of Education, 53(5): 665-681. DOI: 10.1080/0305764X.2023.2206795
Khalil, A.A., Abu-Ayyash, E.A.S. & Salhieh, S.M.I. (2023). The Role of Lexical Cohesion in Improving Twelfth Graders’ Essay Writing Quality. In K. Al Marri et al. (eds) BUiD Doctoral Research Conference 2022, Springer: 67-78. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-27462-6_7
Abu-Ayyash, E.A.S., Assaf, M.A. & Zabadi, M.I. (2023). Issues in formative assessment and feedback in EMI classrooms. In C. Hill, C. Lin & H. Lai (eds.) Supporting and Learning from Academics, Springer: 69-80. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-9040-3_7
Assaf, M.A., Zabadi, M.I. & Abu-Ayyash, E.A.S. (2022). An investigation into the appropriateness of a procedural negotiated syllabus for adult vocational learners. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 13(6): 1166-1176.  DOI: 10.17507/jltr.1306.04
Abu-Ayyash, E.A.S. (2021). Non-coherent cohesive texts: Lucky’s soliloquy in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. English Text Construction, 14(2): 182-202. DOI: 10.1075/etc.00046.abu
Alawadhi, A. & Abu-Ayyash, E.A.S. (2021). Students’ perceptions of Kahoot!: An exploratory mixed-method study in EFL undergraduate classrooms in the UAE. Education and Information Technologies, 26(4): 3629-3658. DOI: 10.1007/s10639-020-10425-8
Al-Qinneh, D. & Abu-Ayyash, E.A.S. (2020). The play-based behaviours of Emirati preschool children: Cultural Perspective into early childhood education. Child Care in Practice, 28(3): 394-410. DOI: 10.1080/13575279.2020.1816531
Al Masri, H. & Abu-Ayyash, E.A.S. (2020). Second language acquisition from Syrian refugees’ perspectives: Difficulties and solutions. Open Linguistics, 6(1): 372-385. DOI: 10.1515/opli-2020-0025
Abu-Ayyash, E.A.S. (2020). Context and culture via cohesive devices in higher education students’ and professional writers’ opinion articles. GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies, 20(1): 106-120. DOI: 10.17576/gema-2020-2001-07
Abdulrahman, N.C. & Abu-Ayyash, E.A.S. (2019). Linguistic competence, communicative competence and interactional competence. Journal of Advances in Linguistics, 10: 1600-1616. DOI: 10.24297/jal.v10i0.8530
Abu-Ayyash, E.A.S. & Hill, C. (2019). The impact of integrating technology into students’ presentations on peer evaluation in higher education. Education and Information Technologies, 24(6): 3745-3765. DOI: 10.1007/s10639-019-09936-w
Badr, H.M. & Abu-Ayyash, E.A.S. (2019). Semantic mapping or rote memorisation: Which strategy is more effective for students’ acquisition and memorization of L2 vocabulary? Journal of Education and Learning, 8(3): 158-174.  DOI: 10.5539/jel.v8n3p158
Abu-Ayyash, E. A. S. (2019). Proposing a comprehensive model of cohesive devices to investigate the quality of students’ academic writing. International Journal of Social Sciences and Education Research, 5(2): 105-111. DOI: 10.24289/ijsser.505365
Hassanein, A. A. & Abu-Ayyash, E. A. S. (2018). An investigation of the impact of task complexity on ESL learners’ spoken language performance. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 9(6): 1362-1371. DOI: 10.17507/jltr.0906.28
Abu-Ayyash, E.A.S. & McKenny, J. (2017). The flesh and the bones of cohesive devices: Towards a comprehensive model. Journal of World Languages, 4(2): 94-117. DOI: 10.1080/21698252.2017.1417687
Abu-Ayyash, E.A.S. (2017). Errors and non-errors in English-Arabic machine translation of gender-bound constructs in technical texts. Procedia Computer Science, 117: 73-80. DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2017.10.095
Abu-Ayyash, E.A.S. (2017). Research practices in cohesive devices’ studies: Benefiting from chaos. Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 7(6): 409-418. DOI: 10.17507/tpls.0706.01
Abu-Ayyash, E.A.S. & Assaf, M. (2016). The impact of learning-style and task-based teaching of language on learners’ achievement. Journal of Education in Black Sea Region, 2(1): 29-54. DOI: 10.31578/jebs.v2i1.36

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