Ali Hussein Hazem

@uohamdaniya.edu.iq

College of Education for Humanities, Department of English
University of Al-Hamdaniya

Ali Hussein Hazem


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Language and Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
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Scopus Publications

  • Students’ Perceptions of Using iPad Applications to Support EFL Oral Communication Skills
    Ali Hussein Hazem, Aram George Simon, Marwa Muhammad Ahmed, Bushra Ni’ma Rashid, Bushra Saadoon Mohammed Alnoori
    Online Learning in Educational Research, 2026
    This study aims to investigate students' perceptions of the use of iPad apps to support oral communication skills in EFL instruction. The researchers used a descriptive quantitative research design and data was collected through the use of a questionnaire to conduct this research study. A total of 30 EFL students at Secondary School in Baghdad, Iraq, were chosen at random to participate in this study during the second semester of the academic year. The questionnaire was developed to assess the perceptions of EFL students of how the use of iPad applications can assist them with speaking fluency, authentic language exposure, authentic language use, and understanding the culture of the people they are communicating with. The results of the study show that most of the students viewed the iPad applications as useful for practicing oral communication. In fact, the students indicated that the iPad applications facilitated providing them with authentic language input and making speaking activities more engaging because they had the ability to provide students with authentic language exposure. However, the students’ responses to the questionnaire also indicated that the success of using iPad applications for language practice is dependent on the effective use of pedagogical approaches and requiring the active participation of the students who are using the iPad applications for language practice. This study concludes that iPad apps have the potential to support the development of speaking skills, although more effective implementation strategies are needed in an educational setting.
  • Gendered Narratives in Children’s Literature: Analyzing Femininity and Power
    Maha M. Al-Gailany, Abeer Khalaf Hussein, Ali Hussein Hazem
    Jurnal Arbitrer, 2025
    Children’s literature plays a crucial role in shaping young minds by constructing and representing gender roles and expectations. In classic stories, the male protagonists are usually active, adventurous, and solvers of problems, whereas the female roles are supporting, nurturing, and waiting to be rescued. This study seeks to examine images of femininity and power relations in society dealt with in children’s literature through its female characters’ levels of agency, power, and children-related roles. The data of the study involves selected excerpts from the classic children’s literature “Sindbad, the Sailor’s Seven Voyages” written anonymously in (1835) in “The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments” by Philadelphia/Thomas Wardle. Connell’s (1987) model of power and gender is adopted for the analysis where nine excerpts are randomly selected from the seven voyages stories of Sindbad. Each excerpt is given, then the effects of themes like authority, financial inequality, and social norms on both family and society are reflected along with discussion for each analysis. It is concluded that the traditional children’s literature often reinforces patriarchal norms, particularly in the portrayal of femininity and power dynamics. Female characters are often marginalised and used as tools to maintain male authority, reinforcing traditional gender roles and limiting female agency. Hence, the findings imply that Sindbad the Sailor’s story reflects a world shaped by patriarchal power, with women showing little economic power, not much authority, and being stuck in roles based on traditional gender norms. The conclusion proves the given hypothesis.
  • COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS USED IN POPE’S 2021 SPEECH IN IRAQ: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
    Abber Khalaf Hussein, Ali Hussein Hazem, Dina Fahmi Kamil
    Jurnal Ilmiah Islam Futura, 2025
    The ongoing state of religious diversity leads to the need of adhering interfaith dialogue as a means for achieving religious pluralism that encourages and promotes respect and acceptance of freedom of religion. Pope Francis’s (2021) speech delivered in the historical City of Ur, Iraq is a call for such pluralism. In this study, it is hypothesised that Pope has focused on the communicative functions that enhance religious diversity acceptance. The study aims at finding out the communicative functions employed in Pope’s speech. In order to achieve this aim, Gerard Genette’s theory of narratology (1980) is adopted. Based on the findings of the analysis, it is concluded that various communicative functions are utilized: narrative, directing, communication, and ideological. Mostly used one is the communication function which is critical in transmitting the fundamental message of unity, peace, and brotherhood. This function is critical for engaging the audience and instilling a sense of shared responsibility for promoting tolerance and peace among religious communities. Consequently, the conclusions arrived at affirm the put hypotheses.
  • From Crisis to Hope: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Boris Johnson’s Easter Day Speech
    Abeer Khalaf HUSSEIN, Ali Hussein HAZEM, Maha M Al-GAILANY
    Asian Journal of Human Services, 2024
    Critical Discourse Analysis is a research approach which examines how language use reflects and maintains societal power dynamics. It seeks to reveal hidden meanings and ideologies in speech by investigating how language establishes social reality, reinforces power hierarchies, and shapes social practices. In the current study, Fairclough's (2001) model is adopted to analyze a speech delivered by the UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, on April 12, 2020, during Easter Sunday to the nation. In this speech, Boris Johnson thanked The National Health Service for saving his life from Covid-19 after leaving the hospital. The problem of the study is of three-folds:(1) understanding the speech's context and backdrop, particularly the COVID-19 epidemic and its effects on the UK (2) Recognizing the possible impact of political objectives and biases on the speech's linguistic construction (3) overcoming the difficulty of locating and examining hidden meanings and presumptions in the speech. It is hypothesized that the speaker uses language reflecting a strong national unity. It is hypothesized that the speaker uses language reflecting a strong national unity. The study concludes that the speech involves using different discoursal and ideological features and structures (such as nationalism, calling for action, increasing solidarity, etc.) that directly reflect the power of the language used to make the speaker influence his audience positively. Also, the analysis confirms the hypothesis raised.
  • ICONICITY IN THE BINOMIALS OF THE GLORIOUS QURAN: AL-BAQARAH SURA AS A CASE STUDY
    Ali Hussein Hazem, Zahraa Muharam Salman, Muhammad Hamza Kanaan
    Jurnal Ilmiah Islam Futura, 2023
    This study investigates evidence for the existence of iconicity as a processing strategy in Quranic discourse. It is argued here that the Muslim’s most glorious book, the Quran, is an excellent source of morphosyntactic iconicity in the Arabic language. The hypothesis was tested by analysing sixty-six binomials from Al-Baqarah Sura within a synthetic model based on an extension of Givón’s 1984 model of iconicity. The findings show that some of the sampled iconic binomials accord with these principles, while others are iconic with regard to the human perceptual system. This result challenges Saussurian arbitrariness and lends support for the view that some aspects of language are iconic. Furthermore, iconic binomials are richly manifested in Quranic lexicon and discourse. This is because they are part of the rhetoric of Quran. Allah has created everything in pairs: night and day, death and life, sun and moon, paradise and hell, etc. These pairs express such rhetorical functions as revealing situation, warning, promising, inhibition, specification, etc. They also express Allah’s intention in motivating people to make a balance between benefits and problems of each pair. The role played by iconic binomials can be easily tested by removing some of them from the suras of Quran and asking what happens then. On such cases, the Quranic rhetoric is distorted rather than unites. Above all, such binomials are cross linguistics, they are universal since they are found in all languages. This conclusions challenges Sapir-Worf hypothesis and lends support to an assumption of a minimal universality of linguistic interactions.
  • A Pragmatic Study of Connectives in Mosuli Dialect with Reference to English
    Raghda Qiryaqous Estaifo, Waleed Younus Meteab, Ali Hussein Hazem
    World Journal of English Language, 2023
    Connectives are used as discourse markers by speakers of Mosuli Iraqi Arabic so that listeners will pay more attention during their utterances. The current study investigates the pragmatic functions of connectives in Mosuli Iraqi Arabic, selected from seven comedy series presented by Hassan Fashel. These comedy series contain the commonly used connectives that were investigated in the current research. These connectives are zee, kawee, dahiq, hasatta, and they are assumed to have different functions in different contexts. The study aimed to prove that connectives in Mosuli are multifunctional and intended to guide the listener to interpret the speaker’s utterance. The data selected from the series were analyzed according to Brinton’s model (1996). It is concluded that these connectives are multifunctional in different contexts and that the connective kawee was the most common in Mosuli dialect. The study also concludes with some remarkable suggestions that will be valuable for further research.
  • A Critical Discourse Analysis of Feminism in Drama: Susan Glaspell and Alice Childress as a Case Study
    Israa Burhanuddin ABDURRAHMAN, Aya Qasim HASAN, Ali Hussein HAZEM
    Asian Journal of Human Services, 2023
    This study is a critical discourse analysis of two feminist plays: The Verge by Susan Glaspell (1921) and The Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White by Alice Childress (1966) dealing with the representation of feminism of the heroines of the two plays. Many studies have dealt with critical discourse analysis of feminism in different literary genres, however, plays have been given less attention in this respect. This study shows the role of feminism in two different societies; it also tries to highlight the problems that women face at the time of the World War I in America, the thoughts and beliefs that society has against women and how women fight to break these traditions throughout these selected plays. Accordingly, the study hypothesizes that society and social traditions have an important role in the lives of women in the sense that both black and white women face different kinds of oppression. The model adopted for analysis is Fairclough's model (1989) and the data are analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively leading to the most important conclusions revealing that oppression is used against both black and white women and that women though of different societies face oppressions and undergo outdated social traditions; however, women differ in their way to break these traditions.
  • A Critical Discourse Analysis of Feminism in Katherine Mansfield's Bliss
    Israa Burhanuddin Abdurrahman, Reem Adnan Hamad, Ruqaiya Burhanuddin Abdurrahman, Ali Hussein Hazem
    Asian Journal of Human Services, 2023
    Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a research paradigm that linguistically addresses the prevailing social problems by opposing dominant ideological positions. Women's status in society appears to be fixed in division in that Women are so trained to think and live in parts that they cannot pull themselves together. Choosing Katherine Mansfield’s Bliss, the present study hypothesizes that man is portrayed as being superior, controller and dominant as opposed to the woman who is inferior, disadvantaged and devalued. This idea hints at the dialectic relation between language and social reality which constitutes the core of Norman Fairclough's model. The procedures followed in carrying out the present study consist mainly of two parts: the first focuses on the theoretical background in which a survey of past literature about CDA and feminism is done, the second part is the practical in which analysis of the chosen short story is conducted by adopting Fairclough’s (2018) model of analysis. Analyzing Bliss and examining the contrastive-analysis- results show that man is portrayed as the superior gender. The author uses specific terminologies and structures that distinguish men’s language, issues and concerns by exhibiting man as being dominant and powerful. Although on different dimensions, women's identity, power ideology and women's construction as man's other are textually realized in both cultures proving the issue that language is the carrier of ideologies and the recipe of life.
  • PAUCITY AND MULTIPLICITY IN THE GLORIOUS QURAN: A MORPHOPRAGMATIC ANALYSIS
    Israa Burhanuddin Abdurrahman, Amina Khalid Ibrahim, Ali Hussein Hazem
    Jurnal Ilmiah Islam Futura, 2022
    In this study, a morpho-pragmatic analysis of broken plural in the Glorious Quran is tackled to answer the question whether the types of broken plural can be replaced without affecting the meaning, and to achieve the aim that these various forms are utilized thoughtfully and creatively and are never used randomly. Accordingly, it is hypothesized in the present study that the broken plural multi forms in the Glorious Quran are selected sensibly and they function in a way that leads the reader to a scene of wider conceptual view and consideration. The value of this study lies in the endeavor to widen the horizon of the reader that the variety of broken plural forms in the Glorious Quran are much more meaningful than they look. This paves the way to consider many items in the Holly Quran as significant, worthwhile, and telling. To prove the hypothesis and achieve the aim, this paper adopts Dressler and Merlini-Barbaresi’s (1994) model in analyzing the chosen excerpts where language choices can be conceived at the level of pragmatics in relation to morphology. Eight Quranic texts are selected, analyzed, discussed, and conclusions are finally derived to assert that the various forms of broken plural in the Glorious Quran are manipulated exquisitely in an effective way.
  • Teaching Grammar to Iraqi EFL Students of Al-Hamdaniya University during COVID-19 Pandemic: Problems and Solutions
    Zahraa Muharam Salman, Ali Hussein Hazem, Dina Fahmi Kamil, Muhammad Hamza Kanaan
    World Journal of English Language, 2022
    During the fight against Covid-19, schools and universities in Iraq and many other countries have been closed and digital learning has begun to take place. In this paper, the researchers have tried to identify the difficulties which faced students through Electronic Learning (hereafter, E-learning) during Covid-19. Inadequate instruction, lack of internet and electricity, little experience and low attendance are just some of the problems that our student face in this type of learning. To assess the benefit of such learning in Iraq, it is hypothesized in this paper that online learning has a bad impact on students’ performance be it spoken or written. To test the validity of the hypothesis, an online questionnaire of (3) items was given to (30) 4th year students of English department to identify the problems and solutions to digital learning from their own perspective. Data was analyzed by using a mixed method (i:e both quantitative and qualtitative) because such method describes and interpretes statistical percentages. The results of the analysis show that the biggest problem for most of the students in particular in our country is that electricity and internet are not available all the time. Another conclusion is that some students personally are not interested in the subject of grammar. It has also been found that the best solution is to go back to classroom teaching or face to face communucation. The study provides some recommendations which can be of benefit to EFL teachers, students and probably to the teaching process in cases of emergency.
  • A Linguistic Study of English Double Negation and its Realization in Arabic
    Sahar Abdulsalam Alshargabi, Dina Fahmi Kamil, Ali Hussein Hazem
    Studies in English Language and Education, 2022
  • Domain adverbs in legal english texts: Problems and strategies
    Iup Journal of English Studies, 2020

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Students’ Perceptions of Using iPad Applications to Support EFL Oral Communication Skills
    AH Hazem, AG Simon, MM Ahmad, BN Rashid, BSM Alnoori
    Online Learning in Educational Research 6 (1), 99-106 , 2026
    2026
  • Affix Recognition Among University Students of English
    AH Hazem, FF Jasim
    Second International scientific conference for the college of Education for … , 2026
    2026
  • Gendered Narratives in Children’s Literature: Analyzing Femininity and Power
    MM Al-Gailany, AK Hussein, AH Hazem
    Jurnal Arbitrer 12 (2), 227-237 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 3
  • Frequency of Clause Patterns in English and Arabic Texts
    AH Hazem
    Hamdaniya Journal for Humanities 1 (0), 179-193 , 2025
    2025
  • Forms and Functions of Arabic Perfect Tense
    AH Hazem, SI Mohammed
    Mustansiriyah Journal of Humanities 1 (Special Issue), 425-436 , 2025
    2025
  • Communicative functions used in Pope’s 2021 speech in Iraq: A critical discourse analysis of religious pluralism
    AK Hussein, AH Hazem, DF Kamil
    Jurnal Ilmiah Islam Futura 25 (1), 134-150 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • A Syntactico-Pragmatic Analysis of The Vocative Case in The Language of Shakespeare and Its Pedagogical Implications
    IB Abdurrahman, IT Jawad, RB Abdurrahman, A Hussein, DFK Hazem
    2025
  • Ellipsis In The Narrative Structure Of Ghassan Kanafani’s Men In The Sun
    RW Mohammed, AH Hazem, ZM Salman
    Ijaz Arabi Journal of Arabic Learning 8 (1) , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • From Crisis to Hope: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Boris Johnson's Easter Day Speech
    AK Hussein, AH Hazem, MM Al-Gailany
    Asian Journal of Human Services 26, 122-134 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 3
  • A critical discourse analysis of feminism in drama: Susan Glaspell and Alice Childress as a case study
    IB ABDURRAHMAN, AQ HASAN, AH HAZEM
    Asian Journal of Human Services 25, 45-66 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 10
  • Iconicity in the Binomials of the Glorious Quran: Al-Baqarah Sura as a Case Study
    AH Hazem, ZM Salman, MH Kanaan
    Jurnal Ilmiah Islam Futura 23 (2), 404-426 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 2
  • A Critical Discourse Analysis of Feminism in Katherine Mansfield's Bliss
    IB Abdurrahman, RA Hamad, RB Abdurrahman, AH Hazem
    Asian Journal of Human Services 24, 1-20 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 13
  • A pragmatic study of connectives in Mosuli dialect with reference to English
    RQ Estaifo, WY Meteab, AH Hazem
    World 13 (6) , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 5
  • Strategies for Teaching English Grammar to Students of Iraqi Universities
    MH Kanaan, AH Hazem, DF Kamil
    EDUCASIA: Jurnal Pendidikan, Pengajaran, dan Pembelajaran 7 (2), 183-193 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 8
  • A linguistic study of English double negation and its realization in Arabic
    SA Alshargabi, DF Kamil, AH Hazem
    Studies in English Language and Education 9 (3), 1148-1169 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 15
  • Paucity and Multiplicity in the Glorious Quran: A Morphopragmatic Analysis
    IB Abdurrahman, AK Ibrahim, AH Hazem
    Jurnal Ilmiah Islam Futura 22 (2), 182-202 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 5
  • The impact of grammatical competence on 1st year university English students’ written performance
    ZM Salman, AH Hazem
    International Journal of Health Sciences (IJHS) 6 (S), 11455–11466 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 14
  • A Morph-o-Semantic Study of Evidentiality in Arabic with Reference to Translation
    AH Hazem, DF Kamil
    ARTA Journal of Translation and Languages: Interdisciplinary Studies 1 (1 … , 2022
    2022
  • Teaching Grammar to Iraqi EFL Students of Al-Hamdaniya University during COVID-19 Pandemic: Problems and Solutions
    ZM Salman, AH Hazem, DF Kamil, MH Kanaan
    World Journal of English Language 12 (5), 298-305 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 13
  • Mitigating devices in Mosuli Iraqi Arabic with reference to English
    AH Hazem, SI Mohammad
    Ijaz Arabi Journal of Arabic Learning 4 (3) , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 11

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • A linguistic study of English double negation and its realization in Arabic
    SA Alshargabi, DF Kamil, AH Hazem
    Studies in English Language and Education 9 (3), 1148-1169 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 15
  • The impact of grammatical competence on 1st year university English students’ written performance
    ZM Salman, AH Hazem
    International Journal of Health Sciences (IJHS) 6 (S), 11455–11466 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 14
  • A Critical Discourse Analysis of Feminism in Katherine Mansfield's Bliss
    IB Abdurrahman, RA Hamad, RB Abdurrahman, AH Hazem
    Asian Journal of Human Services 24, 1-20 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 13
  • Teaching Grammar to Iraqi EFL Students of Al-Hamdaniya University during COVID-19 Pandemic: Problems and Solutions
    ZM Salman, AH Hazem, DF Kamil, MH Kanaan
    World Journal of English Language 12 (5), 298-305 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 13
  • Domain adverbs in legal English texts: Problems and strategies
    AH Hazem, MH Kanaan
    IUP Journal of English Studies 15 (4), 130-141 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 13
  • The impact of Arabic on the written English performance of second-year students in relation to prepositions
    DF Kamil, AH Hazem
    Journal of University of Babylon for Humanities 28 (2) , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 12
  • A syntactic-o-semantic study of english resumptive pronouns in university students of English written performance
    AH Hazem
    Hazem, Ali Hussein.(2015). A Syntactic-O-Semantic Study of English … , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 12
  • Mitigating devices in Mosuli Iraqi Arabic with reference to English
    AH Hazem, SI Mohammad
    Ijaz Arabi Journal of Arabic Learning 4 (3) , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 11
  • Nominal Constructions in Modern Standard Arabic With Reference to English
    AH Hazem, WY Meteab
    International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 11
  • A critical discourse analysis of feminism in drama: Susan Glaspell and Alice Childress as a case study
    IB ABDURRAHMAN, AQ HASAN, AH HAZEM
    Asian Journal of Human Services 25, 45-66 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 10
  • A Morpho-Syntactic Approach to Translating English Verb Phrases in Literary Texts into Arabic
    WY Meteab, AH Hazem
    Adab Al- Kufa 44 (1), 805-814 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 10
  • Using Quantifiers in English University Students: Problems and Strategies
    MAH Hazem
    2017
    Citations: 10
  • A Syntactic O-Semantic Study of Negative Particles in Arabic Literary Discourse With Reference to Translation
    DF Kamil, AH Hazem
    المجلة العربیة للآداب والدراسات الإنسانیة 3 (10), 327-341 , 2019 ‎
    2019
    Citations: 9
  • Strategies for Teaching English Grammar to Students of Iraqi Universities
    MH Kanaan, AH Hazem, DF Kamil
    EDUCASIA: Jurnal Pendidikan, Pengajaran, dan Pembelajaran 7 (2), 183-193 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 8
  • Subject Verb Agreement in Iraqi Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic: A comparative Study
    AH Hazem
    Journal of Al-Frahedis Arts 2 (28), 363-374 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 8
  • The Role of Discourse Markers in Organizing Literary Discourse: HG Wells’ The Time Machine as a Case Study
    AH Hazem, SA Khuder, MH Kanaan
    ADAB AL-RAFIDAYN Journal 84 (51), 1-26 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 7
  • Problems encountered in translating Alternative Questions from Arabic into English
    AH Hazem, DF Kamil
    Journal of Language Studies 2 (4), 76-90 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 7
  • A Syntactic Analysis of Cognate Accusative in Arabic with Reference to English
    WY Meteab, DF Kamil, AH Hazem
    journal of the college of basic education 26 (106), 54-68 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 6
  • A pragmatic study of connectives in Mosuli dialect with reference to English
    RQ Estaifo, WY Meteab, AH Hazem
    World 13 (6) , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 5
  • Paucity and Multiplicity in the Glorious Quran: A Morphopragmatic Analysis
    IB Abdurrahman, AK Ibrahim, AH Hazem
    Jurnal Ilmiah Islam Futura 22 (2), 182-202 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 5