Abdullah Ahmed Zughaibi's research while affiliated with Jazan University and other places

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Teaching has been continuously evaluated in light of learning styles research. This highlights the significance of investigating learning styles that may be evolving in tandem with changes in the contemporary era. This study assumes that twenty-first-century students share characteristics not based on unimodal models of learning styles, particularl...
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Learner skills and behaviors have motivated research in foreign language learning to investigate the relationship between learners' autonomy (LA) and their learning style preferences. Robotham (1995) and Felder (1996) claim that autonomous learning can be associated with specific perceptual learning styles. The present study attempts to contribute...
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This study aims to investigate Saudi teachers’ pragmatic awareness and the impact of their gender and qualification. A lack of appropriate knowledge and pragmatic activities may limit students’ pragmatic growth in the target language. Thus far, most pragmatic research has focused on issues concerning learners’ pragmatic competence, with only a few...
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Purpose English instructors' pragmatic competence (PC) is an aspect of the overall communicative competence forming the basis of language instructors' knowledge. Their knowledge of pragmatics should not be overlooked when seeking to understand foreign language learners' communicative ability. This study aims to investigate the pragmatic awareness a...
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Nowadays, especially after the COVID-19 crisis lockdown, the heavy reliance on technology and online platforms led to a greater expectation of more learning autonomy among English learners in EFL contexts such as Saudi Arabia. The sudden shift to online learning requires an investigation into students’ readiness and willingness for such a mode of l...
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Nowadays, especially after the COVID-19 crisis lockdown, the heavy reliance on technology and online platforms led to a greater expectation of more learning autonomy among English learners in EFL contexts such as Saudi Arabia. The sudden shift to online learning requires an investigation into students’ readiness and willingness for such a mode of l...

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... that pragmatic awareness embodies the explicit and cognizant understanding of pragmatics. Thus, pragmatic awareness involves understanding the rules and conventions that govern the use of appropriate language in specific communicative contexts, as well as the linguistic practices observed by members of particular speech communities (Timpe-Laughlin et al., 2021;Zughaibi, 2023). More specifically pragmatic awareness constitutes the explicit knowledge and awareness of inherent speech acts being employed in a given communicative setting among the community members. ...
... Teachers are aware of the importance of grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation as teaching units, but they do not overlook the knowledge of how to use the language. This finding is consistent with similar studies such as Zughaibi (2022), Vu (2018), and Masrour et al., (2019) where nonnative speaker teachers' perceptions regarding pragmatics in EFL contexts were explored. In all of them, the results suggested that teachers perceive linguistic and pragmatic knowledge as equally important. ...
... Compared with other traditional methods, virtual classes can encourage them to complete assignments or projects outside of class and demonstrate a willingness to learn. These outcomes are supported by Ghobain and Zughaibi's (2021) results. They revealed that students showed moderate autonomy when taking responsibility for their English learning in online classes. ...