Umm Al-Qura University

Umm Al-Qura University

Academic Research


- 2024/10/14
Academic Research
Research in the Department of English covers three main areas: linguistics, literature and translation. Our research fosters creativity and innovation, and an increasing interest in interdisciplinarity. Our members are published in Local and International journals that are indexed in ISI and Scopus, and have been actively engaging in conferences and workshops in local and international academic institutions.

Our Research
Research in the Department of English encompasses a diverse range of topics in literature and language across various periods. Our focus includes literary studies, linguistics, translation, and interdisciplinary connections with science, sociology, psychology, pedagogy, religion, race, media, and cultural studies. Our scholars' research prominently features in international edited collections such: Teaching and Learning English in the Arabic-Speaking World, Global Research on Teaching and Learning English (2014); Rebellious Writing Contesting Marginalisation in Edwardian Britain (2020)Literacies in the Age of Mobility Literacy Practices of Adult and Adolescent Migrants (2022)Dear Vaccine Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic (2022)The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice (2024).
                    
Our faculty members also have also participated in a department-led collaborative research project, a translation to English of His Royal Highness Prince Khaled Al Faisal’s Book If we Don’t…. Who Will..!!? which was published by Umm Al-Qura University Press (2022) as it holds local significance for the strong national values it embodies. Department members also participate in external collaborative research projects such as "Pleasure Reading for Immigrant Adults on a Volunteer-Run Programme," in Literacies in the Age of Mobility, Palgrave Macmillan (published online on Springer Link January 2022)"L2 acquisition and L1 attrition of VOTs of voiceless plosives in highly proficient late bilinguals," Second Language Research (October 2022); and Makkan Arabic in the digital age: A sociolinguistic analysis of the representation of fricative, stop, and sibilant variation in WhatsApp text messages, Journal of Arabic Sociolinguistics Published by Edinburgh University Press (September 2024).
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