<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arabic-L: Fri 18 Apr 2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To post messages to the list, send them to <a href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu">arabic-l@byu.edu</a>]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Directory------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1) Subject:New Dissertation-Language Planning in Jordan</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: 18 Apr 2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:reposted from LINGUIST</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:New Dissertation-Language Planning in Jordan</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">nstitution: University of Wisconsin-Madison <br>Program: Department of Linguistics <br>Dissertation Status: Completed <br>Degree Date: 1985 <br><br>Author: Fawwaz Mohammad Al-Rashed Al-Abed Al-Haq<br><br>Dissertation Title: A Case Study of Language Planning in Jordan <br><br>Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics<br><br>Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)<br> English (eng)<br><br><br>Dissertation Director(s):<br>S Verma S<br><br>Dissertation Abstract:<br><br>This dissertation is an exploratory study of language conflict, language<br>planning, and language-user attitudes toward Arabicization in the context<br>of language policy in Jordan. It pursues three objectives: (1) To report on<br>the language-planning activities carried out in Jordan. (2) To survey<br>language and language-policy attitudes among groups of essential language<br>users, by means of two questionnaires developed for this purpose. One was<br>distributed to faculty members at the University of Jordan-Amman and the<br>University of Yarmouk-Irbid, the other to students in the same schools. The<br>questionnaires probe nine factors: (a) language use patterns; (b) language<br>attitudes; (c) proficiency in Arabic and English; (d) attitudes and<br>knowledge about variation in Arabic; (e) instrumentality of language; (f)<br>students' achievement; (g) general standard of education if Arabicization<br>were implemented in Jordan; (h) practical commitment to Arabicization; and<br>(i) attitudes towards Arabicization. Correlations between some of these<br>factors are also investigated, in order to examine possible ambivalence in<br>attitudes towards the major speech varieties in use in Jordan (English,<br>Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, Jordanian Arabic). This study<br>seeks to show the effects of ambivalence, if any, on language policy,<br>especially with regard to Arabicization. (3) The final objective is to<br>relate the results of this study to the overall field of language planning.<br>In summary, the study has demonstrated the desire and commitment of faculty<br>members and students alike to proceed with Arabicization--despite their<br>awareness of the problems connected with variation in Arabic, the lack of<br>technical terms in scientific fields, and the lack of reference materials;<br>it was also felt that study of English should be retained, but not in such<br>a way that it detracts from the use of Arabic as a scientific language.<br>Finally, the review of literature of Language Planning in Jordan reveals<br>that there is a lack of formal association between the Arabic Language<br>Academy of Jordan and the Jordanian universities' authorities, such that<br>there is no real incentive for universities to adopt the fruits of the<br>Academy's labors. <br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">End of Arabic-L: 18 Apr 2008</div></div></div></div></body></html>