《使用汉字数字的优点》一文失之偏颇——与乔友复先生商榷

对《使用汉字数字的优点》一文的主张“在版物上凡是可以使用汉字数字而且又很得体的地方，应尽可能地使用汉字数字”提出了异议。     

科技期刊中数字“1”和“一”及“2”和“两”“二”的用法

使用阿拉伯数字具有如一优点:1)它是世界通用的数字,科技书刊中使用它便于国际交流;2)科技工作者整天与数字打交道,对于阿拉伯数字的视觉反应最为敏感;3)笔画简单,组数简短,便于计算机录入.     

The Will to Be Unveiled: Sufi Autobiographies in Classical Sufism

While autobiography as a special genre increasingly occupies an important position in modern scholarship, independent Sufi autobiographies still require additional and detailed examination. The current paper seeks to examine two spiritual autobiographies known very well in the history of Sufism: Al-?akīm al-Tirmidhī's Bad? sha?n, and Rūzbihān al-Baqlī's Kashf al-asrār. References to these works in modern research do not go beyond the assumption that they may represent visionary autobiographies, dreams, and mystical, extraordinary experiences and states. In the framework of this paper, we consider it essential to regard both texts as serious indicators of different realities, contexts, and mystic discourses.     

Differing expectations: an account of home and school factors affecting EAL learners from Arabic-speaking backgrounds

This article considers research from a preliminary study of Libyan children's accounts of their experience learning English as an additional language (EAL) within mainstream schools in the LJK. The analysis of interviews and classroom observations suggests that for equal opportunity to take place, local education authorities need to place greater emphasis on language and educational provision for newcomers to UK primary schools. In addition, there is still a communication barrier as well as a language barrier between home and school which needs to be addressed in order for children to adjust to and meet school requirements. In a similar way, parents of newly arrived children need to have clear expectations. The implications of this piece of research are extremely relevant for additional language acquisition in British schools and, in particular, for the education of newcomers whose circumstances are similar to those of the children in this study. This research also enables the voice of Arab children, as learners of the English language, to reach educators and policy makers, and empower them further in the research processes which inform British education policy.     

AdaSL: An Unsupervised Domain Adaptation framework for Arabic multi-dialectal Sequence Labeling

Dialectal Arabic (DA) refers to varieties of everyday spoken languages in the Arab world. These dialects differ according to the country and region of the speaker, and their textual content is constantly growing with the rise of social media networks and web blogs. Although research on Natural Language Processing (NLP) on standard Arabic, namely Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), has witnessed remarkable progress, research efforts on DA are rather limited. This is due to numerous challenges, such as the scarcity of labeled data as well as the nature and structure of DA. While some recent works have reached decent results on several DA sentence classification tasks, other complex tasks, such as sequence labeling, still suffer from weak performances when it comes to DA varieties with either a limited amount of labeled data or unlabeled data only. Besides, it has been shown that zero-shot transfer learning from models trained on MSA does not perform well on DA. In this paper, we introduce AdaSL, a new unsupervised domain adaptation framework for Arabic multi-dialectal sequence labeling, leveraging unlabeled DA data, labeled MSA data, and existing multilingual and Arabic Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs). The proposed framework relies on four key components: (1) domain adaptive fine-tuning of multilingual/MSA language models on unlabeled DA data, (2) sub-word embedding pooling, (3) iterative self-training on unlabeled DA data, and (4) iterative DA and MSA distribution alignment. We evaluate our framework on multi-dialectal Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging tasks.The overall results show that the zero-shot transfer learning, using our proposed framework, boosts the performance of the multilingual PLMs by 40.87% in macro-F1 score for the NER task, while it boosts the accuracy by 6.95% for the POS tagging task. For the Arabic PLMs, our proposed framework increases performance by 16.18% macro-F1 for the NER task and 2.22% accuracy for the POS tagging task, and thus, achieving new state-of-the-art zero-shot transfer learning performance for Arabic multi-dialectal sequence labeling.     

对体育科技期刊中阿拉伯数字写法的探讨

阿拉伯数字在体育科技期刊中使用率很高,它具有"笔画简单、结构科学、形象清晰、组数简短、一目了然"等特点.它的用法是否正确、是否规范统一,是衡量体育期刊质量高低的一个重要方面.文章中凡是使用数字的地方能用阿拉伯数字的,且又很得体的均应用阿拉伯数字表示.     

Reading Arabic texts: Effects of text type,reader type and vowelization

While much is known about Latin orthography little is known about Arabic orthography. This study investigates the effect of vowels on reading accuracy in Arabic orthography. Participants were 64 native Arabic speakers. Four kinds of written Arabic texts were administered: narrative, informative, poetic and Koranic. Three texts of each kind were presented in three reading conditions: correctly vowelized, unvowelized and wrongly vowelized. Results indicated that vowels had a significant effect on reading accuracy of poor and skilled readers in reading each of the four kinds of texts. The results are discussed in light of the concept that more cross-cultural considerations should be made in reading theory today.     

A field observation on the philosophy of teaching Islamic and Arabic studies

Implementation of conceptual educational practice. It educational policy in designing curriculum details stands as a basis of is for sure involved time and space factors to become comprehensive and constructive, especially for teaching Islamic and Arabic studies within modern educational challenges where its uniqueness values in nature should be remained untouched, while its methodological approaches should be updated and dynamic in addressing the peculiarity of modem society increasingly. Consequently, it＇s application and implementation in needs of some re-activation and adjustment to become more effective, productive and relevant. Popular and authorizations beliefs regarding educational contain have resulted in de facto Islamic and Arabic studies which largely reflect politically, rather than academically, realistically and effectively. In such a situation, it is vital to analyze the development of these policies and their implementation at a higher education.     

阿拉伯学生双音节词声调偏误分析

不同母语的学生学习汉语有不同的难处,因此对不同母语的学生教学难点和重点也就不同。在总结前人研究的基础上,文章对阿拉伯汉语初学者双音节词声调的偏误进行了一次较为系统的调查与分析。首先对比阿拉伯语和汉语两种不同语言的声调;然后设计双音节发音调查表并采集语音样本;接着运用Prrat语音软件来分析语音样本并进行偏误统计;最后根据统计的结果来分析偏误产生的原因并提出相应的训练对策。