العلامة المفكر البروفسير عون الشريف قاسم السوداني: حياته وفكره ومؤلفاته

This research work emphasizes on the biography, publications and contributions of the Sudanese prominent scholar ‘Aun al-Sharif Qasim who born in the North of Al-Khartoum, the capital of the republic of Sudan in 1933 A.D. He wrote many books in Arabic language and his famous book “A Dictionary of Colloquial Dialect in Sudan” specially deals with the studies on the Sudanese Colloquial Arabic language and its impact on the literary Arabic language. Likewise he wrote in literature and language and enriched his scholastic life with many publications. This research work tries to convey the most important book and to give a short thought on it.

An Evaluation of English Language Teaching Course Offered by PAF Teacher's Training Institute Islamabad

A large part of the English teachers teaching at various schools across Pakistan have little or no sound knowledge of modern developments in English Language Teaching (ELT). Such teachers are partly to blame for the poor standard of ELT in Pakistan. Training such in service teachers is of utmost and immediate importance for two main reasons. First, it is the untrained fresh graduates who are employed as teachers. Second, Pakistani universities training graduates and post-graduates hardly provide any training in ELT. The research was undertaken to evaluate the English Language Teaching Course (ELTC) offered by PAF Teachers' Training Institute, Islamabad, with four main objectives: to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of ELTC, to assess the impact of ELTC on the teachers' skills, to find out the attitude of English language teachers and principals of PAF Fazaia schools towards in-service teachers' training, and suggest ways to improve language teachers' training courses in future. For this study, five PAF Fazaia schools, thirty English language teachers, five principals, and three master trainers were taken as samples. The director of the Institute was also included as a part of the study. Three questionnaires were designed: to know the views of English language teachers regarding the course, to find the masters trainers' views about the course and the teachers, and to study views of the principals heading PAF Fazaia schools. An interview was conducted to get the views of the director of the Institution. Three questionnaires and an interview brought the data which was statistically analyzed by using the formulae of Mean, Standard Deviation and Range. It is recommended that: the ELTC duration be increased, the courses be preferably conducted during summer vacations, the number of master trainers at Institute be increased, subject specialist in various fields of ELT be appointed, a language laboratory be established, the library be updated by including new books on ELT and providing the internet facility, a greater number of classes in phonetics and phonology be included in the time table, to obtain feedback from the principals of PAF Fazaia schools about the performance of trained teachers, some mechanism for the purpose be developed, for further research, greater number of institutions, students, teachers, master trainers be increased, and it is suggested that instead of questionnaire technique, classroom observation technique be used in future studies.