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The questionnaire below is part of the project for my MSc research in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds, England. The main objective of this project is to develop a general corpus of Modern Standard Arabic, spoken and written. It is hoped that a corpus of this sort will be useful in a whole range of ways. It can be used as a source of authentic material for TAFL (Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language). It will provide material for conducting linguistic research and studying the main features of the different genres. It will offer a source for material writing. And it will be used for language engineering applications. In this questionnaire I am asking teachers as well as language engineers to think about and comment on varieties of texts they use in class and for constructing language programs. Your views are valuable as the design of this corpus will be based on the information obtained from this questionnaire. Remember that all the information you provide will be kept entirely confidential. Please take a few minutes to answer my questions.

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Section I:

Contact Information:

Name of Company/Institution:

Nature of Business:

Approximate Number of Employees:

Role within Company/Institution:

Contact Name:

EMail:

Section II:

1. Indicate the usefulness of the following items in your teaching and language engineering.

Text Type	Very useful	Useful	Not useful
Written
Fiction
Short stories
Children's stories
Teenage novels
Arts
Autobiography/Biography
Sociology (Social Issues)
Education
Sciences
Health and Medicine
Economics
Geography
Scientific Documents
Business Documents
Business Letters
Patents
User Manuals
Calls for Tender
Application forms
Memos
Technical Documents
Legal Documents
Academic Papers
Instruction Manuals
Internet Company Documents
Financial Documents
Miscellaneous
Advertisements
Plays
Magazines
Poetry
Recipes
Restaurant menus
Fashion
Tourist/Travel information
Formal Letters
Newspaper Articles
Web Pages
Emails
Entertainments
Sports
Religion
Spoken
Television programmes
Radio programmes
Conversation

2. What other material can you suggest?

</font></p> <p><font color="#cc0066">3. Do you have any computer readable Arabic texts which you or your company/institution could contribute to this corpus?</font></p> <p><font color="#cc0066"> <input name="yes" value="radiobutton" type="radio" /> Yes<br /> <input name="no" value="radiobutton" type="radio" /> No<br /> </font></p> <p><font color="#cc0066">4. If yes, please give details of text type and its amount.</font></p> <p><font color="#cc0066"> <b> <textarea name="texttypeAmount" cols="60" /> </b></font></p> <p><font color="#cc0066"><b><font size="+1">Section III:</font></b></font></p> <p><font color="#cc0066" size="+1">If you are a language engineer, please answer the question below:</font></p> <p><font color="#cc0066">5. What potential applications do you see for this corpus?</font></p> <p> <font color="#cc0066"> <input name="DevMT" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Developing Machine Translation<br /> <input name="EvaMT" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Evaluating Machine Translation<br /> <input name="InformEXSys" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Information Extraction Systems<br /> <input name="DevArTextPrSys" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Developing Arabic Text Processing Systems<br /> <input name="EvaArTxtProSys" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Evaluating Arabic Text Processing Systems<br /> <input name="GrCheck" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Grammar Checkers<br /> <input name="SpeechRecg" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Speech Recognition<br /> <input name="SpeeProd" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Speech Production<br /> <input name="txtToSpeechPro" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Text to Speech Processing<br /> <input name="SpeeToTXTPro" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Speech to Text Processing<br /> </font> <font color="#cc0066"> <input name="Other" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Other (please specify)</font> <font color="#cc0066"> <input name="specify7" id="specify7" size="50" type="text" /> </font></p> <p><font color="#cc0066" size="+1">If you are a language teacher, please answer the rest of the questions:</font></p> <h2><font color="#cc0066" size="+1">Background Information</font></h2> <p><font color="#cc0066">First Language: <input name="FirstLang3" type="text" /> </font></p> <p><font color="#cc0066">Second language: <input name="SecLang" type="text" /> </font></p> <p> </p> <p><font color="#cc0066"><b><font size="+1">Work Experience</font></b></font></p> <p><font color="#cc0066">6. Type(s) of institution(s) where you do most of your TAFL – related work (select as many as applicable): <br /> <input name="Adult" type="checkbox" /> Adult education <br /> <input name="elementary" type="checkbox" /> Elementary <br /> <input name="highschool" type="checkbox" /> High school <br /> <input name="refugee" type="checkbox" /> Refugee <br /> <input name="University" type="checkbox" /> University (undergrad) <br /> <input name="Beginners" type="checkbox" /> Beginners <br /> <input name="intermediate" type="checkbox" /> Intermediate <br /> <input name="advanced" type="checkbox" /> Advanced <br /> <input name="UniversityGrad" type="checkbox" /> University (grad) <br /> <input name="Other2" type="checkbox" /> Other (please specify) <input name="specify2" id="specify7" size="50" type="text" /> </font></p> <p><font color="#cc0066">7. How many years of TAFL have you done in the following countries?</font></p> <table border="0" width="75%"> <tbody> <tr> <td><font color="#cc0066"><strong>Place</strong></font></td> <td><font color="#cc0066"><strong>Length</strong></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font color="#cc0066">Europe</font></td> <td><font color="#cc0066"> <select name="select"> <option value="Please Select">Please Select</option> <option value="Less than 1 year">Less than 1 year</option> <option value="2-4 Years">2-4 Years</option> <option value="4-8 Years">4-8 Years</option> <option value="8+ Years">8 + Years</option> </select> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font color="#cc0066">North America</font></td> <td><font color="#cc0066"> <select name="select2"> <option value="Please select">Please select</option> <option value="Less than 1 year">Less than 1 year</option> <option value="2-4 years">2-4 years</option> <option value="4-8 years">4-8 years</option> <option value="8+years">8+years</option> </select> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font color="#cc0066">South America</font></td> <td><font color="#cc0066"> <select name="select3"> <option value="Please select">Please select</option> <option value="Less than 1 year">Less than 1 year</option> <option value="2-4 years">2-4 years</option> <option value="4-8 years">4-8 years</option> <option value="8+years">8+years</option> </select> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font color="#cc0066">Middle East</font></td> <td> <font color="#cc0066"> <select name="select4"> <option value="Please Select">Please Select</option> <option value="Less than 1 year">Less than 1 year</option> <option value="2-4 Years">2-4 Years</option> <option value="4-8 Years">4-8 Years</option> <option value="8+ Years">8 + Years</option> </select> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font color="#cc0066">North Africa</font></td> <td> <font color="#cc0066"> <select name="select5"> <option value="Please select">Please select</option> <option value="Less than 1 year">Less than 1 year</option> <option value="2-4 years">2-4 years</option> <option value="4-8 years">4-8 years</option> <option value="8+years">8+years</option> </select> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font color="#cc0066">Asian Countries</font></td> <td> <font color="#cc0066"> <select name="select6"> <option value="Please select">Please select</option> <option value="Less than 1 year">Less than 1 year</option> <option value="2-4 years">2-4 years</option> <option value="4-8 years">4-8 years</option> <option value="8+years">8+years</option> </select> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font color="#cc0066">Other</font></td> <td> <font color="#cc0066"> <select name="select7"> <option value="Please select">Please select</option> <option value="Less than 1 year">Less than 1 year</option> <option value="2-4 year">2-4 year</option> <option value="4-8 years">4-8 years</option> <option value="8+years">8+years</option> </select> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <font color="#cc0066"> </font></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> </p> <p><font color="#cc0066">8. What sort of material have you used in teaching?</font></p> <p> <font color="#cc0066"> <input name="Textbooks" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Textbooks<br /> <input name="Newspapers" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Newspapers<br /> <input name="Magazines" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Magazines <br /> <input name="Internet material" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Internet material<br /> <input name="Other5" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Other (please specify) <input name="specify6" id="specify62" size="50" type="text" /> <br /> </font></p> <p><font color="#cc0066"> 9. What is the average age of the learners?</font></p> <p> <font color="#cc0066"> <input name="16-18" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> 16-18<br /> <input name="18-20" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> 18-20<br /> <input name="20-25" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> 20-25<br /> <input name="Above" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Above <br /> </font></p> <p><font color="#cc0066"> 10. What types of equipment, materials, and facilities are available for teaching?</font></p> <p> <font color="#cc0066"> <input name="Audio" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Audio<br /> <input name="Video materials" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Video materials<br /> <input name="Computers" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Computers<br /> <input name="OHP" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> OHP<br /> <input name="Other" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Other (please specify) <input name="specify3" id="specify7" size="50" type="text" /> </font></p> <p> </p> <p><font color="#cc0066"> 11. What reasons do the learners have for studying Arabic? </font></p> <p> <font color="#cc0066"> <input name="InterestLang" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Interest in the language<br /> <input name="Career" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Career Opportunities<br /> <input name="InterestArab" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Interest in the Arab World<br /> <input name="Religion" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Religion<br /> <input name="Other" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Other (please specify) <input name="specify4" id="specify7" size="60" type="text" /> </font></p> <p> </p> <p><font color="#cc0066"> 12. Do you approve of teaching different registers of the target language? </font></p> <p><font color="#cc0066"><br /> <input name="yes" value="radiobutton" type="radio" /> Yes<br /> <input name="no" value="radiobutton" type="radio" /> No</font></p> <p><font color="#cc0066">13. If yes, for which level?</font></p> <p> <font color="#cc0066"> <input name="ElementaryL" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Elementary Level<br /> <input name="IntermediateL" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Intermediate Level<br /> <input name="AdvancedL" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Advanced Level<br /> <input name=" AllLevels" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> All Levels<br /> <input name="Other" value="checkbox" type="checkbox" /> Other (please specify) <input name="specify5" id="specify7" size="50" type="text" /> </font></p> <p></p> <p><font color="#cc0066"> 14. What skills of Arabic do you teach? </font> </p> <p><font color="#cc0066"><br /> <input name="reading" type="checkbox" /> Reading <br /> <input name="grammar" type="checkbox" /> Grammar <br /> <input name="writing" type="checkbox" /> Writing <br /> <input name="listening" type="checkbox" /> Listening <br /> <input name="speaking" type="checkbox" /> Speaking </font> </p> <p><font color="#cc0066"> 15. What type of material do you use for teaching reading? <input name="TypReadMat" id="TypReadMat2" size="40" type="text" /> </font></p> <p><font color="#cc0066"> 16. What type of material do you use for teaching grammar? <input name="TypGramMat" id="TypGramMat2" size="40" type="text" /> </font></p> <p><font color="#cc0066"> 17. What type of material do you use for teaching writing? <input name="TypWrtMat" id="TypWrtMat2" size="40" type="text" /> </font></p> <p><font color="#cc0066"> 18. What type of material do you use for teaching listening? <input name="TypListnMat" id="TypListnMat2" size="40" type="text" /> </font></p> <p><font color="#cc0066"> 19. What type of material do you use for teaching speaking? <input name="TypspeakMat" id="TypspeakMat2" size="40" type="text" /> </font></p> <p><font color="#cc0066"><b>Thank you for taking the time to complete this questionnaire</b>.</font></p> <p><font color="#cc0066">Dr. Latifa Al-Sulaiti<br /> School of Computing<br /> University of Leeds<br /> Leeds LS2 9JT<br /> Tel:0113 - 3436818<br /> email: Latifa@comp.leeds.ac.uk</font></p> <p><font color="#cc0066"> </font> <font color="#cc0066"> <input name="Submit" value="Submit" type="submit" /> <input name="Submit2" value="Reset" type="reset" /> <br /> </font> </p> </form> <p><font color="#cc0066"> </font> </p> <form method="post" action="http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailform.cgi" /> <p>Last modified: January 13, 2005 6:15 PM </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p> </p> </body> </html>

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