Rbrul

  On Wednesday, February 19, 2020, the Women's Scientific Research Committee of the Bachelor of Arts in English program organized a practical workshop on Rbrul by Dr. Khairia Ali Abu Dady, assistant professor of sociolinguistics.   Dr. Abu Dady started her presentation by reviewing the various uses of Rbrul in conducting different scientific studies. She specifically focused on the significance of the software in sociolinguistics and reviewed some valuable examples.   She then started the practical section of the workshop. First, she guided the participants to the installation steps of the software. Then she worked with them on data files. The workshop was very informative and introduced the participants to the use of Rbrul in conducting scientific research. It was attended by staff members and members of the scientific research committee.   Of noteworthy mention, Dr. Abu Dady conducted a Rbrul workshop during the first semester which was organized by the Language Research Center, where she provided an introduction to the software. Date: 2/21/2020 Source: Dr. Amal Metwally – Scientific Research Committee Coordinator

The Scientific Research Committee of the Faculty of Languages and Translation organized a two-hour workshop on Monday, April 9, 2018. The workshop was held to introduce staff members and MA students to Rbrul software. It was given by Dr. Khairia Abudadi where she delivered a presentation about Rbrul software. Dr. Khairia practically explained the material and the handouts distributed to the attendees. "Rbrul is a variable rule program that enables its users to plot, crosstab and run a regression analysis of the data,” Dr. Khairia said. She added, “the good thing about Rbrul is that once it’s up and running, it will ask you questions with multiple choice answers so that you don’t have to know the right things to type into R. Users don’t need to remember a large number of codes." Dr. Khairia talked about Rbrul installation, how to start using Rbrul, modeling and excel sheets. The attendees asked many questions, and they asked Dr. Khairia to organize another practical session to begin using the software. Among the attendees were Dr. Salma Al-Qahtani, the vice dean, and Dr. Mona Alsheri, the head of the department. They enriched the discussion with their comments and their background experience in the field. The scientific research committee thanked all participants for attending this workshop and will announce the next session in the near future. Date: 10/4/2018 Source: Amal Metwally – Scientific Research Committee Coordinator