Currently, we are in partnership with Al-Ashrafieh academy, within which students receive English as a foreign language. It was meant to research syntactic comprehension by Arab EFL learners. The partnership will enable us to do in-depth research on the unique challenges Arabic speakers have while learning about the syntax of the English language. Performance and linguistic pattern analyses by the said students will enable us to devise helpful teaching methodologies to suit their needs. This research is supposed to explain many aspects of English grammar, such as word order, verb tenses, and complicated sentence structures, which are quite different from Arabic. Our findings will be helpful not only for students in Al-Ashrafieh Academy but also for people dealing with second language acquisition and might improve the teaching of English for Arabic-speaking people all over the world. This new partnership will therefore allow us to bridge the gap between linguistics oriented towards theory and language teaching oriented towards practice with the aim of offering an improved learning situation for Arab EFL students.
Moreover, the Experimental Syntax Research Group, in close cooperation with the Nazik Al Hariri Welfare Centre for Special Education in Amman, has launched joint research into the specificities of syntactic comprehension in special educational needs children. It examines how syntactic structures are processed and comprehended by children across a wide spectrum of developmental disorders, furthering insights into language acquisition in non-typical populations. This group performs structured activities using experimental tools such as PsychoPy and linguistic corpora in the investigation of comprehension and production of languages. In close collaboration with the center, they will make sure that research is under ethical standards while at the same time contributing much-needed knowledge to the field of syntax and language learning; hence, better approaches to educational methodologies are developed for special needs learners.