RULAI Services

The services offered by the RUALI vary depending on the interests and needs of the researchers. Nevertheless, they can be divided into three categories: 

1.     Offering Consultation

One of the important functions that the unit offers is the consultative service for the scientific issues related to language education. To accomplish that mission, the unit depends on some of language experts in the institute itself and sometimes from other institutes inside the University or outside according to the regulating system.

2.     Carrying out Research

Carrying out research in different areas related to language education is one of the fundamental duties of the Unit. These research projects can be from within the Unit itself, from other departments at KSU, and from institutes outside KSU or even outside KSA in accordance with the regulating system.

3.     Publication

The unit supervises publication of scientific research. A researcher can apply to publish his/her research project before or after conducting it. If the application is successful, the Unit sends the research to be refereed and then publishes it within certain publication series.

 Publication Criteria and Instructions at RUALI

 All research papers published by RUALI are refereed in accordance with the regulating system of KSU. The Unit accepts research projects according to the following criteria:

1.     The research project should be in line with the regulating system and policies at KSU.

2.     The subject of the research should be related to linguistics, teaching foreign languages or education in general.

3.     The research should follow the principles of scientific research.

4.     Within the text, references are pointed to by using the family name of the author, the year of publication and the page number in parentheses and separated by a comma. References are to be listed at the end of the reseach paper in alphabetical order according to family (last) name of the first author followed by the rest of the information in accordance with the APA system.

5.     Authors should submit an original hard copy of the research paper together with three other hard copies and one softcopy in either a Microsoft Word format (.doc), or a Portable Document Format (.pdf).

6.     Authors should submit a short abstract written in English and another one in Arabic of up to 200 words each (+/- 10%). Each should include:

·        The title

·        Author/s and the institutions they belong to

·        The objectives, population, methodology and scope of the paper as well as the results achieved. 

 Summary

RUALI operates under the umbrella of the Deanship of Scientific Research at KSU. It seeks to assist researchers in different fields related to language and linguistics. The overall aim is to participate in building up the nation and the human civilization. Finally, the Unit invites all researchers to benefit from its services.