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Graduate student association

Interview with president of Graduate student association M. Abdullah Alghafes

1) What are the shared goals of the community? Why does this group exist? What does it do?

· Focusing on graduate students

· Help them with their academic life

· Offered the graduate students the academic assistant

· Make an activities for the graduate students like

· Help the graduate students to get a scholarship from the university

2) What mechanisms do members use to communicate with each other (meetings, phone calls, email, text messages, newsletters, reports, evaluation forms, etc.)?

-They are using 1- email

2- Face book

3- Twitter

4- cellphones (only emergence calls)

3) What are the purposes of each of these mechanisms of communication (i.e to improve performance, make money, grow better roses, share research, etc.)?

· They are using these mechanisms of communication because they believe that it will be easier for members to communicate with each other

4) Which of the above mechanisms of communication can be considered genres (textual responses to recurring situations that all group members recognize and understand)?

· Emails, because if they have any problem they can go back and check the emails between the members

5) What kinds of specialized language (lexis) do group members use in their conversation and in their genres (name some examples—ESL, on the fly, 86, etc.)? What communicative function does this lexis serve (i.e. why say “86” instead of “we are out of this”?)?

-board = executive board of the club

- Officer = the meeting between the members and the club advisor

-they have members using different languages like Arabic, French, Spanish,… to communicate with members because it’s an international club.

6) Who are “old-timers” with expertise? Who are the newcomers with less expertise? How do newcomers learn the appropriate language, genres, and knowledge of the group?

· The old members always trying to help the new members by teaching them the work rolls, tech them the specialized language, and keep them on the track.