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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Arab students"”.
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An Educational "Clip": Arab Students' Experiences of Curriculum in a U.S. University
… and power struggle -"CLIP"- depicting three Arab students who have attended or are currently attending a University in the rural South East Region of the United States of America (circa 2009-2010) When Arab students go to college in the United States of America, two cultural extremities (East …
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Linguistic, Educational and Cultural Difficulties That May Affect Arab Students' English Language Proficiency
… the undergraduates, who were also the younger students who had been studying in the United States for fewer years and performed lower academically, felt less strongly about their perceptions of the linguistic-cultural influences. Whereas, the graduate students, who were older and had been …
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ARAB STUDENTS' DIFFICULTIES WITH ENGLISH WRITING DURING THEIR TRANSITION TO THE UNITED STATES: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY
Many research studies have been conducted in Arab countries to examine the difficulties that Arab students encounter in learning English writing. Unfortunately, not much of that scholarship deals with the challenges that these second language learners face when they pursue degrees abroad. …
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When stories mirror identity: exploring the social and emotional response of Arab students to a culturally relevant text
… phenomenological research study explores how Arabic multilingual students from the Levant region experienced a culturally relevant text (CRT) that reflected their cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop’s (1990) theory of how books can be mirrors, windows, and sliding glass …
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Essays on Academic Achievement and Student Behavior in Public Schools
… behavior, and negative external shocks to the students' living environment. I examine the impacts of various treatments on student short and long run academic outcomes such as math and English test scores, grade retention, special education diagnoses, as well as high school graduation. Each …
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Teachers’ guide towards a contrastive analysis of Arabic and English.
… work in the field of FL teaching in relation to Arabic students learning English. Numerous works highlight the constant grammatical errors made by Arab students due to negative MT interference, which suggests the need for practical solutions to help teachers overcome this difficulty. Therefore …
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A typological model for text-structure processing : implications for the pedagogy of teaching with reference to translation (Arabic-English)
… thesis starts with the postulate that advanced Arabstudents are generally «good» at the level of sentenceformation and context free semantics of English, but who are «poor» when it comes to appropriately structuringinformation as texts.In an attempt to help such a student population, in thefirst …
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The effect of classroom instruction on students' reading achievement in English
… andreading achievement. Two groups of Arab students enroled inthe English language studies course in the United ArabEmirates University were randomly assigned to one of twoinstructional techniques; a content English method (CE) anda general English method (6E). Students were observed …
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The productive and receptive knowledge of collocations by advanced Arabic-speaking ESL/EFL learners
… a number of previous studies have reported students' lack of collocational competence and the difficulties they encounter in learning and using collocations. The present study examines the productive and receptive knowledge of lexical and grammatical collocations among advanced …
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Interaction, educational background and identity: Arab women learning English in the UK.
… many of whom have childcare responsibilities. Arab women form a large proportion of the ESOL population, and often come from diverse backgrounds; some with high-level academic qualifications from their home countries and others who never attended a school. Despite these stark differences, what …
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The development of an adaptive environment (framework) to assist the teaching, learning and assessment of geography within the Omani secondary education system
… the Basic Education (BE) system stipulated that students should receive training in information technology (IT) and English from Year One. These provisions were implemented from academic year 1998/1999, so that by the commencement of academic year 2010/2011 three cohorts of students had received …
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A comparative study of Arabic and Japanese
… honorific systems, number, and gender of Arabic and Japanese. One of the purposes of this thesis is to introduce Japanese and Arabic from the viewpoints of each other. It is true that research has been done about each of them separately, but not much has been done about them together. …
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From text to context: Literacy practices of native speakers of Arabic in Arabic and English
… at the written product of native speakers of Arabic in their second language (L2), English, have identified traces of Arabic rhetoric (L1), mainly Classical Arabic, in their writing (e.g., Atari, 1983; Kaplan, 1966; Ostler, 1987). These studies focused primarily on the L2-written texts, where …