Browsing by College/Dept "College of Arts and Sciences"
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Arabs from a Japanese Perspective: Cultural Representation and Translation
(2015-10)Identifying similarities and differences between cultures results in the creation of certain images and representations. This thesis explores the role of translation in creating cultural images within the context of a ... -
Assessing Translation Quality of Polemical Texts
(2015-05)How to assess the quality of the translation and what criteria to be used for evaluating it, has always been a problematic issue in translation studies. Nevertheless, there is nowadays an unprecedented agreement on the ... -
Assessment Through Student Portfolios in Omani Schools
(2006-06)Why do Omani teachers not use student portfolios as effective alternative tools of assessment? Why do they only depend on traditional testing to evaluate students progress in the English language? Although the Ministry ... -
Audio Visual Translation: Subtitling Pragmatic Features
(2006-12)Globally, this is the age of mass communications, of multimedia experience and a world where audiences demand the right to share the text, be it film, song , or book simultaneously across cultures" Bassnett (cited in ... -
AUS Student Writers' Use of Clauses: Support for the Contrastive Rhetoric Hypothesis?
(2009-12)Different theories exist regarding the characteristics of academic writing in English by students of other L1s. In 1966 Robert Kaplan proposed the contrastive rhetoric hypothesis, which has evolved over the years into the ... -
Bootstrap-based Aggregations and their Stability in Feature Selection
(2022-06)With the rapid development of technology and the Internet, datasets have grown increasingly larger in size and dimensionality. As a result, feature selection has become a critical reprocessing tool in machine learning ... -
The Building Blocks of Business Contracts’ Recitals: A Corpus-Induced Approach to Assessing Homogeneity
(2022-12)By following a bottom-up approach based on principles of induction, the current study aims to provide the most typical lexical units of the provisional element of recitals in business contracts. In doing so, a novel ... -
CEFR in UAE Public Schools: Pedagogical Impacts
(2017-01)The Ministry of Education (MOE) in Dubai used the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) to develop the English Curriculum Framework (ECF) in 2011 - a framework that was piloted in 39 Madares Al Ghad (MAG) Schools ... -
Cheating by Students in English Tests in Private Schools in the UAE: Cheating Techniques and Teacher/Administrator Responses
(2009-12)Cheating has recently become an increasingly discussed problem in the field of academia. It is a common behavior of some students at schools, which concerns ESL/EFL teachers in educational settings. Cheating has developed ... -
Child Educational Psychology: Translation and Commentary
(2014-05)This thesis explores the problems associated with translating the discourse of child educational psychology. To this end, the thesis includes a translation from English into Arabic and a Commentary of two selected chapters ... -
Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech: Translation and Commentary
(2016-12)Although Winston Churchill wrote some of the greatest speeches of the twentieth century, few of those speeches or only fragments of them have been translated into Arabic. This thesis is a translation and commentary of one ... -
Coherence in the Translation of Al-Ghazali's: Al-Munqidh Min Ad-Dalal
(2011-06)This thesis discusses translators' sensitivity towards argumentative classical texts. One major assumption this research intends to question is the ongoing debate of "translation as a cohesive string of words" vs. "translation ... -
Cohesion and Coherence in Translation
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Cohesion in Arabic Subtitling
(2016-12)This study explores the translation of substitution and ellipsis as cohesive devices in English based on the framework of cohesion by Halliday and Hasan (1976) which categorizes cohesion into five different taxonomies; ... -
Collaboration: The Key to Successful Business English Course Development
(2019-12)In the dynamic nature of business, effective communication skills are mandatory through all pathways to success. Day by day, more educational institutions are investing in the development of their learners’ communication ... -
A Comparative Study between Modals in ESL/EFL Tertiary Textbooks and Actual Use by EFL Teachers
(2008-06)Teaching English modals to young adult and adult learners of English as a foreign language (EFL learners) is pedagogically a challenging task because some ESL/EFL tertiary textbooks do not present modals and their uses ... -
Comparison of Whole-class Discussion and Task-based Activity: A Small-Scale Study
(2020-05)This study examined the participation patterns and effectiveness of two different sets of materials applied with two different treatments: Treatment 1 consisted of a Task-based activity; Treatment 2 used a whole-class ... -
The Constraints of the Arabic Subtitled Film
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Contextual Emphasis in the Holy Quran and its Translation into English
(2016-11)This thesis tackles the translation of emphasis in the Holy Quran. To achieve this aim, relevant translation theories are invoked, and the context of the Quranic text carefully examined. The use of emphatic devices (my ... -
Coping with Neologisms in English / Arabic Translation
(2009-04)This thesis explores the strategies Arab translators use when dealing with English new terms (neologisms) that do not readily have apparent equivalents in Arabic. The techniques or strategies, which will be identified in ...