Browsing by College/Dept "College of Arts and Sciences"
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50 Signs of Mental Illness: Translation and Commentary
(2013-07)This thesis deals with the translation and investigation of the most appropriate translation strategies and approaches to use when translating texts of psychological nature. Three chapters of the book entitled 50 Signs of ... -
Additive Cyclic Codes Over Rings
(2015-02)This Master's thesis introduces a reader with an average knowledge of mathematics to coding theory. A background in algebra is included with the required details needed in coding theory. The thesis guides the reader from ... -
Addressing Language Errors in L2 Students' Writing: Can Corpora Help?
(2011-06)Direct corpus consultation by learners has been recognized as a means of helping students speak and write standard English by allowing them to look up real world language usage. However, factors such as students' language ... -
Addressing the Translation into English of near Synonymy in the Holy Qur'an
(2017-03)It is now fairly well-established that complete synonymy is almost non-existent in any language, as it is not easy to find two words with the same denotations and/or connotations. On the other hand, near synonymy is plentiful ... -
Agency, Politics, and Media Translation in Saudi Arabia
(2016-11)The aim of this thesis is to explore the interconnection between politics, the media, and translation with particular reference to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Agency and politics play an important role in both media ... -
Ajaaj and National Identity: A Comic Book with a Serious Mission
(2009-10)Translation is often influenced by its social, political and cultural context. These factors soon begin to define the very concept of translation, its role, directions and traditions down to the strategies adopted by the ... -
Alternating Direction Implicit Method for the Electro-Cardiology Models
(2017-05)Electrophysiology is an area of science that led to innovative experimentations between clinicians and scientists. Studying and understanding cardiac dynamics plays a key role in designing therapies, preoperative planning, ... -
And the Mountains Echoed: Translation and Commentary
(2014-07)Many world-famous authors owe a significant portion of their fame to the unsung heroes of literary translation. This thesis explores issues related to literary translation by translating a literary text and providing a ... -
Arab Culture in Translation: From Exoticism to Terrorism
(2016-05)The 9/11 attacks placed the Arab and Islamic World at the center of a global attention characterized by the negativity of an old inherited conception. While portraying Arabs and Muslims again within a clash of civilizations ... -
Arab Students' Attitudes Toward Western Culture and Motivation to Learn English
(2007-01)Motivation is a central component for students learning a second language. Attitude towards the target language, its culture, and its people have been proved to have a significant bearing on the motivational orientation ... -
Arabic Brand Names: To Translate or Transliterate?
(2014-01)The thesis examines the process of brand naming and brand translation, focusing on three models: Dubai, Sharjah and Saudi Arabia. In terms of brand naming and translation method, these three places illustrate different ... -
Arabic to English Translation of Islamic Religious Texts
(2006-04)This thesis investigates discourse strategies adopted in the translation of religious texts from Arabic into English. Such texts pose serious challenges for translators because of the orality found in Arabic religious texts ... -
Arabicization of IT Service Management Terminology (ITSM): Introduction to ITIL as a Case Study
(2014-03)As a result of continuous advancements in the field of Information Technology (IT), many concepts are being introduced. Given that most renderings focused on subfields including: web technologies, applications, and other ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
