Browsing by College/Dept "Department of English"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Cultural Schema and Reading Comprehension: A Means to an End
(2006-08)Studies on good readers have identified a number of reading comprehension strategies to be highly useful. These strategies range from the simple to the complex. A strategy that has been recommended by cognitive scientists ... -
Culture in English Language Classrooms: Emirati Students' and UAE Teachers' Perceptions
(2011-05)Many studies have shown that teaching and learning about culture is beneficial for learning a second language. It helps in building up the four language skill, such as reading, writing, speaking, listening, and cultural ... -
Culture in Simultaneous Interpreting of Political Discourse: Obama's Speech in Cairo
(2010-05)Political speeches, especially at times of international crises, play an important role in aiding or obstructing world peace. This is particularly valid for Western/Arab and Muslim relations. Inappropriate renditions (in ... -
Culture in the EFL Classroom: Western Instructions and Arab Students in the UAE
(2013-12)In the field of EFL teaching, it is common for instructors and students to come from very different cultural backgrounds. Instructors who leave their home countries and go to teach abroad may have trouble adjusting to the ... -
Discourse Effects on the Acquisition of the English Causative Forms: Structured Input vs. Structured Output Practice.
(2020-05)This research presents the results of a quasi-experimental empirical study investigating the effects of structured input activities and structured output tasks on the acquisition of English causative forms. The study is ... -
Educators' and Parents' Attitudes Towards Code Switching By Arab Bilinguals: Pedagogical Implications
(2006-05)This study explores educators' and parents' attitudes towards the phenomenon of Arabic-English code switching (CS) in the culturally and linguistically diverse context of the UAE. Arabic-English language mixing is a ... -
Effective Teachers of Academic Writing in an EFL Context: Students and Teachers Beliefs
(2016-01)In the field on EFL academic writing, the teacher plays a pivotal role in the success of the learning process. This research aimed at investigating the characteristics that constitute an effective academic writing instructor, ... -
The Effects of Emotional Decoding on Eliciting Empathic Responses in Language Teachers: An Idiodynamic Case Study
(2020-05)This thesis explores the effects of emotional decoding on enhancing the empathetic responses of a male in-service English second language (ESL) teacher as its case study. Although research has validated the positive ... -
ELT Teachers' Perspectives on the Discussion of Culturally Sensitive Topics in the United Arab Emirates
(2017-05)This study examines secondary school teachers' perceptions towards the discussion of culturally sensitive topics in three private schools that are located in the Emirate of Ajman, the Emirate of Dubai and the Emirate of ... -
English Language Testing on iPads: Advantages and Disadvantages
(2015-12)Recently, tablet computers, such as iPads, have been incorporated into many school curricula, and studies have been conducted to explore the effectiveness of iPads as educational tools. This study goes one step further and ... -
Enhancing Students' Growth in Reading by Developing their Reading Strategies
(2006-08)Research on reading comprehension has shown that proficient readers are those who construct meaning on their own using effective higher level reading skills and strategies. Also, reading researchers argue that effective ...
