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Arab Students' Attitudes Toward Western Culture and Motivation to Learn English
Sadek, Gihane Ibrahim (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 ... -
Educators' and Parents' Attitudes Towards Code Switching By Arab Bilinguals: Pedagogical Implications
Dhaouadi, Habiba Hanini (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 ... -
Enhancing Students' Growth in Reading by Developing their Reading Strategies
Makni, Fawzi (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 ... -
The Impact of CLIL on Arabic, English and Content Learning of Arab High School Students in the UAE
Younes, Marwa I. A. (2016-05)The present study investigated the impact of the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach, as applied in a private school in the UAE, on students' L2 learning, L1 knowledge and content learning. It also ... -
Impact of English on Young Arabs' Use of Arabic in the UAE
Hanani, Fatiha (2009-12)English language education has become a vital part of many educational systems in the world. In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the official language is Arabic, but with the diversity of the population, English is used as ... -
Important Factors to Consider for Bilingual Education in the UAE
Hamidaddin, Hoda AlHussain (2008-06)Despite the great number of schools which claim to foster bilingualism in the UAE, the voices of many educators and parents in the media reflect the difficulties that these schools face in trying to provide balanced bilingual ... -
Lexical Cohesive Devices in Arab Students' Academic Writing: Implications for Teaching Vocabulary
El-Gazzar, Nevine Kamal (2006-05)This study investigated the use of English lexical cohesive devices by 40 undergraduate Arab students enrolled in advanced academic writing classes at the American University of Sharjah. The data were quantitatively analyzed ... -
Professional Development for Teachers of English in the UAE
Al Neaimi, Jehan Ahmed (2007-01)Because of the importance of professional development in the improvement of teaching and education, and the importance of English as a language and subject of study in the UAE, this study focused on English teachers' ... -
The Role of Culture in Teaching English as an International Language in the Arabian Gulf: A Case Study
Dahan, Laila (2005-12)English as an International Language (EIL) has become the lingua franca of the world today. An important factor of this widespread use of English is the fact that most people speaking the language today are not native ... -
Teachers' and Students' Practices and Attitudes Toward Arabic (L1) Use in ELT
Qadri, Tahani (2006-06)The debate over whether or not English language classrooms should include the students' first language has been a controversial issue for a long time. Findings in research reveal two opposing views: On one end of the ... -
Topic Familiarity and Lexical Inferential Strategies in Advanced Emirati ESL Learners
Klykova, Lyudmyla Vitaliyivna (2008-08)The present study investigated the effect of background knowledge on lexical inferencing and which strategies advanced Emirati ESL learners used to help them infer the meanings of unfamiliar vocabulary items in context. ... -
UAE English Skills: A Textbook Evaluation
Al Falasi, Hessa Ghanem (2008-01)National English textbooks are considered to be the main element of the English language curriculum at government schools in the UAE. Tens of thousands of students studying at these schools depend on national textbooks for ...