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Investigating Reading Strategies in Government High Schools English Classes in Ras Al Khaimah
(2009-06)
Reading is a skill that involves more than decoding letters or recognizing words. It, in fact, integrates a variety of strategies, skills, and processes, and thus it is not as simple to describe as one might think. These ...
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 ...
Translation as image-making: a case of Mahfouz in English
(2009-11)
Dialect refers to a regional or social variety of language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary. It is well known that in literature, particularly in novels during dialogue, writers often use different ...
Explicit Vocabulary Learning Through Technology
(2009-06)
Functional language proficiency requires mastery of a large number of words. It is therefore necessary for L2 learners to learn a large vocabulary in a short period of time. In classroom contexts, there appears to be no ...
Translating English Euphemisms into Arabic: Challenges and Strategies
(2009-05)
The aim of this thesis is to examine the theoretical and practical issues that arise in the translation of euphemisms from English into Arabic. Euphemisms are words or stretches of words used in various forms of discourse ...
Impact of English on Young Arabs' Use of Arabic in the UAE
(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 ...
Interlanguage Morphophonology: Can Persistent Errors be Overcome?
(2009-12)
EFL speakers need clear and intelligible speech to make their communication more successful. Good pronunciation is essential for speakers to communicate their ideas and understand others easily. Whether second language ...
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 ...
Ideology in the Language of the Press from the Perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis in English/Arabic Translation
(2009-11)
Due to the excessive weight placed on language as a formal system, traditional linguistics has not proved to be of much help to translation practice or translation theory. Much more productive are models of language that ...
Mobile Robot Trajectory Tracking Using Neural Networks
(2009-12)
This work primarily addresses the design and implementation of a neural network based controller for the trajectory tracking of a differential drive mobile robot. Two different neural network based tracking control algorithms ...