This thesis sheds light on two of the most heavily contested concepts in social sciences and sociolinguistics: ‘community’, in its inter-relation with ‘language’. I draw on the example of Arabic in Manchester, UK, to develop a comprehensive ethnographic approach to studying ‘lan…
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There is no doubt that poetry is a mirror of the society where it is composed, Poetry is neither new in Nigeria nor in the Ilorin Emirate even though history did not specify a particular time for its emergence. Since literature in general and poetry in particular as part of soci…
This study is about "The Intellectual and Literary Transformations among veteran poets, in the early era of Islam, where the poet Kaab bin Zuhair Atypical". It is based on his Diwan. As for the choice of the word transformations only, because the linguistic dimension of this wor…
ال مندوحة للباحث يف اللغة العربية من الوقوف ىلع القرآن الكريم، ذروة ابلالغة وأرفعها، وال غرو يف ذلك ً ألنه الكم اهلل، من جهود العلماء اذلين ما برحوا ينهلون من معينها وافرا ً وذلا فقد القت ابلالغة القرآنية حظا دوها َّ الصايف إىل أن رسموا حدودها وقع ، أتاح ملن بعدهم رؤية معاملها ود ً ف…
THE PROBLEM: Various learners of ESL have various problems regarding English pronunciation. Most languages have a five-vowel phonetic system and the complicated sixteen-vowel English phonetic system seems difficult to master for ESL learners. Moreover, ESL learners with Arabic L…
Limited schooling in the first language (L1) has allowed English Language Learners (ELLs) to face obstacles in their second language (L2) and science courses. Therefore, this study examines these variables in the following two hypotheses: (1) there is a significant relationship …
This thesis documents the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and its contribution to the learning experience of students studying Arabic as a foreign language. The goal of this project is to build an Intelligent Computer Assist…
One of the notable developments in current natural language processing is the practical efficacy of probabilistic word representations, where words are embedded in high-dimensional continuous vector spaces that are optimized to reflect their distributional relationships. For seq…
The Arabic language has been identified as a typical example of diglossia, meaning that two varieties of the same language exist and are used for socially different functions. The two varieties in the Arabic language are Literary Arabic (LA), and Spoken Arabic (SA). In the Arab …
When the Israeli state occupied the Palestinian Territories (West Bank and the Gaza Strip) in 1967, it gradually put restrictions on Palestinian movement in place. At first, Palestinians could easily circumvent these, but in the last 50 years these restrictions have become an in…
Why do nationalizing states, committed to preferential treatment of the dominant nation within the state, vary in their treatment of ethnic minorities? Why do some nationalizing states choose to simultaneously provide a certain degree of accommodation to their ethnic minorities …
The objective of this dissertation was to quantitatively study Iraqi students (N=90) who arrived in the U.S.A. in the last 20 years. A non-experimental, descriptive research design was used for this study, which took place in one of three high schools in a large Midwestern subur…
Recognizing the sounds around us is the first step humans take to develop reading skills. Children who are at risk of dyslexia have a weakness in differentiating between sounds that make up our language. Testing for phonological awareness, a crucial part of reading development, …
In this thesis we investigate the potential of developing a speech recognition system based on a recently introduced artificial neural network (ANN) technique, namely Reservoir Computing (RC). This technique has, in theory, a higher capability for modelling dynamic behaviour com…
The impact and dynamics of Internet-based resources for Arabic-speaking users is increasing in significance, depth and breadth at highest pace than ever, and thus requires updated mechanisms for computational processing of Arabic texts. Arabic is a complex language and as such r…
Most text mining techniques have been proposed only for English text, and even here, most research has been conducted on specific texts related to special contexts within the English language, such as politics, medicine and crime. In contrast, although Arabic is a widely spoken …
This thesis examines a crucial area in the translation of poetic discourse, the translatability of modern Arabic metaphor into English. Two main questions are addressed. Firstly, what makes a particular metaphor easy to translate? Secondly, what makes another metaphor difficult …
VIII./XIV. asırda İslâm dünyasının Moğollar’ın sebep olduğu tahribatları onarmaya çalıştığı bir zamanda yaşayan İbrahim el-Çârperdî, eğitimini Tebrîz’de aldıktan sonra Şam’a göç etmiş âlimlerdendir. İlhanlılar’ın başkenti Tebrîz’den hiç çıkmayan babası Ahmed el- Çârperdî ise İsl…
Bu çalışmanın amacı; çocuklara Arapçayı sevdirerek öğretmek için yaşlarına uygun etkinliklerle, eğlenceli bir dil eğitimi sunmanın yollarını araştırmaktır. Çalışma, küçük yaştaki öğrencilerin yabancı dile karşı çekincelerini gidermek, kendilerini özgüvenle ifade edebilecekleri e…