The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes of 247 Algerian college students at a technical institute toward the use of English as the sole medium of instruction, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) as the language of instruction instead, or an MSA/English bilingual approach…
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The problem. The Afghan language is a transmitter of the Afghan culture. Therefore, the loss Of the Afghan language equals the loss of the Afghan culture. During my voluntary service in a mosque with Afghan children, I learned that the children were thinking in English and even …
The research questions of this study focused around exploring EFL speaking international students' perceptions regarding participation and social presence in face-to-face classroom and web-based forum, and the characteristics of web-based communication that encouraged and discou…
The Communicative Approach to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) is currently the most popular approach in Southeast Asian countries. Its use by English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers has been recommended by the Ministry of Education and Culture in Indonesia for…
In this dissertation, I focus on the creation of the discourse of integration within Israeli political and educational spheres during the years 1970–1980. The main research questions deal with the processes in which “integration” came to be the discourse of ethnicity. I asked ho…
The rapid growth of the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) students in public schools of the United States has been steady in the past decades. Issues concerning CLD students such as their school failures, high dropout rates, the limited English proficiency, family pove…
This study was conducted to understand what emigrant Iranian women experience as they entered and progressed in their academic and professional environments. Research objectives were to identify and articulate aspects of the educational and professional experience of professiona…
The end of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution ushered in a new era in China. The Chinese government abandoned the previous assimilative ethnic policy and adopted a pluralist policy and a multicultural education policy to promote cultural diversity. However, if the plurali…
This study explored the relationship between the bilingual/bicultural condition of children who speak English as their second language and performance variations in intelligence tests. The WISC-III and the K-ABC were selected. Children who have limited exposure to the mainstream…
For the first time in over 450 years Palestinians control their educational destiny. This study was initiated to identify the core cultural values that leading educators in Palestine consensually believe should guide philosophy and practice in their new educational system. Twent…
Proverbs and sayings, forms of figurative language, exist in the lexicon of the native speaker and occur in both spoken and written language. This study, focusing on the question of how familiar non-native speakers of English are with proverbs, aims to investigate the factors th…
Throughout American history, people have come to the United States to escape intolerable conditions elsewhere and to seek a better life. After the collapse of the South Vietnamese government, hundreds of thousands of persons fled to Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines…
This study investigates cultural simulation as a means of teaching culture and reducing cultural bias in children. Research on perseverance effects, the tendency of subjects to cling to erroneous beliefs, as well as on the process by which children establish racial attitudes, po…
This study involved an ethnographic investigation of a bilingual program designed to improve the academic success and promote the self-esteem of Turkish children in Denmark. Although listed as Turkish nationals, a significant proportion of students enrolled in the program were o…
This foundational qualitative study examined the history, meanings and practices of academic freedom at Arab universities. Eight professors who had experience teaching at Arab universities and one university president were interviewed. Results indicated that Arab higher educatio…
The study used qualitative and quantitative techniques to investigate Arab university students' motivation for studying English as a foreign language, attitudes toward studying English and the English language, attitudes toward Americans and the United States, and future expecta…
The purpose of this study is to analyze the dynamics of politics and the arts in the formative stages of Senegal's cultural and political development under the leadership of President Leopold Sedar Senghor and President Abdou Diouf. President Senghor, a poet-politician, pursued …
For many years, Africa was referred to as the Dark Continent, because many Westerners could not look into the lifestyles and mysteries that might exist there. Superstitions about Africans were common, causing many outsiders to think of Africans as being somewhat less than human.…
The purpose of this paper is to check the integration of young immigrants from Ethiopian origin, studying in the 12th grade in the boarding schools of Alyat Hanoar during the year 1997. The paper will cover the following fields: the social and didactic fields referring also to s…