This dissertation study expands the scope of study abroad research through the adoption of a second language socialization framework that highlights the role of an exceptional American graduate student’s metacognitive skills in developing her target language competence in a stud…
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Three sets of studies explore lexical regulation in bi- and trilinguals. Chapter 1 examines the foreign language effect (disproportionate interference between non-native languages) by conducting two experiments in which Dutch-English-French trilinguals monitor phonemes in pictur…
There is ample evidence of a leaky teaching pipeline, from attending high school, college, and teacher preparation programs to teaching in urban schools, which puts forth barriers for the success of the Hispanic population in a systemic way (Epstein, 2005; Irizarry & Donaldson, …
The predictive association between oral reading fluency and reading comprehension in English is well documented for students learning English as their first language (Shinn, Good III, Knutson, Tilly III, & Collins, 1992). To date, however, there is little research studying this …
This research examined how six female native Arabic-speaking English as a second language (ESL) graduate students at universities in the United States use cognitive strategies to understand unfamiliar academic vocabulary in texts from their own (either statistics or education), …
The purpose of this mixed-method study was to investigate how non-matriculated Chinese and Saudi students perceive their language learning experiences in an ESL context in a U.S. University. Specifically, it examines how each group perceives differences in language teaching meth…
Muslims in North America want to transmit the Islamic ideological and cultural heritage to their children, but attempts at developing curricula to do so have not always been successful, in part because of failure to understand the Muslims' perceptions of Islam. The problem has t…
The Arab American Institute's (AAI) role to achieve political empowerment for Arab Americans through political and citizenship education was investigated. The purpose of this qualitative study was to analyze the AAI's various educational activities in order to evaluate its role …
The main purpose of this study was to propose a pilot program for a model Student Counseling Program (SCP) for the American University of Beirut, the leading higher educational institution in the Middle Eastern country of Lebanon. Significant literature on the historical roots o…
This study was undertaken to explore the subjective, self-reported experience of single women in their fifties who felt positive about themselves and their lives. Twenty women who were divorced, separated, widowed, or never-married were interviewed in the United States, Great Br…
Language Interference is a problem in any second language learning environment. This study focuses on the French and Hebrew Language Interference errors committed by students in a Montreal Jewish Day School. Using the categories initiated by Adiv (1980) pre- and post-tests were …
The purpose of this study was to determine the degree to which selected cognitive and noncognitive variables affect academic success of students from the United Arab Emirates while studying in the United States during 1978-85. In addition the study was designed to investigate th…
Language and culture have been identified as important factors when one is considering school-based literacy. They become more important when issues relating to multicultural classrooms are discussed. In this situation, teachers are faced with the challenge of teaching linguisti…
The purpose of this dissertation was to develop a decentralized model of education for Pakistan. In Pakistan educational planning and administration are partially centralized to create a cohesive and economically integrated system. Educational planning in Pakistan takes off from…
A research study was conducted which investigated Americans' responses to different nonnative speakers depending on whether errors were present or absent in their speech. The purpose of the study was threefold: to examine the responses of Americans to nonnative speech, to analyz…
The content of social sciences and their role in society vary with the politics and culture of the societies in which they are practiced. Taking the case of tourism and social change as its the focus, this study explores (a) the factors which have shaped social science knowledge…
This thesis shows the importance of using literature as part of the English as a Second Language program in Malaysian high schools since presently, English literature is not part of the Malaysian schools' curriculum. In addition to showing the advantages of using literature in t…
The purpose of this study was to identify perceptions of Saudi students studying at Western Michigan University (WMU), faculty and administrators at WMU, and academic advisors in the Saudi Arabian Educational Mission in Chicago regarding academic problems encountered by Saudi st…