Full time Torah study in a yeshiva in Israel, once considered an exotic experience for a modern Orthodox high school graduate, is now a commonplace phenomenon in North American Jewish education. This study examined American modern Orthodox high school graduates before (N = 403) …
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This qualitative study explored, through a process of elicitation of awareness for teachability, the metacognitive strategies that fifth-grade elementary monolingual English-speaking students in a dual English and Hebrew language program are using in reading comprehension in the…
This study explores the linguistic landscape and sociolinguistic context of an expanding circle country, namely Mongolia. German, Korean, Japanese, and Turkish, in addition to English, Russian, and Chinese, are used by Mongolians to varying degrees, placing Mongolia in a unique …
This study investigated the reactions of American professors to the written prose of non-native speaking international students in their classes. The need for a clear understanding of the specific nature of the writing required in particular content areas has been recently stres…
This work on the development of Mongolian ethnicity is the culmination of my own personal experience growing up as a Mongol, as well as of my more recent anthropological field research in Inner Mongolia. This dissertation is based on two major theoretical constructs: the existen…
The purpose of this research project was to compare the degree of multicultural representation among illustrations of foreign language textbooks from different types of educational systems (central, decentralized, or partially centralized). The study also investigated whether di…
This study examined the question of whether there was a difference in the general school experiences of children who move to a new country with an entirely different culture and language and children who immigrate to a country with a language and culture that is similar to their…
This study begins by identifying the relations between American and Middle-Eastern Arab societies as characterized by conflict. It then identifies the potential positive impact that teacher exchange programs can have on improving these strained diplomatic relations. This is reco…
The need for classroom instruction and materials that reflect students who come from different cultural and linguistic background is important in a country with a multiethnic population. The purpose of this study is to investigate how student teachers respond to literary texts t…
This study explores the educational experiences at home and in school in relation to the ethnic identity development of the Indonesian-Dutch, a biracial minority group that emerged from the colonial situation in the Dutch East-Indies. Comparisons were made across the three major…
There is an ever present and growing population of continental African immigrants in the United States. The recorded numbers of legal immigrants from Africa increased 58.9 percent by 1995 (INS 1996). African immigrants bring their own languages and often must learn English as a …
This study addresses some of the problems involved with defining an effective writing pedagogy in English as a Second Language (ESL) programs for students in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The study has two basic aims: first, to clarify specific areas of difficulties encountere…
This study was conducted to investigate the acquisition order of dative alternation in English by Arabic native speakers and to examine results of the study in relation to those of previous experiments on this subject. The research questions were designed: (1) to investigate the…
Arab international transient students come to the U.S. in great numbers. Some of them come with some literacy experience while others come at a very young age and, thus, have no formal literacy experience in their native countries. Similarly, the majority of these students join …
The purpose of this study was to develop a model for a new faculty orientation program for the Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) in the Sultanate of Oman. Five primary questions were researched in this study: (1) Does the SQU have an organized program of formal activities leading t…
The study analyses language policies and their effects on pupils' academic achievement in two types of primary education programs in Niger. A Hausa and French bilingual school, called Ecole Experimentale, and a French monolingual school called Ecole Lazaret Deux. The study uses …
The present study is aimed at the exploration of the relationships between demographic factors, adjustment patterns and attitudes of the Arab students from Gulf Cooperation Council (Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Bahrain) in the United States. The r…
This longitudinal study investigates the developmental processes of the acquisition of tense and aspect in the English-based interlanguage of four adult native speakers of Arabic who came to the United States to pursue their education. The study, which lasted over an 18-month pe…