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…
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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…
The purpose of this study was to explore the feelings, thoughts, behaviors and/or experiences of Saudi participants with regard to the major tenets of Multiple Intelligences (MI) theory as it related to the Saudi context. The literature indicated that MI theory had raised the co…
This study is an exploration of the role of the Lebanese school principal as perceived by a selected group of the role occupants--the secondary school principals in the North Lebanon Educational District. The study seeks to provide empirical data about the role of the principal …
This study was grounded on the assumption that the native culture of a sojourner is the main parameter through which he functions whether in his country or abroad. With this in mind, the educational perceptions of 123 male Saudi graduates from American or Saudi universities were…
The purpose of this study was to examine the school and social experiences of five students from a culture that has been referred to as an 'invisible minority,' the Middle Eastern (Arabic) culture. This culture has remained invisible, to some extent, due to the lack of informati…
People throughout the world seem to use metaphor, and current psycholinguistic research suggests that metaphorical statements are accessed and processed as easily as literal ones by native speakers. Non-native speakers, however, may find that culture-specific elements of metapho…
This study examined the word recognition and word integration skills of Japanese and Arab ESL speakers who were enrolled in intermediate and advanced level courses in two pre-academic ESL program. The purpose for this study was to identify and examine the different types of read…
The primary purpose of this investigation was to determine if the use of music would increase English language frequency in a group of second language kindergartners. The subjects selected for this investigation consisted of two girls and two boys between the ages of four and fi…
Equivalence priming, priming with language equivalent numerals, was examined in Hindi-English bilinguals. Targets were always Arabic numerals, but the primes could be Arabic numerals, Hindi numerals, or dots (control), at random. Participants classified the targets as odd or eve…
The purpose of this study was to examine perceptions of Arab and Chaldean high school students (ACHSS) toward bilingual education. The findings of this study can help educators determine the extent to which students' perceptions of their bilingual education programs affected the…
The increasing parental participation and involvement in education can be shown in programs such as bilingual education. Thus, the knowledge and attitudes of bilingual parents toward their district's bilingual education programs needed investigation to determine current levels o…
The cultural identity of multilingual Lebanese students is examined in academic writing (mainly argumentative) in Arabic and in English essays using case studies. This area is important because it helps reach an understanding on whether different languages allow us to take up di…
The purpose of this study was to develop a volunteer tutoring program to integrate foreign students into a Jewish day school. Jewish day schools offer a dual curriculum of Judaic studies, which are taught in Hebrew, and secular studies, which are taught in English. This presents…
Beginning with Ritchie (1978), no less than 20 studies have probed the issue of Universal Grammar (UG) access by adult second language (L2) learners. In a majority of these studies the results pointed toward UG accessibility. Schachter (1989a, 1990) found it to be otherwise. Whi…
The research in the present study investigates the contribution of learners' knowledge of linguistic factors, namely, vocabulary and syntax to English as a foreign language reading comprehension. Four research questions are addressed: (a) Is there a correlation between lexical k…
This thesis utilizes a critical life history methodology to examine the lived experience of eight research participants. Each participant experienced a one year teacher education program at a Canadian university with a focus on antiracist education during the 1994–95 academic ye…