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…
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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…
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 research examines the relation between intervention models of conflict resolution and political change and control. Six Arab-Jewish intervention programs were selected to explore the topic. The research addresses two main questions: first, do the programs contribute to conf…
The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze the adjustment problems encountered by international students enrolled at Texas Southern University. The study also attempted to determine if there were significant differences in the adjustment problems among respondents in …
The problem this ethnographic study addresses is the relationship between various ways of understanding "difference" and particular conceptualizations of what might constitute just educational practices for students across lines of social demarcation. Thinking about differences …
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore how young Arab Muslim women attending college, in the United States and France, negotiate their identity vis-á-vis multiple contexts of citizenship in secular state, gender, religion, culture, and race. Sixteen interviews…