The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of multimedia as a delivery tool for enhancing vocabulary in second-language classrooms. The mixed method design focused on specific techniques to help students acquire Spanish vocabulary and communication skills. The theoretic…
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The field of SLA has witnessed recently an increased effort in operationalizing and measuring attention and awareness through the use of concurrent verbal reports (think-aloud protocols); however, the argument that the provision of these reports poses an additional task or alter…
The study sought to provide evidence regarding the pedagogic value of communicative tasks in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) setting. Previous research suggests that communicative tasks can provide conditions and promote processes which facilitate second language (L2) lea…
This study examined a contemporary issue in second language (L2) learning: the use of a student's first language (L1) as part of the L2 instructional design. Specifically, this research studied if the inclusion of students' L1 in an ESL (English as a second language) class led t…
There have been a limited number of studies regarding Jewish adolescents and their motivations for pursuing further Jewish education and training once they have completed b'nai mitzvah. Furthermore, related studies have focused primarily on American and Israeli populations where…
This study attempts to investigate the views of three groups of Saudi ESL and EFL learners (total = 100) toward some pedagogical issues related to native and nonnative English-speaking teachers. Specifically, it seeks to focus on participants' perceptions and beliefs regarding t…
This qualitative case study sought to gain deeper understanding of the role the writing process approach played in developing the writing ability of five fifth grade Saudi Arabian students when writing in English as a second language. The study extended for five months in a Midw…
Recent studies in spatial description have shown that all cultures do not perceive and talk about space in the same way. This study examines the speech event of giving directions and is based on 118 samples of audiotaped second-language second language (L2) English direction giv…
Research that focuses on the relationship between individual differences and learning exists (i.e., Dornyei, 2005; Ehrman & Oxford, 1995; Gardner, 1985). Yet, only one study (Verhoeven & Vermeer, 2002) has explored the relationship between personality, when operationalized at th…
This study investigates the use of word formation processes in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) by adult L2 learners of mainly English-speaking background. Forty-four L2 learners, and 40 native speakers of Arabic took part in this study, and performed three tasks (a production task …
The study was completed in fall semester 2004 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The topic for the study was "The Relationship between Student Learning Styles and L2 Acquisition in Two International High Schools' English Language Classes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia." The students learning sty…
This study investigates the generalizability of reading-to-write and independent writing tasks. More specifically, the current study addresses the effect of both tasks and raters on score variability, and investigates the relative impact of these two factors. For this purpose, 1…
This thesis investigates the binding of overt and null subject pronouns in second language (L2) acquisition and first language (L1) attrition of Turkish. The aim is to provide a comparative investigation of language transfer effects in the ultimate state of the L2 and L1 grammar…
Our global village has become a pluralistic society where people from different continents and countries meet, marry, and form families. These interactions have resulted in a growing number of intermarriages. People from different ethnic, social, religious, and economic backgrou…
This research compares three groups of elementary-school children in Toronto by testing their deep lexical knowledge of specific words (implicit aspect) and grading their expression of such knowledge in a standard definition form (expressible aspect). Child participants were dra…
This study examines the writing experiences of U.S. adolescent second language writers and considers how students' identities as ""English Language Learners (ELL)" contributes to their learning, their sense of self, and their academic writing. Within the perspective that writing…
This study investigates the first language (L1) and second language (L2) writing processes of a group of Arab ESL students by addressing the following questions: (a) What are the writing processes undergraduate Saudi ESL students apply when writing in L1? (b) What are the writin…
This study analyzed the influence of age of initiating the study of English as a foreign language among Arabic-speaking intermediate-level students in the State of Kuwait. The major research problem involved comparing English reading comprehension, English vocabulary recognition…
In this dissertation, I examine rote learning from a language socialization perspective, reframing it as social practice for apprenticing novices into language and other domains of cultural competence. This practice, which I call Guided Repetition, entails modeling by an expert,…