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The rapid development of online distance programmes has increased the popularity of higher education among adult students. Despite the suggested benefits of online higher education (OHE), adults may experience various challenges and barriers when adapting to it. Yet, research te…

This dissertation addresses three main issues: voicing-dependent vowel duration in Standard Arabic (SA), its acquisition by adult American students, and the potential effect of learning Arabic on the voicing effect in the students' native language (i.e., reverse phonetic interfe…

In this study, I examine the characteristics of the reception of Brazilian pedagogue Paulo Freire’s critical literacy by Building Resources Across Communities in Bangladesh (BRAC) from 1972 to 1981.The central questions of this study are: (1) how Dr. Fazle Hasan Abed, founding m…