The association between reading problems and behavior problems has been established for children learning to read English (see Gellert & Embro, 1999). To date, however, little research has examined this relationship in bilingual situations. The goal of the current study was to i…
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The purpose of this study was to explore and describe views and attitudes of selected Saudi EPL teachers toward introducing the target culture (TC) in their EFL classrooms to develop their students' sociolinguistic competence. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were condu…
Schools have been amply identified as sites where hegemonic learning processes and the dominant representations of reality that accompany them hold sway. In sites like these, ethnolinguistic minorities meet the hybridizing and purifying practices that reproduce the imperfectness…
American Orthodox Jewish teens commonly spend time studying in Israeli yeshivas prior to beginning college. In a qualitative study, in depth interviews were conducted with eighteen students who reported experiencing religious change during study in Israel. Areas studied included…
In Jordan, top-down calls for education reform increasingly intersect with national and transnational discourses and debates on enhancing economic growth, national unity, gender equality, and civic participation in Jordan and the broader Middle East. Such initiatives have increa…
The education of boys in the Middle East has received very little attention despite falling retention and achievement rates and rising repetition rates among males. In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), this trend is very clear; boys have higher dropout rates, higher repetition rat…
The purpose of the study is to examine art education in boys' middle schools in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. The study specifically investigated characteristics of art education teachers, teaching methods and guidelines, school attitudes toward art education, evaluation,…
This study examined the extent to which the use of cooperative learning in the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) in Washington, DC had an impact on the reading performance of grade four and five students in the standard reading curriculum. The ISA is a bilingual English-Arabic school …
The purpose of this study was to determine if Arabic male and female children perceived differential treatment by their parents. Arabic families, immigrant and first generation, have tried to maintain their culture, while living in a new country with a culture different from the…
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the causes of the differential treatment of sick boys and girls in Minia, Egypt. I give attention to the social, economic, and cultural factors that define the position of women in this setting and that explain the distribution of d…