English has become a common medium that has impacted Saudi Arabia’s educational system. While Saudi Arabia, on the global stage, is known for its conservative practices especially in relation to women, there has been a significant rise in Saudi women graduating from universities…
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This thesis explores how learner independence was implemented as a curricular goal at a tertiary level Preparatory Programme (PP) in the United Arab Emirates. This exploratory-interpretive case study shows how students and teachers at the English programme responded to an Indepe…
There have been profound changes within German culture and society in recent decades including the social reality and legal equality of same-sex couples and parents and an increased visibility of non-heterosexual individuals. Through my many years of formal education and as a te…
Informed by, and seeking to contribute to, discussions about appropriate methodology (e.g. Holliday, 1994), my study as reported in this thesis was concerned with appropriacy of paradigms in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). It explored practitioner perspe…
The aim of this study is to investigate English language teachers' understanding of creativity in the context of primary education in Kuwait. The meaning of creativity, and the factors that support or suppress it, are investigated from the point of view of female English languag…
Three EFL classrooms in primary schools in Greece were introduced to dyslexia friendly practices so as to explore whether dyslexic pupils’ inclusion was enhanced. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of the dyslexia friendly practices on dyslexic and non-dyslexic …
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 study investigated the factors that influence the adoption and integration of Web-Based Instruction (WBI) by English language faculty members in their regular teaching in Saudi Arabia. The study attempted to: (1) investigate the relationship between the five attributes of t…
Dialogic pedagogy involves students as critical inquirers, who can analyze their perspectives and attitudes. Dialogic creates liminal space (Buber, 1965) where conversation generates knowledge and personal relations. I intend to explore these ‘dialogic spaces’ where a group of 2…
The emergence of English as a global language has led to a huge demand for TESOL language educators around the world (Davies, 2009). This has resulted in greater intercultural encounters with the cultural Other; hence, the need to understand the experiences of these teachers to …
Having taught for about thirty years, I have seen the changes in education focused on students´ success. However, there is always space to grow in the same direction and one of the strategies that is being used throughout the world is translanguaging, a strategy that gives the i…
Educational systems reinforce hegemonic ideas, so students can be citizens that adapt to the socio-economic system of the dominant classes (Apple, 200), and this is the case of Mexico and the United States. With the objective of promoting effective intercultural understanding, t…
With an increasing immigrant population in the United States, there is a growing number of English as a Second Language (ESL) classes in adult education institutions. Given that English language learners (ELLs) come from various backgrounds, they face unique challenges when lear…