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This study investigated the effectiveness of four vocabulary learning tasks on 104 Saudi EFL learners' retention of ten previously unencountered lexical items. These four tasks were: (1) writing original sentences (WS), (2) writing an original text (i.e. composition) (WT), (3) f…

The object of this study are love-words in the earliest mainstream Christian literature. In the first chapter, we define what a love-word is and how our systematic analysis of love-words contributes to the debate on alternative Christianities first proposed by Walter Bauer. In t…

The thesis reports six experiments investigating word recognition and reading in Arabic. Experiment 1 looked at the word superiority effect in Arabic word recognition using brief presentations of stimuli (five-letter real words, pseudo-words, non-words, and inverted real words) …

This Dissertation discusses the cultural, historical, and linguistic influences of Arabic civilization that led to the incorporation of Arabic words into the German language over the period from 700 to 1200 AD, when the Arab and Germanic cultures enjoyed an especially complex re…