O objetivo desta investigação é propor um quadro teórico-prático para determinar o perfil das competências de literacia académica bilingue (Português/Inglês) dos graduandos e futuros profissionais em ensino da língua inglesa no Instituto Superior de Ciências de Educação da Huíla…
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Long-term contact between Hindi and Marathi in Nagpur, India has led to extensive transfer of linguistic features in both directions (Hindi to Marathi and Marathi to Hindi), leading to the formation of two contact varieties, Nagpuri Hindi and Nagpuri Marathi. This thesis investi…
Many students in an allied health program at a Middle Eastern Arab university were experiencing difficulties with courses taught in English, resulting in poor academic achievement, low grade point averages, a high failure rate amongst its first year students, and an adverse impa…
Purpose. The purpose of this research was to investigate whether the use of authentic songs in the introduction of new vocabulary items had an effect on vocabulary acquisition and retention for second language learners. This was achieved by comparing the introduction of the new …
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…
Children's ability to recognize letters and their corresponding sounds is of primary importance in early reading achievement (Ehri, Nunes, Willows, Schuster, Yaghoub-Zadeh & Shanahan, 2001). One useful strategy used in teaching pre-readers letter-sound relations is mnemonics (Eh…
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…
Drawing on Lave and Wenger's (1991) and Wenger's (1998) communities of practice (CoP) framework, this study explores the shared repertoire of humor practices in the creation of community within the context of a culturally diverse and multilevel adult Arabic language classroom co…
As of Spring 2013, this is the first research study of its type which has looked at and analyzed the results of qualitative interviews conducted with Kurdish Iraqi students studying abroad in the government's, Mhe-HCDP, foreign study abroad program. The study looks at student's …
The purpose of this study was to examine the production of emphasis by American L2 learners of Arabic. Nineteen participants, 5 native speakers and 14 L2 learners participated in a production experiment in which they produced monosyllabic CVC pairs that were contrasted in terms …
This study aimed to investigate the role of time constraint on second language reading comprehension via the recruiting of 47 Saudi participants who were learning English as a second language. Subjects shared similar level of English proficiency; all participants were in their t…
This study examined joint reading of narrative and informational texts in the home setting, between parents and their English-Hebrew dual language learning preschool children. Parent-child dyads were video-recorded while reading two sets of books; each set contained one narrativ…
The following thesis is an attempt to explore the relationship between translating and language learning. Chapter one is an attempt to relate the theory of Translating with that of Second Language Teaching. In the second chapter a review will be given of the history of translati…
I This thesis is an investigation of the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis. This hypothesis is founded on the assumption that second language learners tend to transfer their native language structures when learnIng a, second language. In its strong version, this hypothesis claims …
Bu tez çalışmasının temel amacı, Türk İngilizce öğretmen adaylarının genel kültürel zekasını (KZ) incelemektir. Ayrıca, bahsi geçen öğretmen adaylarının genel kültürel zekâ düzeyi ve kültürel zekanın dört boyutu katılımcıların cinsiyeti, okul türleri (devlet / özel lise), çifte …
This quasi-experimental classroom-based study (n=128) looks at what students in an English for Academic Purposes Program (EAP) learn from the process of writing collaboratively and how this affects the individual writing that they subsequently produce. This is compared to how in…