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Download full textAl-Shaer, Ibrahim M. R. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
The purpose of this research was to examine the impact of employing concept mapping at a pre-writing stage on English as a foreign language (EFL) students' ability to generate better argumentative essays. Thirty-eight participants were randomly assigned to two groups participating in Writing II course at Al-Quds Open University (QOU). Both groups…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Persuasive Discourse, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Direct linkSchwartz, Mila; Shaul, Yehudit – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2013
The development of script schema, as a source of narrative knowledge, is an essential stage in this knowledge construction. This study focused on the role of bilingual versus monolingual preschool education in the development of script schema knowledge in Russian (L1) and Hebrew (L2) among Russian/Hebrew-speaking children in Israel. The preschool…
Descriptors: Minority Group Children, Preschool Education, Bilingual Education, Semitic Languages
Abu-Rabia, Salim; Shakkour, Wael; Siegel, Linda – Bilingual Research Journal, 2013
This study examined the effects of an intervention helping struggling readers improve their reading and writing skills in English as a foreign language (L2), and those same skills in Arabic, which was their first language (L1). Transferring linguistic skills from L2 to L1 is termed "cognitive retroactive transfer". Tests were…
Descriptors: Intervention, Writing Skills, Syntax, Semitic Languages
Shamir, Haya; Johnson, Erin Phinney – Educational Media International, 2012
This paper presents an effectiveness study of a computer-based English reading program, the Waterford Early Reading Program (WERP), among first and second grade students in Israel. Students who used the program were compared to a control group only receiving English as a foreign language (EFL) instruction as part of the school curriculum. First…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Early Reading, Reading Programs, Reading Achievement
Dubiner, Deborah – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2010
For many decades now, applied linguistics studies have investigated the impact of second language acquisition on various aspects of the development of school children. Few studies, however, have focused on the simultaneous acquisition of two additional/second languages in the classroom. The present paper explores the impact of a spoken Arabic…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Control Groups
Abu-Rabia, Salim; Sanitsky, Ekaterina – Bilingual Research Journal, 2010
The present study is an examination of the contribution of bilingualism to trilingualism, namely the influence of learning two different orthographies on learning a third. The participants were two groups of sixth graders from Israeli schools who were studying English as a foreign (second or third) language: Russian Israeli children for whom…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Transfer of Training
