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Attitudes and Cultural Backgrounds and Their Relationship to English in a Multicultural Social Context: The Case of Male and Female Arab Immigrants in Canada.

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Abu-Rabia, Salim – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1995

Reading comprehension experiments suggest that cultural content means little to Arab students reading in a second language (English). The students did just as well or better reading stories with no Arabic content. The study also found significant differences in the learning strategies of male and female Arab students. (MJP)

Descriptors: Acculturation, Arabs, Cultural Background, Cultural Interrelationships

Gender and Ethnic-Group Differences in Causal Attributions for Success and Failure in Mathematics and Language Examinations.

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Birenbaum, Menucha; Kraemer, Roberta – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1995

Examines gender and ethnic differences among Jewish and Arab high school students in Israel with respect to their causal attributions for success and failure in mathematics and language examinations. Results from 333 ninth graders show larger effects of ethnicity than of gender, with effects more pronounced in success than in failure attributions.…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Arabs, Comparative Analysis