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Bhavnagri, Navaz Peshotan; Kamash, Suha Khalid – School Community Journal, 2019
A Chaldean Catholic immigrant mother from Iraq kept a journal about how her Arab American daughters (ages 9 and 15) visited museums for the first time and participated in museum-related activities that focused on them (1) understanding and developing empathy for all new immigrants coming to the U.S.; (2) understanding and developing appreciation…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Arabs, Museums, Immigration
M., Asy'ari; Idhan; Punawan, Ahmad Sehri bin – Online Submission, 2020
Nahwu's study as a method focuses more on the issue of rules or conditions that apply to the position of one word in a sentence. It can also be said that Nahwu's lessons focus more on knowing how the final form of a word, i'râb or mabni. At least this kind of material is found in learning nahwu from the ibtidai level, even to universities in…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Sentence Structure, Teaching Methods, Semantics
Abu Rabia, Salim; Haj, Amani – Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Research reveals that although the effect of diacritics--the symbols that tell the reader how to pronounce a letter--on reading and reading comprehension was examined in a series of studies, the influence of diacritics on listening comprehension, especially in the Arabic orthography, was not examined. Therefore, this study attempted to examine…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Semitic Languages, Orthographic Symbols, Reading Processes
Boubaya, Radhouane – Online Submission, 2020
There is no doubt that culture represents a vital component of the foreign language curriculum. Over the past decades, foreign language textbooks, as a key element in the teaching and learning process, covered culture differently qualitatively and quantitatively, and the Arabic textbooks are no exception. This study aims to evaluate the presence…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Textbooks, Content Analysis, Cultural Awareness
Yitzhaki, Dafna; Tannenbaum, Michal; Shohamy, Elana – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This paper reports on a study that examined a Shared Education program recently implemented in Israel based on the Northern Ireland model. Sixth-grade children from two schools -- one Jewish and one Arab, who study in separate education systems and have very limited contacts with one another -- met to learn English (as an additional language)…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Dobinson, T.; McAlinden, M.; Mercieca, P.; Bogachenko, T. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
Diverse university campuses present an ideal context for fostering transcultural learning. Despite the potential that this diversity presents, universities in Australia have yet to make use of this opportunity. The pilot study described here investigates an informal learning experience created by the hosting of the Department of Foreign Affairs…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Arabs, Films, Cultural Activities
Abu Rabia, Salim; Hijjazi, Ekhlas – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2020
The present study explored the influence of short vowelization in Arabic orthography on reading comprehension of different texts, different genres and on different levels, among students of different ages. It explored the influence of short vowelization in Arabic orthography on reading comprehension of texts from the Koran, informative texts,…
Descriptors: Vowels, Reading Comprehension, Arabs, Semitic Languages
AlNajjar, Abeer – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2019
This paper challenges the dominant patronizing approach to youth and media in the Middle East and argues that the calls for censorship of youth media exposure are obsolete and counterproductive. It argues that although censorship advocates have a legitimate concern over media risks, their approaches are ineffective, short-lived and alienating,…
Descriptors: Censorship, Media Literacy, Critical Literacy, Semitic Languages
Kim, Yoonjeon; Albeiz, Tahany; Aburizaizah, Saeed; Bridges, Margaret; Fuller, Bruce; Qutub, Manal – Comparative Education Review, 2019
Pressures build in Middle Eastern and Arabic-speaking societies to diversify economies and democratize social relations. Educators and scholars, contributing to these shifts, have experimented with classroom reforms that aim to advance higher-order thinking skills and the social agility of students. This article reviews 52 empirical studies of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Semitic Languages, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods
Lewicka, Magdalena; Waszau, Anna – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The paper is dedicated to the characteristics of the proposal regarding the cultural and regional knowledge curriculum of the Arabic language area whose realization should be correlated with practical teaching of the Arabic Language, both in universities and in language courses. The prototype and the basis for the development of this curriculum…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Second Language Instruction, Cultural Awareness, Teacher Competencies
Dawood, Samira S.; Jamal, Elafandi A. – African Educational Research Journal, 2019
This research paper aimed to know the effect of using electronic program based on English language mixed with some pictures as facilitating tool for Arabic learning as a foreign language (AFL). The sample of study consists of 12 American students belonging to Arabic families selected from Auburn elementary schools of average age 12 years old. The…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Elementary School Students
Jabr Dajani, Dua; Katz-Berger, Hila; King, M. Bruce; Lang, Laura; Levy, Ariel; Pulvermacher, Yael – Journal of Research in International Education, 2020
Teacher leadership development receives considerable attention in many educational reforms across the globe. This article reports on a unique partnership in Jerusalem that brings Israeli and Palestinian educators together to cultivate teacher leaders who facilitate professional communities and support continual improvement in teaching and…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Leadership Training, Jews, Arabs
Sabir, Mona – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
This study explores how Arab L2 learners of English acquire mass nouns. The mass/count distinction is a morphosyntactically encoded grammatical distinction. Arabic and English have different morphosyntactic realisations of mass nouns. English mass nouns take the form of bare singular whereas Arabic mass nouns can take the definite singular form or…
Descriptors: Nouns, Arabs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
AlGhamdi, Mohammeed A. – English Language Teaching, 2018
This paper focuses on the use of the social network Instagram to provide supplementary English language learning material to learners from Arabic speaking countries. The author was able to use his online account in Instagram to assess the needs of these learners through data analyses. The content made specific to Arabic speakers by offering…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Szczepek Reed, Beatrice; Davies, Ian; Said, Fatma; Bengsch, Géraldine; Sally, Jayme – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2020
This article explores the positioning of a sample of Arabic complementary language schools in the context of the UK government's discourse and promotion of so-called Fundamental British Values. While there is considerable social and political debate about radicalisation in Arab communities, teachers in the sample are deeply committed to a form of…
Descriptors: Social Values, Community Schools, Semitic Languages, Public Policy