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Arabic Consonant Cluster Acquisition, Iman Saad El Din Fahmy Nahla

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The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that American L2 learners of Arabic find consonant clusters of Arabic that are not permissible in their native language difficult to pronounce. The interlanguages of six adult native speakers of American English learning Arabic as a second language is investigated. Subjects are asked to read sentences containing words ending with consonant clusters. Subjects' performance on clusters permissible in Arabic and English and clusters non-permissible in English is compared. The difference between subjects' performance on clusters permissible in Arabic and English and clusters permissible in English only is found to be …

Attitudinal And Language Proficiency Screening An Alternative Selection Procedure For University Admission, Nabila Louis Nakhla

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Recent Attempts To Reforming Arabic Grammar, Abdul Warith M. Said

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This thesis aims at studying and evaluating, within a comprehensive framework, the attempts made in Egypt in the last hundred years to reform Arabic grammar. The attempts made before

this period have been only touched on, being a part of the back­ ground of the recent ones. This study is composed of a preface pointing out why this subject was chosen, its scope and the gap it is hoped to fill; an introduction dealing with the meaning of "grammar" and the developments of grammatical study of Arabic in the previous centuries; four chapters which dealt respectively with the following topics: …