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Language And Power: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Egypt’S Housing Narratives, Maram Gamal

Theses and Dissertations

The issue of housing in Egypt is an evolving historical phenomenon intricately tied to the Egyptian identity, and deeply embedded in the social and political fabric. Common language shapes actual realities and it forms an integral part of the cultural parameters. This research is a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of the housing narrative across four consecutive ruling regimes with distinct political orientations. It deploys a two-stage CDA approach. The first stage involves ideological codification of the narrative to chronologically organize them into their ideological orientations and categories. The second stage historicizes data via a dual approach, namely integrating Norman Fairclough's …

Integrating Language And Content In Mainstream Biology Classrooms - The Experiences Of English Language Learners, Yasmeen Tawfik

Theses and Dissertations

Globalization has vastly enhanced the mobility of people and ideas, in turn changing the world’s educational landscape and increasing the proportion of nonnative English speakers within English learning environments. Although research exists on English Language Learner (ELL) pedagogies and on international education as two separate bodies, few studies have examined the experiences of ELLs learning science within the multicultural environment of international schools. The purpose of the study is to answer three questions: 1) ELLs experience the integration of language and content within mainstream science classes? 2) Which, if any, aspects of their classroom experience do they find problematic, and …

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: …