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United Arab Emirates University

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2020

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Exploring The Instructional Emergent Writing Strategies Of The Emirati Kindergarteners: A Mixed Method Study, Warda Suliman Saeed Al Azri Dec 2020

Exploring The Instructional Emergent Writing Strategies Of The Emirati Kindergarteners: A Mixed Method Study, Warda Suliman Saeed Al Azri

Theses

This mixed-method study aimed at exploring the nature and the types of instructional emergent writing strategies applied by UAE kindergarten teachers in their classrooms. The study also fathomed the teachers’ views toward the practicality of the instructional emergent writing strategies and the challenges they encountered when teaching emergent writing using these strategies. The study used an exploratory sequential mixed method design. In the first phase of the study, a qualitative mean was used by carrying out semi-structured interviews with a purposive-selected sampling of kindergarten English teachers (n=5). The second phase of the study featured a collection of quantitative data using …

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Exploring The Effectiveness Of Using Guided Reading Approach On Promoting Arab Eighth Graders’ English Reading Fluency, Rasha Moustafa Mohamed Afandy Nov 2020

Exploring The Effectiveness Of Using Guided Reading Approach On Promoting Arab Eighth Graders’ English Reading Fluency, Rasha Moustafa Mohamed Afandy

Theses

This study aimed at exploring the effect of the guided reading approach on promoting reading fluency skills for middle school students. An explanatory mixed-method design was employed to achieve the purpose of this study. The quantitative phase of the study featured a pre and post-test after the implementation of a guided reading program for six weeks. The qualitative phase of the study featured by a collection of documents of evaluations which were conducted biweekly during the implementation of the program. These evaluative checklists were used to measure the students’ progress in reading fluency skills. The participants of this study were …

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Exploring The Effectiveness Of Using Guided Reading Approach On Promoting Arab Eighth Graders’ English Reading Fluency, Rasha Moustafa Afandy Nov 2020

Exploring The Effectiveness Of Using Guided Reading Approach On Promoting Arab Eighth Graders’ English Reading Fluency, Rasha Moustafa Afandy

Theses

This study aimed at exploring the effect of the guided reading approach on promoting reading fluency skills for middle school students. An explanatory mixed-method design was employed to achieve the purpose of this study. The quantitative phase of the study featured a pre and post-test after the implementation of a guided reading program for six weeks. The qualitative phase of the study featured by a collection of documents of evaluations which were conducted biweekly during the implementation of the program. These evaluative checklists were used to measure the students’ progress in reading fluency skills. The participants of this study were …

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The Impact Of The Proposed Mathematics Enrichment Program On The Uae Students’ Mathematical Literacy In Light Of The Pisa Framework, Hanan Shaher Almarashdi Nov 2020

The Impact Of The Proposed Mathematics Enrichment Program On The Uae Students’ Mathematical Literacy In Light Of The Pisa Framework, Hanan Shaher Almarashdi

Dissertations

Mathematical literacy is an important skill that students must possess, as it helps students understand and use mathematics in the real world. The main aim of this dissertation is to investigate the impact of a proposed mathematical enrichment program developed based on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) framework. This assessment is particularly important because it is on the National Agenda as the UAE aspires to be among the top 20 countries in the world in PISA by 2021. An explanatory mixed method design was adopted to achieve the purpose of this study. Subjects included were 102 grade 10 …

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Exploring English Teachers’ Views On Their Kindergarten Emergent Writing Practices: A Mixed Method Study, Asma Yousef Al Raeesi Nov 2020

Exploring English Teachers’ Views On Their Kindergarten Emergent Writing Practices: A Mixed Method Study, Asma Yousef Al Raeesi

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This study aimed at exploring English teachers’ views on the emergent writing practices of kindergarten students. An exploratory sequential mixed method design was adopted by employing qualitative and quantitative means. In the first phase, five kindergarten teachers were selected purposively and interviewed using semi-structured interviews. The results extracted from the qualitative phase served in developing the quantitative tool. The second phase which featured a collection of quantitative data by means of a questionnaire which was distributed randomly to kindergarten teachers in all school districts in the UAE (n=210). The results gleaned from both the qualitative and the quantitative …

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Exploring English Teacher Beliefs And Actual Practice Of The Use Of Interactive Reading Strategies In Kindergarten Classes In Al Ain’S Schools, Saleha Saleh Al Harthi May 2020

Exploring English Teacher Beliefs And Actual Practice Of The Use Of Interactive Reading Strategies In Kindergarten Classes In Al Ain’S Schools, Saleha Saleh Al Harthi

Theses

This study aimed to investigate the beliefs of the kindergarten teachers in the UAE Ministry of Education on the assigned teaching and assessment reading strategies and to explore the implementation in teaching and assessment in Al Ain KG Literacy focus sessions. A questionnaire on teacher beliefs was distributed to 231 teachers in 26 Al Ain kindergartens and the convenience sample was conducted for this instrument. A random sample of 17 English teachers employed at 4 of the kindergartens was then observed for their implementation of reading strategies in the classroom. The participants were all from Al Ain city with at …

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Exploring The Role Of Interactive Technology In Promoting Kindergarteners’ Phonemic Awareness Skills, Balqis Abdulla Albreiki May 2020

Exploring The Role Of Interactive Technology In Promoting Kindergarteners’ Phonemic Awareness Skills, Balqis Abdulla Albreiki

Theses

This study aimed at exploring the role of interactive technology in promoting phonemic awareness skills for Emirati kindergartners. An explanatory mixed-method design was employed to achieve the purpose of this study. The quantitative phase of the study featured a pre and post-test after implementation of an interactive program for six weeks. The qualitative phase of the study featured a collection of qualitative data of actual work of kindergarteners during the implementation of the program by means of documents. The participants of this study were KG2 students who were selected conveniently (n= 50) and were divided into two groups: …

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Exploring The Role Of Direct Phonemic Awareness Instruction Of Decoding And Letter Naming On Reading Abilities Of Uae Kindergarteners, Eiman Abdulla Muhsen Altheeb Alkhlaifi May 2020

Exploring The Role Of Direct Phonemic Awareness Instruction Of Decoding And Letter Naming On Reading Abilities Of Uae Kindergarteners, Eiman Abdulla Muhsen Altheeb Alkhlaifi

Theses

This study aimed at exploring the role of direct phonemic awareness of letter naming and decoding in the reading abilities of Emirati kindergartners. The mixed-method was adopted to achieve the purpose of this study. In the first phase of the study quantitative means were used by conducting a pre and post-test after implementation of the program for six weeks. The second phase of the study featured a collection of qualitative data means of document analysis which was randomly selected from the participant's performance during the program. The participants in this study were KG1 students who were selected conveniently (n=40) and …

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The Impact Of Geogebra Software On The Performance Of Grade 10-Algebra Students In Graphing Quadratic Functions In Al Ain, Khaled Waleed Sheikh Qasem Apr 2020

The Impact Of Geogebra Software On The Performance Of Grade 10-Algebra Students In Graphing Quadratic Functions In Al Ain, Khaled Waleed Sheikh Qasem

Curriculum and Instruction Theses

GeoGebra is an interactive mathematics program for teaching and learning mathematics from early school years up to the university level. The program is considered dynamic mathematics software that enables student to see and explore mathematical concepts, their relations, and theories. The main objective of this study is to examine the effect of using GeoGebra on students’ understanding of Quadratic Functions in 10th grade Emirati students in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. A quasiexperimental design was employed to collected data using a pre-test and post-test tool to evaluate the effectiveness of the GeoGebra software intervention. Eighty-five (n=85) participants were randomly divided …

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The Effectiveness Of Linguistic Games In Vocabulary Development Among Fourth Grade Students, Wafa Yousuf Al Momani Apr 2020

The Effectiveness Of Linguistic Games In Vocabulary Development Among Fourth Grade Students, Wafa Yousuf Al Momani

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استهدفت الدراسة تحديد المفردات المتضمنة في مقرر اللغة العربية لطلبة الصف الرابع في دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة، وقياس مدى فاعليّة الألعاب اللّغوية في تنمية المفردات لدى طلبة الصف الرابع. واعتمدت الدراسة المنهج شبه التجريبي، وتك ونت عينة الدراسة من (31) طالبا وطالبة من طلبة الصف الرابع ف ي برايتون كوليدج العين في دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة، تم تقسيمهم إلى مجموعتين: مجموعة تجريبية وعدد أفرادها (16) طال بًا وطالبة، عدد الذكور (9) وعدد الإناث (7) تم تدريسهم مقرر اللغة العربية باستخدام الألعاب اللغوية، والأخرى مجموعة ضابطة وعدد أفرادها (15) طال بًا وطالبة، عدد الذّكور (8) وعدد الإناث (7) تم تدريسهم مقرر …

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