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Psychometrically Equivalent Arabic Monosyllabic Word Recognition Materials, Maida Christine Robertson

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The purpose of this study was to develop, digitally record, evaluate, and psychometrically equate a set of Arabic monosyllabic word lists to use in the measurement of the word recognition score. Familiar Arabic monosyllabic words were digitally recorded by a native male talker from Jordan who was judged to have a standard Arabic dialect. Twenty native Arabic participants with normal hearing were used as subjects to determine the percentage of correct word recognition for each word at 10 intensity levels ranging from -5 to 40 dB HL in 5 dB increments. The monosyllabic word data were analyzed using logistic regression. …

Refusals In Arabic: Egyptian Native Speakers Vs. American Learners Of Arabic As A Foreign Language, Rasha M Abdel Moneim Badr

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The purpose of this thesis was to find out what were the types of strategies employed by American learners of Arabic as a second language and Egyptian native speakers of Arabic, to perform the speech act of refusal. Also, the present study investigated the similarities and/or the f differences between the most frequent strategies employed by both groups to perform refusals; in addition to investigating the relationship between the social status of the interlocutor and the initiating acts on one hand and the strategies chosen by both groups to perform refusals on the second hand. The study was conducted using …

Teacher Training Via Digital Apprenticeship To Master Teachers Of Arabic: Exposure, Reflection, And Replication As Instruments For Change In Novice Instructor Teaching Style, Jeremy L. Palmer

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The Modern Language Association (MLA) recently reported that from 1998 to 2002 there was a 92% increase in Arabic programs throughout the United States. With the increase in media coverage of current events in the Middle East, more and more students are desiring to learn about the region's languages and cultures. More teachers of Arabic are needed to meet this growing demand for Arabic instruction. This thesis investigates whether deliberate intervention via explicit and implicit exposure to the instructional behavior, skills, and strategies of master teachers of Arabic, combined with replication thereof, as well as critical personal reflection, positively alters …

Towards An Arabic-Japanese Collocational Dictionary, Tomoko Kondo

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Collocation is the arbitrary combination of words based on syntactic and semantic relations. Although collocational knowledge improves learners' expressiveness and fluency, collocation has long been neglected in learning Arabic, and Arabic dictionaries provide insufficient information about collocations.

This paper investigates three issues. The first comprises the characteristics of

collocation combining linguistic, pedagogical, lexicographical and cognitive viewpoints. I emphasize the importance of the knowledge of paradigmatic relations (synonyms) to improve that of collocation, and the necessity of contrastive study which will indicate what collocations should be learned and entered in dictionaries. The second issue is the current situation of Arabic vocabulary …

Sentence Structure In Egyptian Journalistic Arabic. A Quantitative And Comparative Study In Al Ahram Newspaper From 1937 To 1997, Gehane Hamdy El Hakim

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Lexical Organization In Trilingual: Investing The Foreign Store Hypothesis, Christine Laliberté

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This study investigated lexical organization in trilingual by attempting to determine a) whether lexical items in the dominant language (L1) are stored separately from those of the L2 and the L3; and b) whether lexical items in the L2 and the L3 are stored together, in a "foreign language store", or separately. As well, potential differences between the lexical organization of bilinguals and trilingual were examined. Previous research has revealed that language dominance and proficiency play a crucial role in intra- and interlanguage interference. Typically, interlingual interference originates from the dominant language (L1) ; however, as proficiency in the non-dominant …

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: …

A Critical Study Of The Poems On The Battle Of SiffīN In The Book "WaqʻAt SiffīN" By Nasṛ B. MuzāHịM Al-Minqarī, Ali Naibi Suwaid

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The Poetry Of ʻUrwa B. Udhayna: The Collection Of His Extant Poetry, Its Appraisal And His Biography, Abdul Ali Abdul Hamid Muhammad Hamid

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