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The Arabic Braille: Evaluation And Suggestions For Modification, Mohamed Tarek El-Sharkawy
The Arabic Braille: Evaluation And Suggestions For Modification, Mohamed Tarek El-Sharkawy
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The title of this thesis is The Arabic Braille: Evaluation and Suggestions for Modification. It studies the Braille writing system from a descriptive point of view, with the purpose of trying to determine the extent of functionality of the Arabic Braille system and its comparability with the seen writing systems. After the theoretical background is presented, which discusses definitions of the Braille writing system, its history, and fields of activities, the thesis proceeds to its main objective, which is to examine the Arabic Braille system. The results of the study show that the efficiency of the Arabic Braille system sterns …
Lexical Organization In Trilingual: Investing The Foreign Store Hypothesis, Christine Laliberté
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 …
Arabic Consonant Cluster Acquisition, Iman Saad El Din Fahmy Nahla
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 …