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Strategies To Increase The Critical Reading Skills Of Secondary Students, Laurie Ann Guy
Strategies To Increase The Critical Reading Skills Of Secondary Students, Laurie Ann Guy
Theses Digitization Project
This paper will examine what research has revealed about reading and learning in the areas of word recognition, scaffolding to develop understanding, metacognition and application of new knowledge in real world situations. The study then will go on to link what is known about learning to strategies that have already been developed by secondary teachers to increase critical reading skills.
Rising Off The Plateau In Learning Arabic, Daniel Scott Linquist
Rising Off The Plateau In Learning Arabic, Daniel Scott Linquist
MA TESOL Collection
Experiencing plateaus in second language learning is a common experience, especially for language student studying Arabic or one of the other languages considered more difficult. Some of the causes for the plateau experience in Arabic are its complex grammar, its vast amount of vocabulary, and the different roles of Modern Standard Arabic and the spoken dialects of Arabic.
Rising off the Plateau in Studying Arabic is a thesis project, which analyzes this second language learner’s attempt to make significant progress in studying Modern Standard Arabic. The project was based on a self-directed, semi-intensive Arabic language program, which prioritized the reading …