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Investigating The Instructional And Assessment Strategies That Teachers Use In Reading Classes In Elementary Schools: A Uae Study, Fatima Matar Khdoum Hamad Al Nuaimi Nov 2018

Investigating The Instructional And Assessment Strategies That Teachers Use In Reading Classes In Elementary Schools: A Uae Study, Fatima Matar Khdoum Hamad Al Nuaimi

Curriculum and Instruction Theses

The purpose of this study is to investigate the reading strategies; and assessment strategies teachers use in their reading classes. Furthermore, it aims to explore the types of reading difficulties students face while reading English. The research is based on three research questions. Firstly, what kind of instructional strategies do elementary school teachers use in their reading classes? Secondly, what type of assessment strategies do elementary school teachers use to assess reading? Lastly, what do elementary school teachers perceive as the difficulties that their ESL learners face while reading in English? The main objectives of this research are to explore …


Exploring Arabic Emergent Literacy Instruction In Al Ain Private Schools: A Case Study Of Two Teachers, Iman Nader Alamirah May 2018

Exploring Arabic Emergent Literacy Instruction In Al Ain Private Schools: A Case Study Of Two Teachers, Iman Nader Alamirah

Curriculum and Instruction Theses

The concept of emergent literacy reflects a view of children’s development and learning of language in which the emerging language skills gradually progress in alignment with the developmental aspects of children (Sandvik, van Daal, & Adèr, 2014). This case study aimed at delving into the nature of Arabic emergent literacy instruction by exploring the perceptions and practices of a case of two teachers in one private school in Al Ain city. The questions this study attempted to answer were: (a) what are the perceptions of private schools’ teachers’ in Al Ain regarding the Arabic emergent literacy instruction? (b) What are …


Chemical Equilibrium Misconceptions Among The 12th Grade Students In Al Ain Private Schools, Shahad Yahya Kayali Mar 2018

Chemical Equilibrium Misconceptions Among The 12th Grade Students In Al Ain Private Schools, Shahad Yahya Kayali

Curriculum and Instruction Theses

This thesis aims at evaluating the understanding of the 12th-Grade students in private schools towards four central concepts of the chemical equilibrium, these were i) the equilibrium constant; ii a) approach to equilibrium; iii) heterogeneous equilibrium system; and iv) Le-Chatelier principle. The thesis also identified the misconceptions of chemical equilibrium across the student gender in the context of the United Arab Emirates. The collection of the required data allotted the Test to Identify Students’ Alternative Conceptions (TISAC), which consists of two-tier multiple-choice questions. The required data drawn from the target sample of 206 12th-Grade students included 122 females and 84 …