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The acquisition of morphosyntactic agreement in the interlanguage system of AFL learners in Ghana

Husein, Alhassan Abdur-Rahim (2013-01-17)

Despite the relevance of agreement structures in constructing the interlanguage (IL) system of the L2 learner, not much research has been conducted in this area on Arabic language learners. This study investigated the ...
An analysis of the pragmatic functions of idiomatic expressions in the Egyptian novel ‘Taxi’

Elshamy, Hala Mohamed (2017-01-26)

Abstract The purpose of the study is to investigate the idiomatic expressions and their pragmatic functions in the conversations of the novel Taxi in the light of Speech Act Theory. The study adopts a qualitative linguistic ...
An approach to evaluating the pedagogical value of concordances in Arabic foreign language classrooms: Perspectives from the users

Hashad, Ola (2015-05-29)

The use of electronic corpora in recent years has been widely spreading among language educators, yet they are still at their initial stages of exploring key issues relating to this approach. One way to integrate corpora ...
Arabic rhetoric discourse: an analysis of opinion newspaper articles

Gad, Fatma (2014-10-19)

This study is a descriptive quantitative study which examines text superstructure patterns of opinion articles written in Arabic by native Arabic-speakers. It addresses three questions: 1) What is/are the rhetorical ...
Arabization and derivation in quadrilateral verbal nouns: a study on three newspapers

AlGorn, Said (2012-09-13)

The purpose of this study was to examine the semantic development, specifically the Arabization versus the derivation, of quadrilateral verbal nouns and trilateral verbal nouns augmented by one letter in Modern Standard ...
Arabizi: a writing variety worth learning? an exploratory study of the views of foreign learners of Arabic on Arabizi.

Farrag, Mona (2012-05-30)

This paper investigates the views of learners of Arabic as a foreign language (AFL) on Arabizi as well as the possible effects of these views on the field of Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL). For purposes of ...
The attitude of Egyptian Nubian university students towards Arabic and Nubian languages

Abou-Ras, Sanaa Gamal (2012-05-28)

This research investigates the attitude of Egyptian Nubian university students towards the Arabic and the two Nubian languages, Nobiin and Kenuzi-Dongola. The Nubian languages are called by Egyptian Nubians, Fadijja/Fadicca ...
Ba’da and qabla in online news: A corpus-based study

Eddakrouri, Ayman (2016-06-02)

This thesis offers a corpus-based analysis and description of two of the most frequently used words in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), namely بَعْدَ /ba’da/ (after, after [that]) and قَبْلَ /qabla/ (before, ago). To this ...
Code choice in Egyptian TV advertisements

Younes, Mostafa (2018-01-17)

This study examines the code choice made by content producers in Egyptian television (TV) advertisements. We consider the emergence of new types of TV networks, advertised products, services and messages conveyed in TV ...
Code mixing in 'Ammiyat Al-muthaqqafin: a case study on the use of the b-prefix as a tense marker

Tawakol, Hanady (2013-02-06)

This study aims at investigating possible rules that govern code mixing between the two basic varieties (H and L; Ferguson, 1959) at the verbal phrase level (combining linguistic features of Fusha and ‘ammiya in spoken ...
Code switching and attitudinal perception

Ebid, Hossam (2017-09-14)

One of the results of globalization is that individuals are now more likely using multiple codes to communicate, often switching between them. The purpose of this study is to examine the attitude toward codeswitching (CS) ...
Corpus-based analysis of three Arabic adversative conjunctions in current Egyptian newspapers

Essa, Shaemaa (2013-05-27)

Conjunctions function as cohesive and text building elements in Modern Standard Arabic. They play various semantic and discursive roles at different textual levels: phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph and discourse (Al-Batal, ...
Culture in the AFL Novice Classroom: Teachers' Perceptions, Teaching Techniques, and Assessment.

Abdalrahim, Amera (2019-01-16)

The teaching of cultural content in the foreign language classroom has received a great deal of attention throughout the past few decades. The role of culture in the L2 classroom has been investigated and studied from ...
Determining code choice: written slogans during Egyptian revolution-January 2011

Amin, Hanzada Hesham (2013-05-27)

This qualitative study aims at depicting the phenomenon of the written code switching between Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Egyptian colloquial Arabic (ECA) in the written slogans during the Egyptian revolution January ...
Developing and validating a cultural competence test for students of Arabic as a second language

Orabi, Ebtesam (2013-02-03)

Culture represents a very important element of foreign and second language education. Teaching culture in language classroom has attracted many teachers and researchers. However, there are currently very few assessment ...
Developing intercultural communicative competence and proficiency of advanced Arabic learners: a proposed framework

Shoman, Mahmoud Mohamed (2011-06-05)

This study examines the effect of a proposed course on the communicative competence of study-abroad advanced-level learners studying Arabic as a Foreign Language (AFL) in terms of: 1) intercultural communicative competence ...
Effectiveness of noun phrase accessibility hierarchy in predicting order of difficulty of relative clauses for AFL learners

Amin, Mohamed (2017-01-28)

This study investigates the difficulty order of relative clause structures in Arabic second language acquisition by checking the applicability of NPAH to predict such order using data taken from the Arabic Learner Corpus ...
The effect of input-based and output-based feedback on the short-term development of AFL learners' inter-language

El Ramly, Heba Mohamed Said (2013-05-27)

This quasi-experimental study was designed to investigate the role and value of two major interactional feedback techniques: recasts and elicitations in communicative Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (ECA) classrooms. A preliminary ...
The effect of using same language subtitling (SLS) in content comprehension and vocabulary acquisition in Arabic as a foreign language (AFL)

Selim, Aysha Abdel-Moneim (2010-12-13)

This study investigates the effects of SLS (Same-Language subtitling) on content comprehension and vocabulary acquisition of MSA (Modern Standard Arabic) as L2 at the intermediate level and addresses three research questions: ...
An exploratory study of teachers’ beliefs and practices regarding the class opening by teachers of Arabic to speakers of other languages (TASOL)

Abdelrehim, Ghada Abdalla Ibrahim (2017-02-02)

This study examined the beliefs of teachers of Arabic to speakers of other languages (TASOL) about class openings and the interplay between such beliefs and teacher’s in-class practices regarding class opening as the first ...

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