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Download full textAl-Ghabra, Iman M. M. Muwafaq – English Language Teaching, 2015
Academic performance is the main concern of educators all over the world. Authentic researchers have studied the importance of handwriting for improving students' performance, and they have proved that using the hand in writing activates many regions in the brain that are related to memory and comprehension. The study aims at displaying the…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Academic Achievement, English (Second Language), Memory
Al-Ghazalli, Mehdi Falih; Al-Shammary, Mohanad A. Amert – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the pragmatic difficulties encountered by Iraqi EFL university students in producing the speech act of apology. Although the act of apology is easy to recognize or use by native speakers of English, non-native speakers generally encounter difficulties in discriminating one speech act from another. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Speech Acts
Direct linkIannone, Carol – Academic Questions, 2006
Our editor-at-large puts questions to a political scientist--the former higher-education advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq--who replies with skepticism about prospects for our efforts to restore a university system in Iraq and reconstitute that troubled society in our image. Building an informed democracy, John Agresto…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Social Change, Futures (of Society)
A New Middle East? A Report of FPRI's History Institute for Teachers. Footnotes. Volume 10, Number 1
Kuehner, Trudy J. – Foreign Policy Research Institute, 2005
Understanding the current conflicts and political changes in the Middle East us important for American educators if American students are to understand the dynamics of the region. To discuss these issues, FPRI held its 12th History Institute for Teachers on October 16-17, 2004. Forty teachers from 15 states attended the weekend program at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, International Relations, Peace
