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Download full textDashti, Abdulmohsen A. – International Education Studies, 2017
Language attitudes cover a wide variety of emphases, and the reasons for studying language attitudes attract sociolinguists. Language attitudes may well tackle issues extend to all sociolinguistic and social psychological phenomena, such as how we locate ourselves socially and how we relate to other individuals and groups. They may also shape our…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Motor Vehicles, Statistical Analysis, Negative Attitudes
Benswait, Ahmad Jaber; Pérez-Milans, Miguel – London Review of Education, 2022
In this article, we examine our own doctoral supervisory dialogue as it has been institutionally interrupted due to Ahmad's application for asylum in the UK. As we find ourselves lacking the conditions of recognisability required for our actions to be institutionally understood (or made intelligible) as part of a doctoral supervisory relationship,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Doctoral Programs, Refugees, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship
Alrabah, Sulaiman; Wu, Shu-hua; Alotaibi, Abdullah M.; Aldaihani, Hussein A. – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study investigated English teachers' use of learners' L1 (Arabic) in college classrooms in Kuwait. The purpose of the study was three-fold: (1) to describe the functions for which L1 was employed by the teachers, (2) to explore the affective, sociolinguistic, and psycholinguistic factors that may have led teachers to use L1 in L2 teaching,…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Usage, Native Language, English (Second Language)
Direct linkAl-Fityani, Kinda – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines a project to unify sign languages across twenty-two Arab countries. Proponents of the project, mainly pan-Arab governmental bodies with the support of members of the staff at the Al Jazeera satellite network, have framed the project as a human rights effort to advance the welfare of deaf Arab people. They have urged its…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Official Languages, Deafness, Arabs
Alrabaa, Sami – 1985
An analysis of non-Arabic words used in two Kuwaiti daily newspapers reveals that (1) the newspapers often use loan words instead of their Arabic equivalents to emphasize that they are discussing something European; (2) the number and frequency of loan words relating to objects of daily use are much greater than those of abstract and technical…
Descriptors: Arabic, Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Language Variation
Meinhoff, Michael; Meinhoff, Joan – 1976
This is a collection of papers which discusses characteristics of ESL (English as a Second Language) students in Kuwait. The first chapter, "Oral Communication," notes the extreme facility with which these students communicate in English. Chapter Two, "Names," explains how people in Kuwait are named and addressed. Chapter…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, College Students, Communication Skills, Cultural Differences
