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Browsing by Author "Yazigy, Amal, Ph.D."

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  • Rahme, Lina Antoine (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2008)
    his study compares the performance of six to nine-year old Arabic-English bilingual children from Lebanese private schools to that of their monolingual peers in the English language in the areas of semantic development, awareness of the arbitrary nature of word-referent relationship, divergent thinking, knowledge of grammatical structures, and logical reasoning. The purpose is to find out whether the bilinguals have been positively affected by their bilingualism. The exercises are taken from researchers who conducted their studies after 1960 and believe that bilingualism results in cognitive ...
  • Hojeij, Zeina S. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2005)
    This thesis presents the results of a case study that investigates the use of a variety of teaching methods, based on a multisensory approach, as part of the remediation program of dyslexic students in elementary English classes. In order to do this, a review of the literature surrounding the main concepts of disabilities has been carried out, in which the theory of learning disabilities is explained and then linked to dyslexia. Then, a discussion of the different teaching methods that are used in a dyslexic classroom is presented. A research pilot case study, which is presented in the form of ...
  • Trad, Zeina George (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2007-05)
    Reading is the basis of all activities students do in all school subjects and this skill has been given more attention than any other feature in education. Knowing how to read at school is an important accomplishment in itself for any student's language growth and is the source of success whether in academic years or later in life (DeStefano, 1982, p.388). Since to "read" is to decipher and understand the meaning of letters and symbols (Merriam Webster Online, p.!), comprehension is a key element in this skill. ESL/EFL students find reading in English difficult because they do not understand a ...
  • Touma, Cynthia Romeo (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2017)
    Reading is universally considered as a fundamental cognitive process of acquiring information from written text. Since individuals acquire reading skills differently, there is no single way for teaching reading. For many years, the educational system has valued primarily linguistic and mathematical ways of learning and has placed a stronger emphasis on test scores than on the learners themselves. In 1983, Howard Gardner developed the theory of multiple intelligences (MI), focusing on different intelligences in learning. This study is a qualitative action research that aimed at investigating how ...
  • Hindi, Gizel Hana (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2005)
    This paper reviews empirical research on vocabulary learning strategies and highlights the role of computers in EFL classes. As computers are introduced into schools in Lebanon, it is helpful to examine the effect of this tool on learning vocabulary. This study investigates the effect of electronic glossary and hypertext. Fifty students from the College Des Apotres-Jounieh were subjects for the study.The experimental group read the story, King Solomon's Mines, using a software which was designed to teach vocabulary through electronic glossary. They had access to understanding the meaning of the ...
  • Sarrouf, Raghida (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2007-05)
    Language is the tool used for communication in different fields specifically politics and has provided humans with a wide variety of words to use in their daily lives. Although dictionaries, agreements, declarations, conventions, and organizations give objective definitions, that is. meaning of' every word. Every word has more than a meaning fai it has different connotations resulting from various accumulated experiences, intentions, linguistic factors and non-linguistic factors. Thus, meanings of words reflect different points of view. The focus of this thesis is to deal with how the Lebanese ...