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  • Academic writing in a multilingual context 
    Bacha, Nahla Nola (2016-12-01)
    Although the importance of the writing skill in university course work in comparison with the other skills is sometimes rated differently by students and faculty depending upon varying needs (Johns, 1981; Zughol, 1985; ...
  • A Citizenship through the academic curriculum 
    Bacha, Nahla Nola (2015-10-29)
  • Code-switching in higher education in a multilingual environment 
    Bahous, Rima N.; Nabhani, Mona Baroud; Bacha, Nahla Nola (2015-12-01)
    Research has shown that code-switching (CS) between languages in spoken discourse is prevalent in multilingual contexts and is used for many purposes. More recently, it has become the subject of much concern in academic ...
  • Contrasting views of business students’ writing needs in an EFL environment 
    Bacha, Nahla Nola; Bahous, Rima (2015-10-29)
    This paper reports on a study of business student and faculty views at the Lebanese American University as to the students’ language proficiency levels, writing in particular, and what the specific writing needs are in ...
  • Disciplinary Writing in an EFL context from Teachers’ and Students’ Perspectives 
    Bacha, Nahla Nola (2015-10-28)
    Studies have indicated that EFL students have difficulties in coping with the writing assignments in their university courses. Although studies in Writing across the Discipline and English for Academic Purposes have been ...
  • Discourse on ageing in the autumn of life: language, identity, society and learning in a Lebanese nursing home 
    Ghandour, Hiba; Bahous, Rima; Bacha, Nahla Nola (2015-10-28)
    This article describes a holistic investigation into aspects of the ageing process. It attempts to explore three different areas of enquiry that have served to centre clusters of research in the field: language and ...
  • English Across the Academic and Professional Communities 
    Bacha, Nahla Nola (2015-10-29)
  • Foreign Language Education in Lebanon 
    Bacha, Nahla Nola; Bahous, Rima (2015-10-28)
    Knowing more than one or two languages has always been a natural consequence of cultural exchange. Thus educational institutions the world over have placed teaching/learning of languages high on their agendas as they find ...
  • Gender and Politeness in a Foreign Language Academic Context 
    Bacha, Nahla Nola; Bahous, Rima; Diab, Rula L. (2015-10-28)
    Theories and strategies of politeness and impoliteness are drawn upon to investigate underlying factors that might contribute to an understanding of differences among students and teachers towards politeness strategies. ...
  • High schoolers’ views on academic integrity. 
    Bacha, Nahla Nola; Bahous, Rima; Nabhani, Mona (2015-10-28)
    The issue of academic integrity in cheating on exams and plagiarising in writing is not a new one. All schools need to address this problem and some more than others. In the L2 context, the issues become more complex as ...
  • A lexical corpus based analysis of L2 academic vocabulary 
    Bacha, Nahla Nola; Khachan, Victor (2016-11-30)
    English proficiency tests are devised to assess student readiness for higher academic studies and to maintain institutional standards. Internationally, standardized tests are required by the majority of universities. ...
  • A Match or a Mismatch between Student and Teacher Learning Style Preferences 
    Sabeh, Ghada; Bahous, Rima; Bacha, Nahla Nola; Nabhani, Mona (2015-10-28)
    The purpose of this study is to identify the learning styles of the students enrolled in an American affiliated Lebanese university who are currently registered in intensive English courses and to investigate whether there ...
  • Motivating Students in the EFL Classroom 
    Bahous, Rima; Bacha, Nahla Nola; Nabhani, Mona (2015-10-28)
    Motivating EFL students to develop in the target language is quite complex. In many cases, these students face difficulties in learning English and are often demotivated to learn. Research in classroom motivation has found ...
  • Multilingual educational trends and practices in Lebanon 
    Bahous, Rima; Bacha, Nahla Nola; Nabhani, Mona (2015-10-28)
    This paper reports on the multilingual background, language education policies and practices in Lebanon. Specifically, it shows how the multilingual make-up in the country is translated into language policies in schools. ...
  • Perceptions on the effectiveness of active learning strategies 
    Daouk, Zeina; Bahous, Rima; Bacha, Nahla Nola (2016-11-25)
    Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine students’ and instructors’ perceptions regarding the effectiveness of implementing active learning strategies in higher education courses conducted at a tertiary institution ...
  • Student and teacher perceptions of plagiarism in academic writing 
    Bacha, Nahla Nola; Bahous, Rima (2015-11-04)
    Writing is no easy task in any discipline and at any stage in a student’s course of university study. In addition, it brings with it the important concern of plagiarism. Obtaining student and teacher perceptions of the ...
  • Students reading and viewing the American novel in a university EFL/ESL context 
    Bacha, Nahla Nola (2018-06-05)
    Research has indicated that ESL/EFL (nonnative students of English) students have difficulty in reading at the university as often times the requirements are long texts in which both cultural and linguistic factors impede ...
  • Teacher corrective feedback on EFL writing in the disciplines 
    Bacha, Nahla Nola (2018-06-05)
    Research has indicated that corrective feedback gives positive gains in students’ writing. While there is much being done on the ‘best’ practices in academic writing from English teachers’ and students’ viewpoints, very ...
  • Teaching literary essays to EFL students 
    Bacha, Nahla Nola (2018-06-05)
    Research on L1 Arabic students’ academic writing has indicated a general weakness in organizing their ideas. At the university level, there are certain academic writing genres that are required and which students find ...
  • Teaching literature in English as a foreign language classrooms 
    Bacha, Nahla Nola (2016-05-19)
    There has been much controversy as to the place of literature in the EFL classroom; however, literature is important to students’ personal, linguistic and cultural development. This paper is an attempt to investigate L1 ...