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  • Assessing education program learning outcomes 
    Bahous, Rima; Nabhani, Mona (2015-11-04)
    Teacher education programs help teachers gain knowledge and skills, develop ‘new’ attitudes, and impact their beliefs about teaching, thereby favorably affecting teaching outcomes. In the absence of national standards and ...
  • CALL in Lebanese elementary ESL writing classrooms 
    Fidaoui, Diana; Bahous, Rima; Bacha, Nahla N. (2016-05-19)
    This article discusses the effectiveness of using computer assisted language learning (CALL) in motivating fourth-grade English as a second language (ESL) students to develop better writing skills. It also seeks to explore ...
  • 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 ...
  • Cultures of engagement in challenging circumstances 
    Bahous, Rima; Nabhani, Mona; Busher, Hugh (2015-11-04)
    This study of four private primary schools in Beirut, Lebanon, investigated why the children in the schools appeared to out-perform their peers in other schools. The study investigated the cultures that teachers and ...
  • Discourse and Multicultural Social Activity in Postwar Lebanon 
    Bahous, Rima; Khalaf, Roseanne Saad (2015-11-04)
    Some multilingual/multicultural research has debated whether people from diverse backgrounds can go beyond their differences and communicate openly about issues that seem to divide them, and, remain ‘friends’. To explore ...
  • 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 ...
  • Editorial Introduction 
    Bahous, Rima; Thonhauser, Ingo (2016-05-19)
    Introduces a special issue on the complex relationship between multilingualism and education in the Mediterranean region. Articles examine Maltese bilingual education; teaching English in Algeria; shifts in environmental ...
  • Faculty views on developing and assessing learning outcomes at the tertiary level 
    Nabhani, Mona; Bahous, Rima (2018-05-11)
    Assessing students' learning outcomes is on the agenda of higher education institutions seeking improvement of student learning. Faculty members should be well versed in developing and assessing learning outcomes and ...
  • Figures of speech in the physics classroom 
    Nabhani, Mona; Bahous, Rima; Natout, Mahmoud; Saouma, Dahlia (2018-05-11)
    Background: This study investigates the role of figures of speech in the process of conceptual change in the physics classroom. Purpose: Its objectives are to examine what teachers and students perceive to be the advantages ...
  • 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. ...
  • Gender Bias in Lebanese Language Classes 
    Bahous, Rima; Mougharbel, Ghada (2016-05-19)
    Gender bias, though often implicit and unnoticed, exists in many forms and in different situations. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether gender bias exists in Lebanese language classrooms. Semi-structured ...
  • 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 ...
  • " I Am in Grade One and I Can Read!" The Readers' Workshop 
    Bahous, Rima; Mounla, Ghina; Nabhani, Mona (2015-11-04)
    This study analyzed the effects of the implementation of the readers' workshop on students' reading levels and comprehension skills in a first-grade, mixed-ability classroom in Lebanon. The instruments used at the beginning ...
  • Impact of Read_aloud in the Classroom 
    Nabhani, Mona; Bahous, Rima; Oueini, Hanane (2016-03-29)
    This study was conducted over ten weeks with fifty three 5 to 6 year-old kindergarteners from economically disadvantaged homes learning French as a second language. The read-aloud strategy consisted of two teachers reading ...
  • Improving schools for social justice in Lebanon 
    Bahous, Rima; Nabhani, Mona (2015-11-03)
    In this article, the researchers discuss school improvement for social justice in Beirut, Lebanon. They introduce the Lebanese context: its schooling systems, the revised Lebanese National Curriculum, and the issues under ...
  • Lebanese teachers’ views on ‘continuing professional development' 
    Bahous, Rima; Nabhani, Mona (2015-11-03)
    This study elicits Lebanese teachers’ views on Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Seven hundred and thirty‐nine teachers from across Lebanon responded to semi‐structured questions about personal and school efforts ...
  • 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 ...
  • Men's talk in a Lebanese shisha café 
    Bahous, Rima; Fidaoui, Diana (2015-12-01)
    This qualitative study explores the relationship between gender identity and conversational behavior in all-male groups' interactions in a Lebanese context. We collected the data through non-participant observations and ...
  • 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 ...

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