• Listening Comprehension as a Complex Skill and the Sub-Skills Involved in the Process of Speech Perception 

      Al Musalli, Alaa ( Qatar University , 2001 , Article)
      The skill of listening comprehension (LC) has been studied and discussed by many scholars, who have made it quite clear that it is one of the most influential and important skills that we depend on in learning and ...
    • Metalinguistic Knowledge And Formal Functional Proficiency In English: The Case Of Basic Education Stage Learning In Jordan 

      Abdul Fattah, Hussein S.; محمد, حسين عبد الفتاح ( Qatar University , 1998 , Article)
      The present study aimed at assessing Jordanian 10th graders' metalinguistic knowledge of 15 English grammatical concepts or categories via rule description and exemplification as well as the link between the achieved ...
    • Morphological descriptive analysis of Qatari Arabic nouns. 

      Al Easa, Noor Sultan ( Qatar University , 1993 , Article)
      Qatari Arabic is a form of the Arabic language It is used by the native speakers of Qatar as a dialect of Arabic. The social structure of the Qatari society is very similar to those of the Arabian Peninsula in origin. ...
    • Negation & Sentence comprehension 

      Eassa, M. Rifky [محمد رفقي عيسى] ( Qatar University , 1984 , Article)
      18 Egyptian university graduates enrolled in TEOSL program, with approximately the same score on an objective test for their level, were presented with 8 variations of eight sentences (64 in all). Each sentence consists ...
    • Open-ended cloze procedure and multiple - choice cloze procedure: similarties and differences 

      Al-Buainain, Haifa; البوعينين, هيفاء ( Qatar University , 1991 , Article)
      This paper is a validation of two cloze procedures: Open-Ended and Multiple-Choice (henceforth OE and MC respectively). Open-Ended and Multiple-Choice tests on the same text were administered to 60 English majors in their ...
    • The productivity of #Ness and +ity 

      Al Easa, Noor Sultan ( Qatar University , 1993 , Article)
      The theme of this paper is associated with word -formation rules that deal with productivity; however, the main discussion will be limited to morphological productivity. If a WFR is productive, then the native speaker can ...
    • The relationship between attitudes and achievemet in SL ( a case study of students at the University of Qatar) 

      Al-Buainain, Haifa; Al-Emadi, Darwish ( Qatar University , 1998 , Article)
      Attitudes and motivation are considered important factors in Language Acquisition (LA). Learners' attitudes towards speakers ofTarget Language (TL) and the TLitselfhave been the subject of intensive research in applied ...
    • A short critique of the Crescent English Course 

      Al-Buainain, Haifa; البوعينين, هيفاء ( Qatar University , 1988 , Article)
      This paper is a short critique of the "Crescent English Course", Pupils Book 2. It falls into two parts. The first is information about the course; its aims, organization and some of its general characteristics. The second ...
    • Some Theoretical Aspects of the Reading Process 

      Walton, David J. A. ( Qatar University , 1979 , Article)
    • A study of the interlanguage of some Arabic students of English 

      Al-Buainain, Haifa; البوعينين, هيفاء ( Qatar University , 1988 , Article)
      In this study, the contrastive analysis method is used to investigate the lnterlanguage (IL) developmental sequences of the acquisition of some aspects of English by Arabic-speaking learners. The learners, whose language ...
    • The teaching of language functions as systematic objective based aproach 

      El Fadil, Hamed El Nil; حمد النيل الفاضل ( Qatar University , 1985 , Article)
      At present many foreign language educators derive their wisdom in matters of classroom teaching mainly from linguistics and its related fields of psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics and hardly consult mainstream ...
    • The teaching of new language items 

      Al Fadil, Hamed El Nil ( Qatar University , 1984 , Article)
      In the early days of SUFL * teaching and when the Grammar-Translation method was queen of the day, vocabulary occupied a prominent position in SUFL programmes. However, the fortunes of vocabulary soon changed with the ...
    • Testing positive and negative language transfer through the use of factor analysis 

      El Fadil, Hamed El Nil [حمد النيل الفاضل] ( Qatar University , 1990 , Article)
      This paper attempts to verify the results of the first study in this series ( Hamed El Nil El Fadil, 1988) which extracted two factors from the scores obtained by 1 .544 subjects in their attempt to form five wh-questions. ...
    • THE INTERLINGUAL ERRORS OF ARAB STUDENTS IN THE USE OF ENGLISH BINOMIALS 

      Mohamed, Abdul minam Mahmod [عبد المنعم محمود محمد] ( Qatar University , 2003 , Article)
      This study focuses on the interlingual errors made by adult Arab learners in the use of the English binomials. Thus, it adds one more area to those where language transfer has been reported. A total of 73 binomials were ...
    • Tonal and Structural Symbols in Modern fiction-analysis and interpretation. 

      McCarthy, Shaun ( Qatar University , 1981 , Article)
      No critical concept in common use is more vaguely defined than is the symbol. In this article I propose to distinguish between structural and tonal symbolism, and to establish the distinction through the analysis of a ...
    • آراء الطلاب نحو مناهج وطرق تدريس برنامج اللغة الإنجليزية في جامعة الملك فيصل 

      Al Qahtani, Duleim Masoud [دليم مسعود القحطاني] ( Qatar University , 2004 , Article)
      تهدف هذه الدراسة المسحية إلى وصف وتحليل آراء طلاب برنامج اللغة الإنجليزية المكثف بجامعة الملك فيصل حول مناهج وطرق تدريس البرامج المذكور بغية تطويره. بلغ عدد أفراد العينة 308 طالب وطالبة يمثلون كل طلاب السنة التحضيرية في ...