Browsing by Author "Al-Buainain, Haifa"
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Baseline data for Arabic acquisition with clinical applications: Some phonological processes in Qatari children’s speech
( LAR Center Press , 2012 , Article)This paper has two aims. The first is to inform our language acquisition colleagues about the “Baseline Data for Arabic Acquisition with Clinical Applications” project, which is a multi-institutional and international ... -
Borrowed words in Qatari Arabic: A case study of knowledge of meaning and knowledge of origin by Qataris
( University of Akron , 2017 , Article)Linguistic borrowing is a common, universal and intensively studied phenomenon. It is of interest to investigate this practice and its patterns in Qatari Arabic and to know to what extent the Qataris know the meaning and ... -
Borrowed Words In Qatari Dialect: A Case Study
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2014 , Conference Paper)According to Graddol (2004) "The world's language system is undergoing rapid change because of demographic trends, new technology, and international communication. These changes will affect both written and spoken ... -
Creativity/Productivity of Child's Language: A Case of Qatari Dialect
( Qatar University , 1999 , Article) -
Developmental Stages of the Acquisition of Negation and interrogation by Children Native Speakers of Qatari Dialect
( Qatar University , 2002 , Article)The developmental stages of Qatari Dialect interrogatives and negatives are described in this paper. Four children were included in this study, ranging in age from one year and six months to nine years. According to the ... -
Open-ended cloze procedure and multiple - choice cloze procedure: similarties and differences
( 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 relationship between attitudes and achievemet in SL ( a case study of students at the University of Qatar)
( 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 review of process and production in SL studies
( Qatar University , 1990 , Article) -
A short critique of the Crescent English Course
( 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 ... -
Slips of the tongue: Examples from Qatari Dialect
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)There are various abstract units of linguistic performance that linguists hypothesized in order to be able to describe the grammars of languages. These are segments, features, morphemes, words or syntactic categories. Yet, ... -
A study of the interlanguage of some Arabic students of English
( 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 ...
