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  • Contrasting views of business students’ writing needs in an EFL environment 
    Bacha, Nahla; Bahous, Rima; SAS; 198790030; 197902770; English; rbahous@lau.edu.lb; nbacha@lau.edu.lb (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 ...
  • Teaching the academic argument in an EFL environment 
    Bacha, Nahla; SAS; 198790030; English; nbacha@lau.edu.lb (2015-10-29)
    An educational challenge that many university EFL students face is the production of written academic arguments as part of their required essays. Although the importance of argumentative writing in education is uncontested, ...
  • CALL in Lebanese elementary ESL writing classrooms 
    Bacha, Nahla; Bahous, Rima; Fidaoui, Diana; SAS; 198790030; 197902770; English; nbacha@lau.edu.lb; rbahous@lau.edu.lb (2015-10-29)
    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 ...
  • Teaching literature in English as a foreign language classrooms 
    Bacha, Nahla; SAS; 198790030; English; nbacha@lau.edu.lb (2015-10-29)
    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 ...
  • Discourse on ageing in the autumn of life: language, identity, society and learning in a Lebanese nursing home 
    Bacha, Nahla; Bahous, Rima; Ghandour, Hiba; SAS; 198790030; 197902770; English; nbacha@lau.edu.lb; rbahous@lau.edu.lb (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 ...
  • A Match or a Mismatch between Student and Teacher Learning Style Preferences 
    Bacha, Nahla; Bahous, Rima; Nabhani, Mona; Sabeh, Ghada; SAS; 198790030; 197902770; 198129610; English; nbacha@lau.edu.lb; rbahous@lau.edu.lb; mnabhani@lau.edu.lb (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 
    Bacha, Nahla; Bahous, Rima; Nabhani, Mona; SAS; 198790030; 197902770; 198129610; English; nbacha@lau.edu.lb; rbahous@lau.edu.lb; mnabhani@lau.edu.lb (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 ...
  • Foreign Language Education in Lebanon 
    Bacha, Nahla; Bahous, Rima; SAS; 198790030; 197902770; English; nbacha@lau.edu.lb; rbahous@lau.edu.lb (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 ...
  • High schoolers’ views on academic integrity. 
    Bacha, Nahla; Bahous, Rima; Nabhani, Mona; SAS; 198790030; 197902770; 198129610; English; nbacha@lau.edu.lb; mnabhani@lau.edu.lb; rbahous@lau.edu.lb (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 ...
  • Gender and Politeness in a Foreign Language Academic Context 
    Bacha, Nahla Nola; Bahous, Rima; Diab, Rula L.; SAS; 198790030; 197902770; 200103271; English; nbacha@lau.edu.lb; rbahous@lau.edu.lb; rula.diab@lau.edu.lb (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. ...
  • Multilingual educational trends and practices in Lebanon 
    Bacha, Nahla; Bahous, Rima; Nabhani, Mona; SAS; 198790030; 197902770; 198129610; English; nbacha@lau.edu.lb; rbahous@lau.edu.lb; mnabhani@lau.edu.lb (2015-10-28)
    This paper reports on the multilingual background, language education policies and practices in Lebanon. Specifically, it shows how the multilingual makeup in the country is translated into language policies in schools. ...
  • Disciplinary Writing in an EFL context from Teachers’ and Students’ Perspectives 
    Bacha, Nahla; SAS; 198790030; English; nbacha@lau.edu.lb (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 ...
  • Atherosclerosis Initiation Modeled as an Inflammatory Process 
    El Khatib, N.; Genieys, S.; Volpert, V.; SAS; 201104930; Computer Science and Mathematics; nader.elkhatib@lau.edu.lb (2015-10-28)
    In this work we study the inflammatory process resulting in the development of atherosclerosis. We develop a one- and two-dimensional models based on reaction-diffusion systems to describe the set up of a chronic inflammatory ...
  • Solid waste treatment opportunities in the Palestinian authority areas 
    Al Khateeb, Nader; Khatib, Imad; SAS; 201104930; Computer Science and Mathematics; nader.elkhatib@lau.edu.lb (2015-10-28)
    Municipal services in the Palestinian Authority (PA) areas, including the West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS), are facing serious difficulties that have been intensified following the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising in ...
  • Effects of peer- versus self-editing on students’ revision of language errors in revised drafts 
    Mawlawi Diab, Nuwar; SAS; 199629300; English; nuwar.diab@lau.edu.lb (2015-10-27)
    Previous research on the effects of peer-editing in bringing about language development generally examined the linguistic performance of only a few students and did not focus on specific language errors nor used a control ...
  • Assessing the relationship between different types of student feedback and the quality of revised writing 
    Mawlawi Diab, Nuwar; SAS; 199629300; English; nuwar.diab@lau.edu.lb (2015-10-27)
    This paper reports on a quasi-experimental study comparing the effects of peer-editing to self-editing on improving students’ revised drafts. The study involved two intact classes (experimental and control groups) of an ...
  • Palestinian water supplies and demands 
    Al Khatib, Nader; Assaf, Karen; SAS; 201104930; Computer Science and Mathematics; nader.elkhatib@lau.edu.lb (2015-10-27)
    This chapter focuses on the role of fresh water resources in regional and international conflicts, and on mechanisms and principles that can play a role in reducing those conflicts. The adoption of some critical principles ...
  • Non-Newtonian Effects in a Fluid-Structure Interaction Model for Atherosclerosis 
    El Khatib, N.; Génieys, S.; Zine, A. M.; Volpert, V.; SAS; 201104930; Computer Science and Mathematics; nader.elkhatib@lau.edu.lb (2015-10-27)
    The inflammatory process of atherosclerosis leads to the formation of an atheroma plaque in the blood vessel. The interaction between the blood and the plaque may have dangerous consequences such as the rupture of the ...
  • Reaction–diffusion model of atherosclerosis development 
    El Khatib, N.; Génieys, S.; Kazmierczak, B.; Volpert, V.; SAS; 201104930; Computer Science and Mathematics; nader.elkhatib@lau.edu.lb (2015-10-27)
    Atherosclerosis begins as an inflammation in blood vessel walls (intima). The inflammatory response of the organism leads to the recruitment of monocytes. Trapped in the intima, they differentiate into macrophages and foam ...
  • Identification of EDTA-Soluble Polysaccharides from Pea Epicotyl Cell Walls and Their Interaction with Xyloglucan 
    Rizk, Sandra; Baydoun, Elias; Mansour, Sandra; Brett, Christopher; SAS; 199829370; Natural Sciences; sandra.rizk@lau.edu.lb (2015-10-27)
    Nascent pectin and glucuronoxylan were prepared from membrane-bound enzymes obtained from pea epicotyls. They had previously been shown to exhibit a protein- and pH-dependent pattern of binding to cell wall ghosts and to ...

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