• The extraction of positive and negative language transfer factors 

      El Fadil, Hamed El Nil; حمد النيل الفاضل ( Qatar University , 1988 , Article)
      This study aims at exploring the possibility of extracting two language factors, i.e., negative and positive language transfer factors, by means of the statistical technique of factor analysis. One thousand five hundred ...
    • Introduction of EFLPS in an Arab Context 

      Al Mutawa, Najat; Eassa, M. Rifky; محمد رفقي عيسى ( Qatar University , 1997 , Article)
      This study investigates two inter-related topics in foreign language learning. First, it assesses the impact of introducing English as a foreign language in the primary stage curriculum, on the scholastic achievement of ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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. ...