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Druze Minority Students Learning Hebrew in Israel: The Relationship of Attitudes, Cultural Background, and Interest of Material to Reading Comprehension in a Second Language.
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Abu-Rabia, Salim – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1996
Examines Israeli-Druze students' reading comprehension in Hebrew as a second language as related to their attitudes, cultural background, and interest in the material. Participants were administered questionnaires, Arab and Jewish cultural stories, and multiple-choice questions about each story. Results are discussed. (51 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Arabs, Cultural Background, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries
Attitudes and Cultural Background and Their Relationship to Reading Comprehension in a Second Language: A Comparison of Three Different Social Contexts.
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Abu-Rabia, Salim – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1996
Investigates the relationship of attitudes and cultural background to reading comprehension in the second language (L2) of Israeli Arab students learning Hebrew and Israeli Jewish and Canadian Arab students learning English. Results showed that the motivation of students to learning their L2 was instrumental rather than integrative, regardless of…
Descriptors: Arabs, Context Effect, Cultural Influences, English (Second Language)
Multicultural and Problematic Social Contexts and Their Contribution to L2 Learning.
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Abu-Rabia, Salim – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1995
Studies the relationship of attitudes and cultural background to reading comprehension in a second language (L2) of students in three different social contexts: Israeli-Arab students learning Hebrew as their L2, Israeli-Jewish students learning English as their L2, and Canadian-Arab students learning English as their L2. Results showed that the…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cultural Context, English, Foreign Countries
The Influence of the Israel-Arab Conflict on Israeli-Jewish Students Learning Arabic as a Third Language.
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Abu-Rabia, Salim – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1998
The attitudes of 100 Israeli-Jewish students toward learning Arabic and coexistence with Arabs within Israel were investigated, as was their evaluation of characters they read about in familiar and unfamiliar texts. The students were found to possess low instrumental and low indoors integrative motivation, but their army service motivation and…
Descriptors: Arabic, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools
Toward Understanding the Second Language Learning of Arab Students in Israel and Canada: The Relationship of Attitudes and Cultural Background to Reading Comprehension.
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Abu-Rabia, Salim; Feuerverger, Grace – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1996
Investigated the relationship between cultural background of Arab students in Canada and Israel and reading comprehension of majority and minority group stories. Findings indicate that, in terms of language education, it is essential to develop pedagogies that respond to the diversity of the social contexts in which the learners are situated. (70…
Descriptors: Arabs, Cultural Background, Data Analysis, English (Second Language)
The Influence of Language Anxiety on English Reading and Writing Tasks among Native Hebrew Speakers.
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Argaman, Osnat; Abu-Rabia, Salim – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2002
Examined the influence of language anxiety as measured by a questionnaire on achievements in English writing and reading comprehension tasks. Subjects were native speakers of Hebrew, aged 12-13 years, learning English as a second language.(Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Communication Apprehension, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Hebrew