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Peer reviewedAbu-Rabia, Salim – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1995
Reading comprehension experiments suggest that cultural content means little to Arab students reading in a second language (English). The students did just as well or better reading stories with no Arabic content. The study also found significant differences in the learning strategies of male and female Arab students. (MJP)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Arabs, Cultural Background, Cultural Interrelationships
