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The world witnesses a huge movement of change, nowadays, that aims to the reform of the educational systems in both developed and developing countries. A picture of this reform is the inclusion of learners with special educational needs in mainstream schools. The ultimate requirement to achieve such reform is to prepare teachers in mainstream schools to teach learners with special educational needs as most of the teachers, if not all of them, are neither qualified enough to deal with SEN...
Creative writing as a subgenre has been described as an emerging teaching discipline, and its teachability has been the concern of many academics. TESOL teachers face additional obstacles in this field since they deal with teaching the production of original and highly poetic pieces that are written in students’ L2. The purpose of this study was to explore two different teaching methodologies, model texts and visual prompts, employed in the creative writing classroom to measure the effectiven...
The present study investigates the roles of cohesive devices in English and Arabic newspaper opinion editorials and the common patterns that exist between the two languages as far as the use of cohesive devices is concerned. Two famous opinion columnists have been chosen, Thomas L. Friedman and Ahmed Hasan Al-Zubi. Ten articles written by each columnist have been selected using systematic sampling (SS) within which both purposive, criterion-based sampling and random sampling have been used. T...
Urban geometry and buildings morphology are important factors that affect both thermal behaviour of the spatial environment as well as a building’s energy performance. This research aims to explore the effect of the urban block with different building configurations on energy performance at the urban level. For this aim, a literature review was conducted to identify the previous and recent studies relevant to this research topic. It has been proven that the compactness element is a key u...
Understanding what can influence performance of information technology (IT) projects is vital to achieve success in these projects. This research study aims to identify the critical success factors (CSF's) that are required in implementing success information technology (IT) projects in UAE. We have collected factors that are candidate to be suitable for the UAE market by investigating IT project management literature in different countries and domains. The collected factors have been examine...
The purpose of this study was to investigate how teachers perceive an integrated approach for students’ communicative competence in Arabic; and whether teachers are receptive to implementing an integrated approach in the TAFL classrooms and if they identify any potential obstacles to implementing an integrated approach at the private universities in the UAE Northern Emirates. The literature reveals that many studies investigated the students’ perceptions towards learning Modern Standard Arabi...
The issue of including students with disabilities in general schools is getting more and more attention from leadership and educational authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Although initial teacher education for inclusion is an area that has been widely researched on the international level, little is known about how elementary general pre-service teachers with expertise in teaching students with disabilities are prepared in the UAE’s educational context. This exploratory case stud...
Inclusive education is a growing priority on an international and Dubai level. Central to inclusive education is the provision of necessary supports to students with Special Educational Needs or Disabilities (SEND) to ensure they access quality education and reach their fullest potential. In Dubai, shadow teachers’ provisions arise as a common response required by schools to match the obligation to include students with SEND in mainstream schools and provide them with the necessary supports. ...
This dissertation aims to examine how mobile assisted learning can influence the students’ vocabulary retention. This includes the use of iPads and its smart mobile applications in classroom and how much students rely on them to retain the previously learned vocabulary. I have also investigated the use of online dictionaries to measure how effective they can be in a student’s learning journey. This study has been implemented on a group of students and their teachers in a federal university in...
The main purpose of the current study to understand Dubai Private Schools' readiness to adopt successful inclusive education for Students with Special Needs & Disability (SEND) since such students often require direct, special assistance, an immediate address of their needs, appropriate access to curriculum and equal progressive opportunity with other students. The researcher adopts a mixed methodological approach using a survey questionnaire and an interview script for the collection of prim...
Evidence shows that working mothers in today’s world face several challenges such as work demands, domestic responsibilities, and raising children. This research investigates the difficulties working mothers come across in their daily lives. It particularly looks at working mothers in the educational field in the United Arab Emirates. A small-scale study was carried out using both qualitative and quantitative methods in the form of questionnaires and interviews. The main findings revealed...
It is noticeable that the UAE represents a unique context where many social and economic changes have been made over the last few decades. These considerable changes have undoubtedly put pressure on the education sector which has to respond to new demands for varied teachings methods and curricula to be used with all students to meet international standards. On the other hand, there is an obvious need for improvement in schools’ inclusive practices. The expectations of the special and inclusi...
The aim of the study is to investigate the students and teachers’ perceptions about the effects of classroom discussion on teacher’s performance and student’s achievement. The importance of this study comes from the pedagogic reasons that classroom discussions are an effective strategy for learning ought to be imparted to students expressly. Students come into science classes expecting lectures. There are distinctive learning speculations built up in view of how students learn. Among these le...
This Dissertation explores all issues about construction delays, its definitions, causes and impact. Delay is considered as one of the fundamental issues that impinge projects due to its negative impact not only on time of delivery but also due to its associated ramifications, additional cost and losses. Its causes are spanned between the Contractor, Employer, third parties and project conditions. Concurrent delays are considered as one of the law notoriously problematical areas and most com...
Data has beneficial impacts on teachers’ and schools’ performance, hence, it a customary matter for schools since the past time to collect data from a variety of sources. The core of this research is to assess the extent of data availability, its use in decision-making process and assess the decision-making process’s participatory. Other core is to assess the stimulating and hindering factors that affect decision makers’ use of data in Dubai’s public and private secondary schools. ...
Knowledge management (KM)considered as project asset that add value to the projects and organizations as its useful in delivering the project on time , within budget and with high quality standards to satisfy projects owner. The main purpose of this study to (1) investigate the awareness level of the concept of Knowledge Management (KM) in the construction industry in United Arab Emirates (UAE) andthe important benefits of using KM system in both employees and organization, (2) explore the re...
With the current international focus on enhancing and improving STEM education, the United Arab Emirates is one of the developing counties that is paying attention to STEM education. This study was conducted to investigate STEM-related subjects’ teachers’ perceptions and implementations in American-system schools in the UAE. No research has been conducted in the UAE context on this topic. A mixed-methods approach was used to collect data; a questionnaire was developed to examine the perceptio...
It is clear that the population is growing drastically causing an increase in urban development and landscape expansion which as a result increase the demand for water. In the GCC region, water is becoming a threat with the impact of climate change and the lack of water resources. The main source of water is mostly desalination plants. Irrigation system can reduce water consumption but the current system might not solve the issues of water in the near future. This study is an evaluation to th...
Designing a proper daylight is very crucial when it comes to engineering and architecture. Such considerations provide various benefits in terms of increasing visual comfort and decreasing energy demands. The purpose of this study is to develop a new daylight performance metric that is suitable for dynamic facades. To fulfill this purpose, a modified daylight metric has been developed which consists of Dynamic Useful Daylight (DUD) to measure the work plane area that receives a desired day...
Electrical energy consumption is dramatically increasing due to industry developments and expanding of urban areas. Fossil fuels as an energy resource has many environmental and human health effects. Consequently, the demand for utilizing renewable clean energy arises. Wind energy is a significant source of energy since it is clean, renewable, and cost effective in comparison with other renewable resources like photovoltaic which has higher costs in production and maintenance. This research w...
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