Project Tags: Arts and Sciences

Research in Spanish Language Learning in Qatar

The purpose of this project is to measure students’ academic writing development in Spanish as they move from Elementary to Advanced Spanish. Learning Spanish at the college level is a…

Qatari English Corpora Construction

This project will result in the construction of two electronic corpora of Qatari English: the first comprised of texts produced by Qatari students in academic contexts; the other, texts produced…

Citizenship lessons in Educational Spaces: Teaching history and civic duties to young South Asians in Qatar

South Asians form the biggest migrant community in Qatar, together they constitute almost 50-60% of the population. The South Asian diaspora is very varied, they practice multitudes of religious faiths,…

Environmental History of the Arabs

(1) Arabic Language Studies; (2) Global Disaster Textbook; (3) Arabic Docuscope; (4) Arabic Environmental History Book; (5) Roman Fever: The Eternal City, Tropical Malaria, and European History For my next…

Innovative Computing and Mobile Technology for Improving English Literacy Skills for Children and for Adults

The contribution of the proposed research is the innovation of computing and mobile phone tools for enhancing English literacy. Low English literacy impedes well-being for several populations. Past studies have…

Improving Professional Communication Skills through an Online Tutorial

Recent workplace studies have shown that a typical professional in a scientific or technical field spends more than half of his/her time communicating technical information to a variety of audiences…

Images of Muslim Women in Translated Mideast Media Sources: A Content and Discourse Analysis

Automated Measurement of Galaxy Morphology

From the latest models of galaxy formation and evolution, it is becoming clear that there is a more fundamental distinction in the galaxy population than the usual classification: elliptical vs.…

Understanding complex physiological problems in medical education

Humans have limited capacities in understanding complex problems with at least one variable developing over time. For instance, adult participants perform poorly in predicting exponential growth (e.g., Wagenaar & Sagaria,…

Effects of Emotional Arousal on Mathematical Learning

Realistic “word” or “story” problems represent one of the most difficult areas of undergraduate mathematics learning (Bessant, 1995). The situation is unfortunate as story problems have the power to stimulate…