Amjad Owais

Al Ain University

Recent Muslim immigrant mothers struggle to keep their children faithful to Islam while attending American schools. This paper discusses the societal advantages of accommodating these children, and it examines portions of an earlier qualitative study validating and supporting their experiences and practices. That study identified themes of nurturin...

This qualitative case study was conducted in two private schools in Abu Dhabi/United Arab Emirates to explore EFL teachers’ perceptions of the effectiveness of implementing Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) in teaching grammar. In addition, this research aimed to investigate the challenges towards TBLT implementation in EFL classrooms. To collect...

Motivation has long been recognized as a critical component of language learners' success. According to Self-Determination Theory (SDT), an autonomously motivated student is more likely to be engaged in a learning activity. As the learners' needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness ought to be accommodated, these basic psychological needs of...

This study was conducted to investigate the impact of the grammar translation method (GTM) as a strategy to achieve the educational objective of teaching English manner adverbs to Arab students. This study compares specific parts of speech in both languages. A pre-test of five sentences with adjectives to be changed into manner adverbs in English w...

This study is of three-fold. The first provides a general overview of the history and importance of “Technical and Vocational Education and Training” (TVET); the second compares TVET in The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the United Kingdom (as a pioneer country in the field) in order to explore points of similarity and differences and to make recom...

The paper proposes the use of an activity-based approach to acquiring the competencies of software engineering with the help of the author’s model of level acquiring professional competencies. The approach allows the teacher to organize training software engineering so that students acquire needed knowledge, skills and abilities on the basis of a s...