عنوان

From text to context: Literacy practices of native speakers of Arabic in Arabic and English

Number

TL48893

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

From text to context: Literacy practices of native speakers of Arabic in Arabic and English

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Ghada Gherwash

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Silva, Anthony

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Purdue University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

191

Text of Note

Committee members: Berns, Margie; Roberts, Felicia; Staples, Shelley

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-04593-2

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

English

Body granting the degree

Purdue University

Text preceding or following the note

2016

Text of Note

Previous studies that looked at the written product of native speakers of Arabic in their second language (L2), English, have identified traces of Arabic rhetoric (L1), mainly Classical Arabic, in their writing (e.g., Atari, 1983; Kaplan, 1966; Ostler, 1987). These studies focused primarily on the L2-written texts, where the written product is used to make inferences about the rhetorical structures of the writers' L1. The results from these studies portrayed the native-Arab writer's text as highly influenced by Classical Arabic. This was evidenced by "foreign" rhetorical structures that Arab writers employ when producing texts in their L2 that are considered trademarks of Classical Arabic. This unitary picture of the native-Arabic writer remained intact in later studies (e. g., Abu Radwan, 2012; Connor 1996). However, none of these studies looked at the possible influence of the remarkable difference between written and spoken forms of Arabic on such rhetorical transfer. Nor did they look at the potential impact of cultural, historical, sociopolitical, and institutional factors on how literacy is acquired, practiced, and valued in the Arab world.

English as a Second Language; Interviews; Literacy; Arabic language; College students; Cultural factors; Rhetoric; Regional dialects; Middle Eastern studies; Native speakers; Writing instruction; Socialization; Second language writing

Subject Term

Social sciences;Education;Algeria;Arab second language writers;Arab world;Arabic;Jordan;Kuwait;Literacy;Saudi Arabia;Second language writing;Yemen

Krauter, Emily C.

Silva, Anthony

Subdivision

English

Purdue University

Call Number

1815557046; 10149493

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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