Appropriateness of a text for learners of Arabic as a foreign language : a word-based perspective
Dissertant
Thesis advisor
Comitee Members
Smith, Kevin
Shukayri, Abd Allah
Ata Allah, Fadwa
University
Al Akhawayn University
Faculty
School of Science and Engineering
Department
Software Engineering
University Country
Morocco
Degree
Master
Degree Date
2013
English Abstract
The research on readability assessment has been active since the 1920s leading to the creation of many readability formulas and more recently readability tools that are able to assess the level of difficulty of a certain piece of writing with respect to a specific scale.
Numerous languages have benefitted from the work on this area (English, French, Spanish, etc.).
Arabic on the other hand has not been thoroughly researched expect for few studies in the past few years.
Therefore, this thesis focuses on investigating the possible text characteristics that control the assignment of a text to a certain skill stage in Arabic.
Knowing these text features and how they evolve over skill levels of increasing difficulty would allow the evaluation of a reading material in order to assign it to the right audience of learners.
The purpose is to ensure a pleasant learning experience by providing the student with the appropriate reading materials.
This investigation is achieved through the study of texts from a well-known Arabic textbook to extract the significant text features.
These latter are then used to evaluate new texts to identify where they fall in the curriculum.
The proposed text features have been validated through a submission of the labeled texts to Arabic instructors who were able to confirm that the texts are appropriate to their respective skill stages.
Main Subjects
Educational Sciences
Information Technology and Computer Science
Arabic language and Literature
Topics
No. of Pages
93
Table of Contents
Table of contents.
Abstract.
Abstract in Arabic.
Abstract in French.
Chapter One : Work overview.
Chapter Two : Literature review.
Chapter Three : Research framework.
Chapter Four : Data preparation.
Chapter Five : Text characterization.
Chapter Six : Prediction.
Chapter Seven : Conclusion and future work.
References.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Mezouar, Maryam. (2013). Appropriateness of a text for learners of Arabic as a foreign language : a word-based perspective. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Al Akhawayn University, Morocco
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-645037
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Mezouar, Maryam. Appropriateness of a text for learners of Arabic as a foreign language : a word-based perspective. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Al Akhawayn University. (2013).
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-645037
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Mezouar, Maryam. (2013). Appropriateness of a text for learners of Arabic as a foreign language : a word-based perspective. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Al Akhawayn University, Morocco
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-645037
Language
English
Data Type
Arab Theses
Record ID
BIM-645037
