Ruwaida Abu Rass

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Beit Berl College

This quantitative and qualitative research study investigates the contribution of the course Multiculturalism in Literature on Arab Muslim graduates of the B. Ed program, majoring in teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in a teacher training college in the central part of Israel. The research participants took the course in their second yea...

This study focuses on attempting to understand the challenges that arose during an induction workshop of Arab noviceEFL teachers in Israel that was run by a Jewish facilitator.

This book contains detailed theoretical information as well as practical strategies, techniques and pedagogical tips. It also includes analysis to the problems and challenges that face ESL/EFL students in general and Arab learners in specifijic. The book could be of interest not only to EFL researchers in academic writing, writing instructors, EFL e...

This quantitative and qualitative research study investigates the contribution of the course Multiculturalism in Literature on Arab Muslim graduates of the B. Ed program, majoring in teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in a teacher training college in the central part of Israel. The research participants took the course in their second yea...

This study investigates the challenges that L1 Arabic EAP students experience in creating coherent texts, specifically concerning the use of the systemic functional linguistics (SFL) notion of Theme. Data included twenty-two writing samples of eleven students throughout a year-long academic writing course. The texts were analyzed for marked Themes,...

This research investigates employing contrastive analysis (CA), text analysis (TA), error analysis (EA) and advanced technology for helping Palestinian Arab Muslim students in Israel to write their final projects, research articles (RAs). They face tremendous diffi­culties in writing their final research papers, especially providing a theoretical b...

This chapter sheds light on the development of Arabic language learning policies in Israel in the twenty-first century, which have been affected and shaped by historical and political factors. While providing an overview of the development of historical events, the chapter shows how the implications of these policies and historical events affected...

The role of English in Israel is important to the country’s prosperity. However, Arab students’ results are low on national exams, which could be due to a variety of factors. This paper focuses on the training of Arab English teachers as per the directives of the Ministry of Education, particularly the Academic Class practicum. Using both Legitimat...

The term multiculturalism is defined, and the emergence of policies of multiculturalism in countries of immigrants and Native communities, such as the U.S., Australia and Canada is discussed. This paper discusses the historical obstacles in terms of colonialism and neoliberalism that challenge the fostering of multicultural education in contemporar...

This study aimed to investigate problems facing Palestinian Arab students from Israel who are majoring in teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in developing well-written paragraphs in English. They usually transfer the stylistic features of their first language, Arabic to the target language, English. For example, they tend to write long se...

The Bedouin in Israel and First Nations peoples in Canada, particularly those who live in isolated areas in the northern territories have a lot in common. They are marginalized and suffer from many social, economic problems as well as having poor housing conditions. In addition, their educational achievements are lagging behind the national average...

The Bedouin in Israel and First Nations peoples in Canada, particularly those who live in isolated areas in the northern territories have a lot in common. They are marginalized and suffer from many social, economic problems as well as having poor housing conditions. In addition, their educational achievements are lagging behind the national average...

This paper reports the results of a qualitative research study designed to examine the effects of guided written and oral reflections for developing reflective thinking skills 1 among Arab-Muslim female student teachers in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher education program in Israel. Guidance was provided in the framework of a one-yea...

This paper reports the results of a study that had been conducted to examine the successfulness of carrying out a project of integrating human values in EFL classrooms in two years in a row. It was part of the practical work of Arab student teachers who are majoring in Teaching English as a Foreign (EFL) in a teacher training college in Israel. The...

This paper reports the results of a qualitative research study designed to examine the effectiveness of an attempt to make a conceptual change among pre-service teachers to their role as trainees and the role of their pedagogical advisor. The participants are six Arab-Muslim female student teachers who are highly influenced by their first learning...

Formal and mandatory induction programmes have been widely implemented in many countries to support newly qualified teachers as they cope with the stress and professional demands of their first year in the profession of teaching. This article presents the results of a quantitative and qualitative research study which examined the context of a manda...

This paper reviews and strengthens the data on cultural transfer by Arab Muslim students writing in English and adds the significant element of the cultural impact of Islam on such writing. This qualitative study examines the writing of 18 teacher trainees at an Arab language teacher training college in Israel. Results point to a strong cultural in...

This paper describes two attempts of preparing Arab junior high school pupils to perform on the stage by Arab female student teachers who are pursuing their teaching practice in traditional Arab classrooms in the center of Israel. Following the pedagogical adviser's initiative, the student teachers trained two groups of junior high school pupi...

This research has shown that the use of authentic children’s literature is an effective and motivating ESL classroom strategy. However, this study investigated the use of children’s stories in EFL elementary classrooms where the teaching methods are very traditional and the resources are limited. This study was carried out in an elementary school i...

This article presents the results of a two‐year research study which examined the usefulness of the induction programme for newly recruited teachers in Bedouin schools in the Negev as a unique environment and home for the Bedouin. Bedouin schools are considered a unique environment, where pupils attend schools in recognised and non‐recognised villa...

This study reports on the relationships between learning strategies and socio-educational and cultural variables in three educational settings: The Academic College for Education in Haifa, The Academic Arab Institute for Teaching and Teacher Education at Beit Berl College and The College of Education in Gaza. All of the subjects are Palestinians; h...

Writing is a difficult skill for native speakers and nonnative speakers alike, because writers must balance multiple issues such as content, organization, purpose, audience, vocabulary, punctuation, spelling, and mechanics such as capitalization. Writing is especially difficult for nonnative speakers because they are expected to create written prod...