Affective factors, such as anxiety, are located among the obstacles that hinder language learning and can result in learners who resistant to input, especially foreign contexts. Thus, current research effort aimed at examining level of speaking anxiety (English Arabic) Birzeit University (BZU). It also investigating effectiveness using online tasks on lowering students whose attitudes were surv...

OBJECTIVE The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is widely used to screen for anxiety and depression. A large literature is citable in support of its validity, but difficulties are increasingly being identified, such as inexplicably discrepant optimal cutpoints and inconsistent factor-structures. This article examines whether these problems could be due to the construction of the HADS...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of a clinic-based pediatric literacy intervention on a multilingual population. BACKGROUND Clinic-based literacy interventions are effective among English- and Spanish-speaking children. No data exist for multilingual populations. SETTING Pediatric clinic in an urban county hospital. Design/Methods. Reading practices of 2 cross-sectional groups were ass...

An abstract of the thesis of Jennifer Weber for the Master of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences presented June 7, 2007. Title: Voice Onset Time (VOT) Of Voiced and Voiceless Initial Stops and Initial /s/+Stop Consonant Clusters in Monolingual English-speaking Adults and 4-