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 Research Projects

Research Projects
The Arab in American literature

J. M. Cook.

Chad-Woollett youth transformed

An article suggesting new interpretations of a main character in Henry James. J. M. Cook.

The concept of plagiarism among AUB students

M. Ghaleb.

Chretien de Troyes’ Yvain: on medieval narratology

S. Ghaly.

The moving frontier re-considered: Jasmine in America

An article on how and for what purposes, literary and otherwise, the Indian-American writer Bharati Mukherji undercuts the motif of the moving frontier and the stereotype of the intrepid pioneer in nineteenth-century American literature. S. Ghaly.

Sula and Mustafa Sa’eed: or the politics of otherness

A paper probing Morrison’s and Saleh’s two protagonists, with the aim of bringing out their amazing similarities. The article is anchored in the post-structuralist questioning of language, self and identity. S. Ghaly.

Lebanon: sketches from the past

A collection of short stories inspired by nineteenth-century figures and episodes. R. Khalaf.

Exploring the demonic subconscious: Rossetti’s ‘Proserpina’

S. Nassar

Sophocles’s Oedipus the king

S. Nassar

Beckett’s Waiting For Godot and Salih’s Season of Migration to the North

S. Nassar

Wilde’s ‘La sainte courtisanne’

S. Nassar

Of comfort and despair

An annotated anthology of love poetry and poets of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period. L. Precious.

Folk tales of the Druze in northern Syria

Research completed; now in the editing stage. L. Precious.

From high school senior to college freshman

A handbook for freshmen undergraduates. L. Precious.

Assessment and indentification criteria in English-as-a-Second-Language classrooms

K. Shaaban

Evaluation in the new Lebanese English curriculum

K. Shaaban

A model for language planning in Arab countries: Arabicization

K. Shaaban
 
 
 

Articles, Books and Reports

Nassar, S., Anderson’s ‘The Ugly Duckling’ and Wide’s ‘The Birthday of the Infanta.’ The Explicator, 55, 83-85, 1997.

———, On originality and influence: Oscar Wilde’s technique. The Eighteen-Nineties Society Journal, May 1997.

———, The silent priest: Rossetti’s ‘A Last Confession’ revisited. The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, New Series 6, Spring 1997.

Precious, L., Stranzli*, E. and Hanna*, J., Classroom TOEFL. Second Edition. New York: Barrons, 1997.

Shaaban, K., Bilingual Education in Lebanon. In Encyclopedia of Education, Netherlands: Kluwer Publications, 5, 1997.

———, The New English Language Curriculum. CERD, 1997.

Shaaban, K. and Ghaith, G., Language-in-education policy and planning: the case of Lebanon. Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies, 1 (1), 95-105, 1996.

Turk-Iskandarani, R. and Mason-Jabbour, G.*, The new English language curriculum. The Teacher Trainer, 11 (1), 14-16, 1997.
 
 
 

Abstracts, Presentations and Proceedings

Ghaleb, M., In-Service Workshop for English Teachers. Al-Kalaa School, Sidon, Lebanon, 1997.

———, English: The lingua of Lebanon and the world. Near-Eastern School of Theology, 1997.

Ghaly, S., Chaucer’s ‘General Prologue’ in the classroom. The Oxford Teaching Poetry Conference, 1997.

Shaaban, K., Beyond factual comprehension: reading difficulties of Lebanese university-bound students. AILA, Jyvaskyla, Finland, 1996.

———, Testing and classroom teaching. Assessment and Identification Criteria in ESL Programs Around the World, 1997.
 
 

Master’s Theses

Van Nieuwerburgh, C., Beyond good and evil: Shakespeare sympathetic villains; Richard II, Edmond and King Lear (1997). Advisor: L. Precious.
 
 
 
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