Women in economic and social transformation era: Issues and challenges

Abstract

This book was motivated by the desire of the authors to reveal various issues and livelihood strategies of women in developing countries managing current socio-economic challenges as the state of the world is changing rapidly.The changes have brought about problems and opportunities to women globally as women have become one of the key actors in promoting the changes.Women in the developing countries have gone through various phases of socio-economic changes that have changed their roles from family affairs managers to corporate/institutional managers and workers and small and large scale entrepreneurs.However, different from men, the roles as family affairs managers remain even though women have assumed various other roles in government and corporate world.

The Effectiveness of Direct Method in Arabic Language Learning

“…This is in line with the results of research showing that teaching strategies that combine various approaches, methods and techniques, together with creative analogies and adaptation of textbook content according to the student environment will open the way to the best and most effective teaching. 40 The results of other studies show that Grammar Translation Method and Direct Method have obtained the highest percentage (69%), which agrees that both methods have often been applied in practical periods. Besides that, it seems that all of these students are familiar with teaching methods used in teaching and learning process based on a high percentage (95.2%) of their perception of all of these methods.…”