The Use of English Idioms in the Performance of Syrian EFL Students at Al-Baath University

This study investigates the problems and difficulties that Syrian EFL undergraduate students face in learning English idioms. The study aims to examine the students' competence in English idiomatic expressions and their ability to predict their meanings in different contexts based on their first language transfer, and whether there is a significant difference between the participants' productive and receptive knowledge of idioms.

Standard Kindergarten Students Ability to Understand the Elementary First-grade Courses (An Experimental Comparative study at Damascus and Homs kindergartens)

This study aimed to identify the level of the efficiency of understanding the curriculum of five-year kindergarteners of the first grade class of the elementary education in both Damascus, and Homs cities for the 2004-2005 term. To achieve this goal, we had to calculate the students reading, writing, and mathematics scores as a total of 1364; where, 516 were kindergarten students, and the other 848 were first grade students. Also we had 217 kindergarten students to take the first grade level test of each of reading, writing, and mathematics.