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Almakrob, Ahmed Yahya; Alotaibi, Nayef Shaie – TESOL International Journal, 2020
This study examines the effect of the lexical aspect on the use of the English simple past temporal morphology by Saudi learners of English as a foreign language (EFL), with a particular reference to the Aspect Hypothesis (AH). Data were gathered from 54 Saudi undergraduate EFL learners from five levels (L3-L7), using a production task and a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Grammar
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Mountain, Lee – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2015
Students in a content-area reading course examined the vocabulary of each of their disciplines, focusing on recurrent roots and affixes. They wanted to become teachers of math, science, English, music, and history; therefore, they needed to learn discipline-specific morphemes so they could help their future students figure out new words in their…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Vocabulary, Preservice Teachers, Morphemes
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Clifton, Charles, Jr.; Frazier, Lyn – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
Plural phrases are open to many interpretations in English, where cumulative interpretations of noun and verb phrases are possible without any disambiguating morphology. A sentence like "Every week, the high school kids went to the movies or the ballgame" might involve quantifying over multiple occurrences of a single scenario, in which…
Descriptors: Grammar, Sentences, Verbs, Nouns