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Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
Polysemes are words that have multiple meanings. They exist in all languages as in Arabic [Arabic characters] and English "base," "plant," "system," "present," "left." A sample of Arabic and English polyseme translation errors was collected from homework-assignments and exams to explore the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Translation, English, Semitic Languages
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
English and Arabic have different types of collocations, i.e., groups of words that go together. This study aims to explore the difficulties that Saudi undergraduate student-translators have in translating English word + preposition collocations such as verb + preposition, noun + preposition, and adjective + preposition collocations to Arabic. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Translation, English (Second Language)
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Çanakli, Levent Ali; Bastürk, Sükrü – African Educational Research Journal, 2022
As in teaching other languages, the most difficult of the four basic skills in teaching Turkish as a foreign language is writing; it includes very different strategies from sequencing to analysis and synthesis. In addition, foreign language learners tend to transfer the forms and meanings of their own culture and language to the target language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
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Alnajashi, Sumyah – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2021
This study aims to examine the differences in numerosity estimation on a right-to-left number line between second- to fourth-grade students and undergraduate students, together with whether number-line estimation is related to basic arithmetic tasks (addition and subtraction). Hence, 53 Arabic-speaking children and 63 Arabic-speaking adults…
Descriptors: Computation, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Alshehri, Awad H. – English Language Teaching, 2021
The aim of this paper is to expose the potential difficulties encountered by students learning Arabic as a foreign language (AFL) with a focus on sounds production. The research design was descriptive-analytic. The data was obtained using direct recording and interviews. The sample included 27 AFL students at the Arabic Institutes at IMSIU and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semitic Languages, Second Language Instruction, Phonology
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Alsher, Tasnim – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2021
This study investigated writing errors committed by engineering students at AnNajah National University in Palestine and compared these errors based on school type. It analyzed errors in essays of 54 undergraduate students, 28 attended governmental schools, and 26 attended private schools. Errors were classified based on James's taxonomy. Results…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Achievement, Writing Skills, Error Patterns
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Zaabalawi, Rafe S. – Arab World English Journal, 2021
Prepositions form a hurdle for several EFL learners, Arabs in particular. One major catalyst is that the preposition systems in English and Arabic rarely correspond to one another. Most scholars who researched this area concentrated on the problem itself, rather than finding a successful remedy that can empower these students to masterfully handle…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Farooq, Oveesa – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2019
The fact that English is an internationally intelligible language, and therefore its use in the educational institutions of most non-English speaking countries is stressed upon. This impresses upon us the need of ELT (English Language Teaching) as a second language in such countries. Same is the case with Gulf countries, especially Saudi-Arabia.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Semitic Languages, Syntax
Yakout, Khelf; Amel, Mostari Hind – Online Submission, 2019
The articulation of the consonant sounds /[voiceless dental fricative]/ and /[voiced dental fricative]/ of the English language is a serious pronunciation problem for the Bechari students in general and EFL students at Tahri Mohamed University (UTMB) in particular. It was noticed that EFL students at UTMB manage to use the /t/ and /d/ sounds…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Pronunciation, College Students
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Üstten, Aliye Uslu; Yilmaz, Haci – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2020
In teaching Turkish language as a foreign language, the purpose is to enable the target audience, who have diverse purposes for learning the language, coming from a variety of cultures and languages, to reach such a level that they could understand whatever they listen and read and they could express their feelings, thoughts and dreams verbally as…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Semitic Languages, Turkish, Native Speakers
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Alenazi, Yasir; Chen, Shen; Picard, Michelle; Hunt, Jaime W. – International TESOL Journal, 2021
The English language plays a significant role in Saudi Arabia at the local and international levels. Spelling errors, as one of the challenging elements in writing confronted by Saudi learners of English, have a negative effect on the quality of their written translation products (Ababneh, 2019). Therefore, more analytical studies are needed to…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Translation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Khatter, Sanaa – Arab World English Journal, 2019
This study was conducted to explore and analyze the most common essay writing errors among Saudi female learners at the departments of English, Majmaa'h University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Therefore, the aim has been to identify those difficulties from an error analysis standpoint and identify the sources underlying them. An analysis of a written…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Writing Difficulties, Writing Instruction, Advanced Courses
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2019
This study investigates the effect of Facebook on Arabic language attrition, i.e., decrease in language proficiency, as exhibited in the use of Colloquial instead of Standard Arabic, use of foreign words although Arabic equivalents exist, and committing spelling errors. A sample of Facebook posts and a corpus of spelling errors on Facebook were…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Language Proficiency, Language Usage, Code Switching (Language)
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Sülükçü, Yusuf – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
The present study aimed to identify Turkish language sounds that Arabic native speakers experience pronunciation difficulties with when learning Turkish and make various suggestions on how to resolve this problem. Qualitative research method and observation technique were used in the study. The data were collected in 2016 and the second half of…
Descriptors: Turkish, Phonology, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning
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Mahmoud, Abdulmoneim – English Language Teaching, 2017
Motivated by the conflicting views regarding the use of the dictionary in translation tests and examinations this study was intended to verify the dictionary-free vs dictionary-based translation hypotheses. The subjects were 135 Arabic-speaking male and female EFL third-year university students. A group consisting of 62 students translated a text…
Descriptors: Translation, Dictionaries, Semitic Languages, English (Second Language)
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