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Download full textShutt, Montakarn; Tangkiengsirisin, Supong – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
The purpose of this research is to investigate the variable production of English Object-Experiencer (OE) psych predicates among 80 L1 Thai EFL first-year university students. Psych verbs are notable for posing difficulty for learners due to a unique property that violates Grimshaw's (1990) Thematic Hierarchy. The participants were given a cloze…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Form Classes (Languages)
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2017
A corpus of 300 compounds, i.e. expressions containing "Om" and "Abu" in Arabic was collected and analyzed. Translation students were asked to translate a sample of expressions containing "Om" and "Abu" to English. Results showed that although, "Om" and "Abu" in Arabic literally mean…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Translation, Language Usage, English
Jannatussholihah, Siti; Triyono, Sulis – Online Submission, 2019
This research aims to identify the types of interference and factor of interference. The object of this research is the daily conversations of the students at a University in Indonesia. The research focused on English interference that occurs in Javanese Language and Indonesian Language in everyday conversation. Data is obtained by observation…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Indonesian, Malayo Polynesian Languages
Chen, Mei-Hua – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2019
Lexical competence is considered as an important indicator of language proficiency. While learning vocabulary, learners need to remember various aspects of knowledge about the word (e.g., meaning, form and use). Many vocabulary learning strategies have been proposed to help learners consolidate vocabulary knowledge. Among them, grouping words…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Vocabulary Development, Computational Linguistics, Chinese
Alrishan, Amal; Smadi, Oqlah – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This study aimed at investigating the difficulties that Jordanian EFL University students encounter in translating English idioms into Arabic. The participants of the study were all M.A translation students at Yarmouk University and the University of Jordan who were selected purposefully. The total number of the students who participated in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Zhao, Changhua – English Language Teaching, 2013
In Inner Mongolia, those Mongolian students face lots of difficulties in learning English. Especially the English translation ability of Mongolian students is a weak point. It is worth to think a problem that how to let our students use the English freely on a certain foundation. This article investigates the problems of Mongolian English learners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Translation
Badawi, Mohamed Farrag – Online Submission, 2008
The basic objective of the present study is to investigate EFL Saudi prospective teachers' ability to translate culture-bound expressions and their translation strategy awareness. The study attempted to answer two questions: (1) To what extent are EFL Saudi prospective teachers able to translate culture-bound expressions? (2) To what extent are…
Descriptors: Translation, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers
