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Ramalingam, Selvajothi; Krishnan, Isai Amutan; Suppiah, Puspalata C.; Maruthai, Elanttamil – Asian Journal of University Education, 2020
The present study was conducted to analyse the use of word order in job interviews. The data was collected from participants in an organisation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Ten candidates of different races between the ages of 23 and 25 participated in the study. Radford's syntactic theory of word order was employed to qualitatively analyse the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Word Order, Employment Interviews, Job Applicants
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Zamin, Ainul Azmin Md; Hasan, Raihana Abu – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
Abstract as a summary of a dissertation harbours important information where it serves to attract readers to consider reading the entire passage or to abandon it. This study seeks to investigate the "backward translation" of abstracts made by 10 randomly selected postgraduate students. This research serves as a guideline for students in…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Nouns, Indonesian Languages, Translation
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Woon, Chai Ping; Yap, Ngee Thai; Lim, Hui Woan; Wong, Bee Eng – Journal of Education and Learning, 2014
Sentence repetition (SR) tasks have been used to measure children's expressive language skills in normal and abnormal language development, and to examine the development of the speaking skills in second language acquisition, as well as to survey the proficiency of bilingual language development. Recently, SR tasks have been recognized as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Mandarin Chinese
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Kwan, Lisa S. L.; Yunus, Melor Md – English Language Teaching, 2014
Writing is a complex skill and one of the most difficult to master. A teacher's weak writing skills may negatively influence their students. Therefore, reinforcing teacher education by first determining pre-service teachers' writing weaknesses is imperative. This mixed-methods error analysis study aims to examine the cohesive errors in the writing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Skills
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Hassan, Sharifah Zakiah Wan; Hakim, Simon Faizal; Rahim, Mahdalela; Noyem, John Francis; Ibrahim, Sueb; Ahmad, Johnny; Jusoff, Kamaruzaman – English Language Teaching, 2009
This study explores Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Sarawak graduating students' oral proficiency, focusing on grammatical accuracy. Oral proficiency in English has always been the benchmark of language proficiency, and in the context of UiTM's language teaching curriculum, efforts to enhance students' oral proficiency are implemented through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning