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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
Inansugan, Kei; Sajonia, Kethelle; Pastolero, Nelson – Online Submission, 2021
This study mainly explored the use of Discourse Markers (DMs) in journalistic writings and the factors that prompted the BSED English students of CVSC Maragusan to commit errors. This study employed the qualitative research. Ten (10) informants were part of the writing assessment and phone interview and were chosen through purposive sampling. For…
Descriptors: Journalism, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Yaseen, Ahmed Abdoualzhraa; Ismail, Kemboja; Yasin, Mohamad Subakir Mohd – Arab World English Journal, 2018
This study investigates the syntactic errors in speaking among an Arab L2 post-graduate student in an academic speaking context. Specifically, the objectives are to describe the syntax error patterns committed by the student while engaging in speaking and to explore the contributing factors that may affect the errors. To address these objectives,…
Descriptors: Syntax, Error Analysis (Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Anwardeen, Nor Hafizah; Luyee, Eunice Ong; Gabriel, Joanna Indra; Kalajahi, Seyed Ali Rezvani – English Language Teaching, 2013
This paper analyzes the results of a corpus-based study on the usage of metadiscourse in argumentative writing by Malaysian college students. The aims of the study is to examine the frequency and distribution of metadiscourse used by the particular students in argumentative writing as well as to analyze the errors that made by the particular…
Descriptors: College Students, Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Error Patterns
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Jishvithaa, Joanna M.; Tabitha, M.; Kalajahi, Seyed Ali Rezvani – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2013
This research paper aims to explore the usage of the English Auxiliary "Be" Present Tense Verb, using corpus based method among Malaysian form 4 and form 5 students. This study is conducted by identifying and classifying the types of errors in the Auxiliary "Be" Present Tense verb in students' compositions from the MCSAW corpus…
Descriptors: Morphemes, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Second Language Learning
Misieng, Jecky – ProQuest LLC, 2013
As a result of growing attention in cross-cultural research, existing measurement instruments developed in one language are being translated and adapted for use in other languages and cultural contexts. Producing invariant measurement instruments that assess educational and psychological constructs provide a way of testing the cross-cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Translation, Psychometrics
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Arjan, Asmeza; Abdullah, Noor Hayati; Roslim, Norwati – English Language Teaching, 2013
This corpus-based study examined the usage, mastery and developmental pattern (Norwati, 2004) of English prepositions of place, "in" and "on" across three different academic levels namely Form 4, Form 5 and College students. The Malaysian Corpus of Students Argumentative Writing (MCSAW) was used as the source of data in…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Nayan, Surina; Jusoff, Kamaruzaman – International Education Studies, 2009
Students in higher learning institutions need to write lots of reports based on the projects done. Since they are at the tertiary level of education, they are required to use English in their reports. This is to ensure that they are able to function well in English later at the workplace. Writing requires students to apply rules regarding sentence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Verbs, Form Classes (Languages)