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Download full textFarrag, Nahed Moussa – Arab World English Journal, 2022
The present study investigates the frequently used speech acts related to positive and negative politeness techniques employed in requests and apologies by faculty members at King Abdulaziz University. Social interaction on University Campus reflects Hejazi culture located in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia. The significance of the study arises…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Speech Acts, College Faculty, Correlation
Ibrahim, Mohammed Ali Elsiddig – Arab World English Journal, 2022
This research aims to address the syntactic problems that Saudi students confront when translating. The significance of the study is to detect syntactic issues among Saudi Arabian undergraduate students. The question is addressed in the study: what are the syntactic problems that Saudi students confront when translating? The researcher used a…
Descriptors: Syntax, Translation, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2023
Son and daughter metaphorical expressions are common in general as well as technical languages. This study explores the similarities and differences between English and Arabic ibn (son) and bint (daughter) expressions, and the difficulties that student-translators have with them. A corpus of English and Arabic general ibn (son) and bint (daughter)…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Usage, Daughters, Sons
Alshehri, Amira Abdullah – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This study investigates two models of L2 vocabulary acquisition at an advanced L2 level: L1 lemma mediation and the revised hierarchical models. Proponents of the L1 lemma mediation model postulate that advanced L2 learners map L2 words to L1 meanings or concepts, whereas proponents of the revised hierarchical model argue that the increasing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Wahid, Rizwana; Farooq, Oveesa – Arab World English Journal, 2019
This current study aimed to investigate the influence of derivational and inflectional morphological awareness on the writing of undergraduate students studying English as a Foreign Language. They were divided in to two groups and each group comprised 200 advanced EFL learners. Explicit morphological instructions were given to group two in the…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Correlation, Second Language Learning
Amin, Eman Abdel-Reheem – Arab World English Journal, 2019
The present study aimed at developing English as a foreign language (EFL) college students' translation performance through raising their awareness of related syntactic and semantic errors. During the pilot study, the researcher analyzed fifty translated passages from students' assignments. The aim of this systematic analysis was necessary to…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
