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Using High Variability Phonetic Training as a Contextualized Tool in the Development of English Consonant Clusters Pronunciation among Saudi EFL Learners
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Hassan Saleh Mahdi; Reem Alkhammash; Anwar A. H. Al-Athwary – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Pronouncing English clusters may be challenging for Arab English learners. Technology-based strategies can be used to improve their pronunciation of English consonant clusters. This study examined how high variability phonetic training (HVPT) can be used to improve the pronunciation of consonant clusters among English as a foreign language (EFL)…
Descriptors: Pronunciation Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
The Relationship between Depth of Academic English Vocabulary Knowledge and Academic Success of Second Language University Students
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Alsahafi, Morad – SAGE Open, 2023
This study investigates the relationship between depth of academic vocabulary knowledge and academic success among Saudi English-as-a-foreign-language university students. Fifty fourth-year university students majoring in English completed a vocabulary depth test, the Word Associates Test (WAT), based on the Academic Word List (AWL). Then,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
The Impact of Word Walls on Improving the English Reading Fluency of Saudi Kindergarten's Children
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AlShaiji, Ohoud Abdullatif; AlSaleem, Basma Issa – Education, 2014
The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of Word Walls on improving the English reading fluency of Saudi kindergarten's children. The present study attempted to answer whether there was a statistically significant difference (a = 0.05) between the Saudi children's subjects' mean score on the English reading fluency test due to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Reading Fluency, Reading Instruction
Vocabulary Input from School Textbooks as a Potential Contributor to the Small Vocabulary Uptake Gained by English as a Foreign Language Learners in Saudi Arabia
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Alsaif, Abdullah; Milton, James – Language Learning Journal, 2012
Research repeatedly reports very little vocabulary uptake by English as a foreign language (EFL) learners in public schools in Saudi Arabia. Factors such as the teaching methodology employed and learner motivation have been suggested to explain this but a further explanation, the vocabulary input these learners receive, remains uninvestigated. An…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Textbooks, Criterion Referenced Tests, Foreign Countries