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Gunawardana, Anoma Abeywickremasinghe – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2022
Errors are a reflection of competence level of language users. Therefore, with the purpose of understanding the competence level of teachers of English, the present study analyzed errors produced by twenty three non-native English speaking teachers pursuing a Bachelor of Education degree in Sri Lanka. Employing qualitative content analysis method,…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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AlBzour, Naser N. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This paper aims at investigating some phonological aspects of syllable structure in Rumthawi Arabic, a Levantine variety spoken in the northern region of Jordan. It basically sheds light on the OT constraint interaction that determines the surfacing onsets and codas of syllables in this dialect. The scope of this paper is more specifically…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Phonology, Dialects, Syllables
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Al-Momani, Islam M. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The paper aims at examining the role that morphology plays in allowing and/or motivating sentences in Jordanian Arabic (hereafter JA) to be formed with or without subject pronouns. It also aims at giving a comprehensive and descriptive presentation of the distribution of overt and null subject pronouns in JA, and tries to determine to what extent…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Variation, Form Classes (Languages), Foreign Countries
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Geçkin, Vasfiye – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2022
Variability in the form of article (i.e., a and the) omissions and stressing has been attributed to a mismatch between first (L1) and second language (L2) prosodic and syntactic structures. An overlap between the L1 and L2 systems, on the other hand, is expected to contribute to native-like article productions. This case study aims to explore the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages), Syntax
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Epoge, Napoleon – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The meaning of some phrasal verbs can be guessed from the meanings of the parts (to sit down = sit + down, run after = run + after) and the meaning of some others have to be learned (to put up (a visitor) = accommodate, to hold up = cause delay or try to rob someone) due to their syntactic and semantic complexities. In this regard, the syntactic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure
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Aliakbari, Mohammad; Allahmoradi, Nazal – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Basil Bernstein (1971) introduced the notion of the Restricted and the Elaborated code, claiming that working-class speakers have access only to the former but middle-class members to both. In an attempt to test this theory in the Iranian context and to investigate the effect of social class on the quality of students language use, we examined the…
Descriptors: Social Class, Language Usage, Pragmatics, Middle Class