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Download full textAl-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
English and Arabic have different types of collocations, i.e., groups of words that go together. This study aims to explore the difficulties that Saudi undergraduate student-translators have in translating English word + preposition collocations such as verb + preposition, noun + preposition, and adjective + preposition collocations to Arabic. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Translation, English (Second Language)
Yakout, Khelf; Amel, Mostari Hind – Online Submission, 2019
The articulation of the consonant sounds /[voiceless dental fricative]/ and /[voiced dental fricative]/ of the English language is a serious pronunciation problem for the Bechari students in general and EFL students at Tahri Mohamed University (UTMB) in particular. It was noticed that EFL students at UTMB manage to use the /t/ and /d/ sounds…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Pronunciation, College Students
Peer reviewedPichette, François; Lesniewska, Justyna – Online Submission, 2018
Following a surge in the 1970s of research on the role played by the L1 in L2 acquisition, Ellis (1985) compiled ESL studies in which the percentage of L1-based errors was provided. He concluded that, according to available research findings, approximately one third of ESL errors appear to be due to L1 influence. For more than 30 years, that…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Error Patterns
Tanpoco, Manuel R.; Rillo, Richard M.; Alieto, Ericson O. – Online Submission, 2019
Language transfer is an invasive term that has led to varied interpretations and research practices of it. This paper attempted to find out interlanguage transfer errors evident in the written outputs of CEU's three bigger schools/colleges and their implications to the new educational program of the Philippines, the Senior High School of the K to…
Descriptors: Secondary School Curriculum, Error Patterns, Writing (Composition), Grammar
Tejada Reyes, Venecia – Online Submission, 2019
The following work tries to analyze the possible fossilization errors of the students when acquiring a second foreign language. For this purpose, two languages have been chosen: maternal (Spanish) and foreign (English). In the present work we have examined the effects of the Spanish language and the English language when learning another language…
Descriptors: High School Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Forteza Fernandez, Rafael Filiberto; Korneeva, Larisa I. – Online Submission, 2017
Based on Selinker's hypothesis of five psycholinguistic processes shaping interlanguage (1972), the paper focuses attention on the Russian L2-learners' overreliance on the L1 as the main factor hindering their development. The research problem is, therefore, the high incidence of L1 transfer in the spoken and written English language output of…
Descriptors: Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Interlanguage
