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Paudel, Pitambar – Online Submission, 2022
With the change in socio-political and educational contexts in global academia, the trend of writing academic papers has arisen among Nepali students and educators in higher education. However, many of them are still unfamiliar with the basic standard to be incorporated in an academic paper. In this context, this study examined the post-graduate…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Syntax, Error Patterns, Foreign Countries
Goodwyn, Fara – Online Submission, 2012
Exploratory factor analysis involves five key decisions. The second decision, how many factors to retain, is the focus of the current paper. Extracting too many or too few factors often leads to devastating effects on study results. The advantages and disadvantages of the most effective and/or most utilized strategies to determine the number of…
Descriptors: Syntax, Factor Analysis, Research Methodology, Statistical Analysis
El-Banna, Adel I.; Naeem, Marwa A. – Online Submission, 2016
This research work aimed at making use of Machine Translation to help students avoid some syntactic, semantic and pragmatic common errors in translation from English into Arabic. Participants were a hundred and five freshmen who studied the "Translation Common Errors Remedial Program" prepared by the researchers. A testing kit that…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Translation, Statistical Analysis, Syntax
Zhang, Hong-yan – Online Submission, 2011
The study explains the process of learners' listening comprehension within Halliday's information theory in functional grammar, including the skills of identifying focuses while listening in college English teaching. Identifying information focuses in listening is proved to improve the students' communicative listening ability by the means of a…
Descriptors: Information Theory, Listening Comprehension, College English, Classroom Research
Leavitt, Brynn C. – Online Submission, 2010
What do we do when we read in another language? How do we make sense of the lexical and syntactic structures on the page? This study's development and use of the Miscue Coding for Metacognitive Strategies (MCMS), a foreign language assessment tool, offers language students and instructors a holistic approach to considering these questions. In this…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Reading Strategies, Holistic Approach, Miscue Analysis
Islam, A. K. M. Mazharul – Online Submission, 2011
This study has investigated the interlanguage features in spoken language of four foreigner learners of Bangla. Data has been collected through interviews which were recorded and analyzed. The analysis of the respondents' language has been made in terms of phonetic, morphological and syntactic aspects. The language deviations may be attributed to…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Indo European Languages, Language Processing, Interference (Language)