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Al-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)
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Haruka Sophia Iwao; Sally Andrews; Aaron Veldre – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
Evidence of sensitivity to graphotactic and morphological patterns in English spelling has been extensively examined in monolinguals. Comparatively few studies have examined bilinguals' sensitivity to spelling regularities. The present study compared late Chinese-English bilinguals and English monolinguals on their sensitivity to systematic…
Descriptors: Spelling, Morphology (Languages), Monolingualism, Bilingualism
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Schwartz, Geoffrey – Second Language Research, 2023
Two acoustic studies of voice onset time (VOT) in sibilant-stop (ST) consonant clusters, produced by first language (L1) speakers of Polish, are presented. In the first, a baseline study of L1 Polish comparing ST clusters with initial singleton stops, a small degree of VOT shortening after /s/ was found for /p/, but not /t/. The second study…
Descriptors: Phonology, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yanjiao Zhu; Peggy Mok – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This study examines the production of third language (L3) German consonant clusters by 26 L1 Cantonese-L2 English bilinguals, with the aim of uncovering the possible cross-linguistic influences on L3 pronunciation. Learners' production of 17 onset and 21 coda German consonant clusters were auditorily analysed with respect to accuracy and error…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Pronunciation, Sino Tibetan Languages, English (Second Language)
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Barghamadi, Maryam; Rogers, James; Arciuli, Joanne; Han, Weifeng; Muller, Amanda – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
In second language learning research, L1-L2 congruency refers to the similarity in form and meaning of the way a word or phrase is said between two languages. If there is low L1-L2 congruency, the learning burden of a word or phrase can be higher, and thus, such items should be focused on more in teaching to help learners avoid errors. For…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure, Indo European Languages
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David Allen – Language Teaching Research, 2025
When inferring the meaning of unknown words in a second language, learners make use of a variety of cues including the cross-linguistic formal similarities of loanwords and cognates. However, because learners do not always recognize these cross-linguistic relationships, cognate strategy training has been recommended. The present study investigated…
Descriptors: Accuracy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chae-Eun Kim – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2022
This study explores how Korean-to-English machine translation (MT) systems (e.g., Google Translator, NAVER Papago) deal with Korean passive structures. Cross-linguistically, Korean and English passives show different ways to construct passive-voice sentences from active structure. English passives including with [to be + past participle] may have…
Descriptors: Korean, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Eng, Lin Siew; Luyue, Chen; Lim, Chang Kuan – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
Many of the students of the English Language & Communication (ELC) department at UCSI University are Malaysian Chinese (MC) students and International Chinese (IC) students from China. All the courses in the university are conducted in English. Currently, there is still lack of research done on grammatical errors among these students who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Tuc C. Chau – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of the current dissertation is to map the relationships between first language (L1), writing quality, and syntactic complexity, accuracy, lexical complexity, and fluency (CALF) in second language (L2) writing. CALF are characteristics of language production that have been of significant interest in L2 writing research for the past few…
Descriptors: Correlation, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Koptleuova, Kulpash; Khairzhanova, Akhmaral; Jumagaliyeva, Uzim; Baiseuova, Gulnazen; Kurmangalieva, Anar – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
The objective of this study was to identify, describe and classify errors in the Russian and English speech of the native Kazakh speakers working in the oil industry as well as to give a possible explanation of the reasons for their occurrence. The cross-linguistic interference characteristics of the Kazakhs' speech were investigated with the…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Fuels, Employees, Multilingualism
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Mária Spišiaková; Nina Mocková; Natalia Shumeiko – Advanced Education, 2023
Different linguistic classifications of Spanish and Slovak make the differences between these two languages. The genetic criterion classifies languages, clustering them into language families, the largest among which is the Indoeuropean one. The typological criterion divides languages according to their grammatical structures. Meanwhile, Slovak is…
Descriptors: Slavic Languages, Spanish, Interference (Language), Linguistic Theory
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Golpar Bahar; Gero Kunter – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2024
The study explores the extent to which the intrinsic complexity of relative clauses (RCs) and prior linguistic knowledge impact the acquisition of RCs by L2 learners. The study investigates the main sources of the erroneous and avoided types of English RCs produced by Persian-speaking learners of English at three proficiency levels. The data…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Phrase Structure, Error Analysis (Language), Native Language
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Demir, Cüneyt – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
Translation aims to transmit the original tone of the source text both syntactically and semantically accurate without losing the intent of a message. However, some syntactic considerations such as cases may pose a problem particularly if the source and target texts belong to different language typologies. Accordingly, this study investigated the…
Descriptors: Turkish, English (Second Language), Translation, Language Processing
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Arifi Waked; Muhammad W. Ashraf; Hanadi AbdelSalam; Khadija El Alaoui; Maura Pilotti – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2024
Questions exist as to whether AI tools, such as ChatGPT, can aid learning. This study examined whether in-class exercises involving error detection in text generated by ChatGPT can aid students' foreign language writing. Participants were Arabic-English speakers who were classified as ranging from modest to competent English users according to…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Mohammad H. Adam – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Writing proper English sentences poses a significant challenge for Arabic-speaking postsecondary students studying English as a Foreign Language (EFL) due to substantial differences between Arabic and English syntactic structures. This basic qualitative study explored the perceptions of Arabic-speaking EFL learners at an Arabian university…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Arabic
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