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Ansah, Richard; Agbaglo, Ebenezer; Mensah, Regina A. T. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2021
This study explored the differences in the writings produced by both male and female students in colleges of education in Ghana with respect to syntactic complexity. The study was based on a corpus of two hundred examination essays which were collected from two hundred students in Assin Fosu, Wesley and Presbyterian colleges of education who took…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Sentence Structure, Writing (Composition)
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Fuli, Liu; Shuang, Song – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study investigates the learning situation of senior high school students in mainland China about acquisition of transferred negation of English sentence structure. Through translation test and questionnaire investigation, a survey is made about this language learning phenomenon among 173 students. From the study it is found that students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, English (Second Language), Syntax
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Nair, Subadrah Madhawa; Hui, Liang Lok – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2018
The first objective of this study is to identify the types of errors made by students in their ESL writing. The second objective is to compare the types of errors (overall, spelling, mechanics, grammar, coherence, sentence structure and lexical) in descriptive writing, according to gender. The third objective is to explore an ESL teacher?s views…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spelling
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Mubaideen, Taghreed – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This paper aims at investigating the influence of neutral gender words on translating job titles from English language into Arabic Language. This qualitative research includes 20 postgraduate students doing their M.A in Applied Linguistics at the Department of English Language and Literature at Mu'tah University for the academic year 2015/2016.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Translation, Semitic Languages