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Almoabdi, Rahaf Bandar – Online Submission, 2023
Because vocabulary knowledge is considered the building block of language learning, any difficulties concerned with vocabulary can harm the overall vocabulary acquisition process. Literature suggests that native Arabic speakers struggle to notice vowels while reading English texts. This can result from the differences between L1 and L2 linguistic…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Vowels, Arabic
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Marga Stander; Hazel Sivell – Sign Language Studies, 2025
This article aims to identify common errors made by hearing students learning South African Sign Language (SASL) and enhance the understanding of language acquisition in this context. The researchers formulated three hypotheses, attributing errors to vocabulary gaps, misunderstandings due to improper signing, and the dual impact of spoken and…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Error Patterns, Hearing (Physiology)
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Wagdi Rashad Ali Bin-Hady; Arif Ahmed Mohammed Hassan Al-Ahdal; Samia Khalifa Abdullah – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: English as a foreign langauge (EFL) students find it difficult to apply the theoretical knowledge they acquire on translation in the practical world. Therefore, this study explored if training in pretranslation techniques (PTTs) (syntactic parsing) as suggested by Almanna (2018) could improve the translation proficiency of Yemeni EFL…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Huan Zhang – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Continuation Task, which closely links language inputs and outputs, is considered to be an effective method in foreign language learning. This paper is an empirical research that investigates the effects of interaction and alignment of Continuation Task in Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) writing. The participants are a total of 30 Cambodian…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cambodians
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Ohood Swar; Mohammed Mohsen – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Over the past few years, many studies have examined the cognitive processes of students when translating texts from one language to another. However, little is known about the cognitive processes of Arab translators when translating texts from their heritage language into English. This study aims to track the cognitive processes of students as…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Psycholinguistics, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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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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Xiaoluan Liu; Jixian Nie – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The present study compared bilingualism with bidialectalism in their respective impact on executive control, using a short-term language switching training paradigm for participants who were both bidialectals (Shanghainese-Mandarin Chinese) and bilinguals (Chinese-English). Twenty participants were assigned to a control group where no language…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Bilingualism, Dialects, Code Switching (Language)
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Muna Abd El-Raziq; Natalia Meir; Elinor Saiegh-Haddad – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2024
Background and aims: Although autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has not traditionally been associated with morphosyntactic impairments, some children with ASD manifest significant difficulties in this domain. Sentence Repetition (SRep) tasks are highly reliable tools for detecting morphosyntactic impairment in different languages and across various…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Arabic, Native Language
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Çanakli, Levent Ali; Bastürk, Sükrü – African Educational Research Journal, 2022
As in teaching other languages, the most difficult of the four basic skills in teaching Turkish as a foreign language is writing; it includes very different strategies from sequencing to analysis and synthesis. In addition, foreign language learners tend to transfer the forms and meanings of their own culture and language to the target language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
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Linarsih, Andini; Irwan, Dedi; Putra, Muhammad Iqbal Ripo – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2020
Decades-long researches in a language in contact field have proved that when a learner learns a new language, his/her knowledge regarding their first language might interfere with their learning. If it occurs, the learning process will be more challenging. The data in this research was collected by using document study technique on twenty-five…
Descriptors: Indonesian, Interference (Language), Grammar, Verbs
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Chondrogianni, Vasiliki; Schwartz, Richard G. – Journal of Child Language, 2020
This study examined the linguistic and individual-level factors that render case marking a vulnerable domain in English-dominant Greek heritage children. We also investigated whether heritage language (HL) children can use case-marking cues to interpret (non-)canonical sentences in Greek similarly to their monolingual peers. A group of six- to…
Descriptors: Greek, Native Language, Children, Preadolescents
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Qiaoling He; Isabel Oltra-Massuet – Language Teaching Research, 2024
As one type of the most extensively used sentences, English questions are must-learn grammatical structures for learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). However, it is commonly seen that English learners across proficiency levels produce ungrammatical English questions. To determine the source of learners' erroneous production, we…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Questioning Techniques, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ganayim, Deia; Ganayim, Shireen; Dowker, Ann; Olkun, Sinan – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2021
The study focuses on the effect of the lexical-syntactic structure on the patterns of errors by Arab first graders in tasks involving reading two-digit number and writing two-digit numbers to dictation. Children made few change or omission errors, indicating that they had little problem with the lexical aspects of the counting system. However,…
Descriptors: Arabs, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Syntax
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Wen, Yun; Mirault, Jonathan; Grainger, Jonathan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
In 2 ERP experiments participants read 4-word sequences presented for 200 ms (RPVP paradigm) and were required to decide whether the word sequences were grammatical or not. In Experiment 1, the word sequence consisted of either a grammatically correct sentence (e.g., "she can sing now") or an ungrammatical scrambled sequence (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Processing, Grammar, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Daries, Mikaela A.; Probert, Tracy N. – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2020
Background: Spelling is a vital component of literacy. This is because spelling includes multiple metalinguistic components, such as phoneme-grapheme awareness, orthographic awareness and morphophonemic knowledge. Despite this, there remains, to date, insufficient literature on spelling in the Southern Bantu languages and, more specifically, in…
Descriptors: Spelling, Error Patterns, African Languages, Grade 3
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