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Ons Abdi – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
The current study aims to verify the claims, in the literature, about the repetitive nature of the Arabic language, its oral origin, as well as its potential transfer into Arabs' EFL discourse. To this end, using a mixed-methods research design, the study investigated the use of lexical repetition (LR) in 40 EFL essays, 40 EFL speeches, 30 Arabic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Arabic, English (Second Language)
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Abdesslem, Habib; Costello, Hassan – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2018
This paper draws an analogy between the histories of traditional grammars and Swales' rhetorical model for Research Papers Introductions. It argues that though core grammar rules for the sentence and core rhetorical patterns for the Introduction have originated from description and have risen to the status of prescription, the study of language…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Research Reports, Grammar, Rhetoric