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Download full textFawzi Eltayeb Yousuf Ahmed; Nawal Mosa Mohammed Abdallah; Sarah Osman Eltom Hamed; Fatima Mohamed Ali Hamed – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
The current study attempts to explore and analyze errors of word choice made in written language by Saudi undergraduates at King Khalid University. It additionally tries to determine the probable sources of errors and provide remedies to them. The study focuses on word choice errors in four areas, viz., literal translation, collocation, subject…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Undergraduate Students
Ibrahim, Mohammed Ali Elsiddig – Arab World English Journal, 2022
This research aims to address the syntactic problems that Saudi students confront when translating. The significance of the study is to detect syntactic issues among Saudi Arabian undergraduate students. The question is addressed in the study: what are the syntactic problems that Saudi students confront when translating? The researcher used a…
Descriptors: Syntax, Translation, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Alsager, Haroon N.; Afzal, Naeem; Aldawood, Arwa A. – Arab World English Journal, 2020
Discourse markers, as words or phrases, play a significant role in promoting coherent segments of discourse. This paper investigates the use of discourse markers (DMs) in newspaper articles. By applying Fraser's framework, this study aims at investigating the functions and positions of DM "but" (English) and its equivalent…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Newspapers, English, Contrastive Linguistics
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
Sixty-eight undergraduate translation students received direct instruction in the features of news headlines and news stories. A week later, they took a test that required them to identify the syntactic and lexical features of a sample of news headlines and news stories, supply deleted word, and substitute punctuation marks, infinitives, and block…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Akbas, Erdem, Ed.; Hatipoglu, Ciler, Ed.; Bayyurt, Yasemin, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This is the book of abstracts for the conference held in 2017 entitled: ''METADISCOURSE ACROSS GENRES: MAPPING INTERACTION IN SPOKEN & WRITTEN DISCOURSES'', also known as MAG2017. The 1st International Conference on Metadiscourse Across Genres took place in METU Northern Cyprus Campus, Cyprus between 30 March-1 April 2017 with the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Written Language, Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics
