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Al-Basri, Majid Abdulatif – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
The paper is an in-depth study of how the principles and rules of the metrical theory of phonology have found their way to apply to Iraqi Arabic words and expressions. Iraqi lexical items have amassed evidence illustrating that both foot and stress are the hub of phonological designs of parametric prominence entailed in mapping and building up…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Variation, Morphology (Languages), Phonology
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Will Baker; Sonia Morán Panero; José Aldemar Álvarez Valencia; Sami Alhasnawi; Yusop Boonsuk; Phuong Le Hoang Ngo; Maritza M. Martínez-Sánchez; Norbella Miranda; Gloria J. Ronzón-Montiel – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
English is core to HE (higher education) globally, with both HE and English seen as pathways to success for students. Yet, access to English is unequal and colonial ideologies associate English with Anglophone settings. Much of the research on English in HE has focused on elite institutions and students, while the majority of the world's HE…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Variation
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Ibrahim Talaat Ibrahim; Tizreena Ismail; Ahood Al Rawashdeh; Najeh Rajeh Alsalhi; Sami Sulieman Al-Qatawneh; Khaled Aljarrah; Abdellateef Alqawasmi; Mariza Tulio – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
Subtitling is one of the most commonly employed types of audiovisual translation, for being cheaper and easier to be compared with other types, and also being adopted as the process of rendering aural, visual, and written modes into one single mode of communication, The current study is a translation analysis of the first fifty minutes of the…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Arabic, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Rezqallah, May Stephan – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
With the advent of communication facilities, most of our students are enthusiastic to get highly acquainted with rhythmical languages; one of these languages is English. Students prefer to speak the language more than to write a composition, or get in touch with its grammar. In other words, a question is raised "how can we learn English…
Descriptors: Correlation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Anber, Sameerah Jabbar; Swear, Muna Abdual Hussein – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The study investigated the sociocultural differences in translating Euphemistic expressions from English into Arabic. Particularly, the study took the novel "A Grain of Wheat" to show the differences of these expressions usage by two translators from different cultures. The study adapts a qualitative approach applied in Leppihalme's…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Translation, English, Semitic Languages
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Al Hamdany, Hayder; Picard, Michelle – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2015
This paper explores the perceptions of Iraqi students of three different English Programs (a general English for academic purposes program, a pre-enrolment English program and the English component of a disciplinary bridging program) at an Australian University as reflected in their language learning narratives. It focuses specifically on the…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction