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Alghazo, Khitam Mohameed; Alshraideh, Mohamed Khaliefah – International Education Studies, 2020
This study investigated the frequent grammatical errors, found in the writings of Arab students' taking English writing courses in AL-Hussein Bin Talal University Learners' errors were considered positively as the best sources to identify students' limitations in English writing. Therefore the present study intended to investigate the grammatical…
Descriptors: Grammar, Error Patterns, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
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Khaksefidi, Saman – International Education Studies, 2017
This study investigates the psychological effect of a wrong question with wrong items on answering to the next question in a test of structure. Forty students selected through stratified random sampling are given 15 questions of a standardized test namely a TOEFL structure test in which questions number 7 and number 11 are wrong and their answers…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Statistical Analysis
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Mehrabi, Marzieh; Rahmatian, Rouhollah; Safa, Parivash; Armiun, Novid – International Education Studies, 2014
This paper analyzes the spoken corpus of thirty Iranian learners of French at four levels (A1, A2, B1 and B2). The data were collected in a pseudo-longitudinal manner in semi-directed interviews with half closed and open questions to analyze the learners' syntactic errors (omission, addition, substitution and displacement). The most frequent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Second Language Learning, Oral Language
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Han, Turgay; Tanriöver, Ahmet Serkan; Sahan, Özgür – International Education Studies, 2016
Native English Speaking Teachers (NESTs) have been employed in various English language teaching (ELT) positions and departments at private and state universities in Turkey, particularly over the last three decades. However, undergraduate EFL students' attitudes toward NESTs and Non-Native English Speaking Teachers (Non-NESTs) remain seriously…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Anxiety
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Yunis, Melor Md; Haris, Siti Nor Fatimah – International Education Studies, 2014
This paper investigates the use of discourse markers among Form Four second language learner (SLL) students in essay writing. The objectives of this study are to discover how Form Four SLL students use discourse markers in their essay writing and to identify the teachers' perception about the usage of discourse markers among students. 30…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Essays, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Moqimipour, Kourosh; Shahrokhi, Mohsen – International Education Studies, 2015
The present study aimed at analyzing writing errors caused by the interference of the Persian language, regarded as the first language (L1), in three writing genres, namely narration, description, and comparison/contrast by Iranian EFL students. 65 English paragraphs written by the participants, who were at the intermediate level based on their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Error Patterns, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning