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Purnama, Syahfitri; Pawiro, Muhammad Ali; Azis – International Journal of Language Education, 2023
Speaker's good pronunciation makes his/her listener comfortable, and confident to participate in the conversation and his/her mispronunciations bring implications to the listener's awareness and involvement with the message spoken. The research was aimed at detecting the mispronunciations produced by 70 nonnative (L2) post-graduate students who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Graduate Students
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Lukas Matati Josua – Journal of English Teaching, 2024
Studying towards a postgraduate qualification is viewed as a booster that may usher employees towards management positions. We have found common mistakes in research proposals for master's degree students in a department at the University of Namibia. Our presentation shows the shortcomings in the research proposals of postgraduate students and…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Universities, Plagiarism
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Mubarak, Faisal; Deviana, Ade Destri; Hasanah, Mamluatul; Qomariyah, Lailatul; Nasarudine; Hafiz, Abdul; Marsiah; Yahya, M. – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
Students' Arabic thesis writing comprises several grammatical errors of different types. This study aimed to find out: (1) errors in writing Arabic phrases on students of the Arabic Language Education Master's Program at universities of Indonesia, and (2) factors that caused these writing errors. This research sued a qualitative research design,…
Descriptors: Arabic, Phrase Structure, Grammar, Foreign Countries
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Loboda, Krzysztof; Mastela, Olga – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
Mass adoption of neural machine translation (NMT) tools in the translation workflow has exerted a significant impact on the language services industry over the last decade. There are claims that with the advent of NMT, automated translation has reached human parity for translating news (see, e.g. Popel et al. 2020). Moreover, some machine…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computational Linguistics, Polish, Folk Culture
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Fatahipour, Majid; Nemati, Majid – Asian Journal of University Education, 2016
Amongst extensive research on thesis writing quality, few provide a detailed account of common writing challenges/errors as perceived by examiners vs. students. In this study, eight recent English theses marked-up by examiners and defended in Iranian universities were selected randomly among those thesis made available (n=45). Based on an…
Descriptors: Masters Theses, Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes
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Jamil, Sajid; Majoka, Muhammad Iqbal; Kamran, Umaima – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2016
The present study was conducted to identify and classify the most common errors committed by students at postgraduate level in English writing skill. English is considered as second language for Pakistani students. It is used as medium of instruction in many universities in Pakistan. The main focus of the study was to investigate L2 learners'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Keshavarz, Mohammad Hossein – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2017
While there is a plethora of research on pronunciation problems of EFL learners with different L1 backgrounds, published empirical studies on syllabification errors of Iraqi Kurdish EFL learners are scarce. Therefore, to contribute to this line of research, the present study set out to investigate difficulties of this group of learners in the…
Descriptors: Phonemes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Davidson, Lisa; Wilson, Colin – Second Language Research, 2016
Recent research has shown that speakers are sensitive to non-contrastive phonetic detail present in nonnative speech (e.g. Escudero et al. 2012; Wilson et al. 2014). Difficulties in interpreting and implementing unfamiliar phonetic variation can lead nonnative speakers to modify second language forms by vowel epenthesis and other changes. These…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Acoustics, Phonetics, Speech
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Yaseen, Ahmed Abdoualzhraa; Ismail, Kemboja; Yasin, Mohamad Subakir Mohd – Arab World English Journal, 2018
This study investigates the syntactic errors in speaking among an Arab L2 post-graduate student in an academic speaking context. Specifically, the objectives are to describe the syntax error patterns committed by the student while engaging in speaking and to explore the contributing factors that may affect the errors. To address these objectives,…
Descriptors: Syntax, Error Analysis (Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Montrul, Silvina; de la Fuente, Israel; Davidson, Justin; Foote, Rebecca – Second Language Research, 2013
This study examined whether type of early language experience provides advantages to heritage speakers over second language (L2) learners with morphology, and investigated knowledge of gender agreement and its interaction with diminutive formation. Diminutives are a hallmark of Child Directed Speech in early language development and a highly…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Learning Experience, Nouns, Spanish
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Tonkyn, Alan Paul – Language Learning & Language Teaching (MS), 2012
This paper reports a case study of the nature and extent of progress in speaking skills made by a group of upper intermediate instructed learners, and also assessors' perceptions of that progress. Initial and final interview data were analysed using several measures of Grammatical and Lexical Complexity, Language Accuracy and Fluency. These…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Chou, Li-hua; Hayes, Denis Michael – English Language Teaching, 2009
This study systematically investigates the English writing research in Taiwan, over the span of time from 1989 to 2008, a 19-year time period. Data collection consisted of five major sources. Guided by Juzwik et al's (2006) study, the data were analyzed based on the general problems under investigated, the age groups being researched, the…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Elementary School Students, High School Students, College Students
Tomiyama, Machiko – 1979
This study investigated the relationship between grammatical errors and communication breakdown by examining native speakers' ability to correct grammatical errors. The assumption was that communication breakdown exists to a certain degree if a native speaker cannot correct the error or if the correction distorts the information intended to be…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Communication Problems, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Bermudez, Andrea B.; Padron, Yolanda N. – 1987
A study examined prevailing views on the role of errors and on error correction held by teachers and other school-related personnel in contact with second language learners. An error perception inventory was administered to a group of school personnel (69 teachers and 18 other personnel) completing a graduate-level training program. Of these, 35…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Adunyarittigun, Dumrong – 1996
This paper examines variables such as linguistic ability in the target language, schemata, and psychological factors affecting the English language reading success or failure of a 31-year-old Thai graduate student in the information system program at a U.S. university. The subject's self-assessment of reading, speaking, and listening in Thai was…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Foreign Countries