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Alqahtani, Fatmah A. – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
This study is intended to help English foreign language learners avoid a type of syntactic ambiguity in sentences resulting from prepositional phrases (PPs). The students are guided to make use of the features of both adverbials and adjectivals in resolving this type of ambiguity. The movability of adverbials and the use of relative clauses…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Ambiguity (Semantics), Inferences
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Farooq, Oveesa – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2019
The fact that English is an internationally intelligible language, and therefore its use in the educational institutions of most non-English speaking countries is stressed upon. This impresses upon us the need of ELT (English Language Teaching) as a second language in such countries. Same is the case with Gulf countries, especially Saudi-Arabia.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Semitic Languages, Syntax
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2023
Son and daughter metaphorical expressions are common in general as well as technical languages. This study explores the similarities and differences between English and Arabic ibn (son) and bint (daughter) expressions, and the difficulties that student-translators have with them. A corpus of English and Arabic general ibn (son) and bint (daughter)…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Usage, Daughters, Sons
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Al-Thubaiti, Kholoud A. – Second Language Research, 2019
This study examines whether the second language acquisition (L2A) of syntactic properties at the interfaces is problematic for L2 learners. English verb phrase ellipsis (VPE) was tested as an interface property which involves feature interpretability. Two subtle contrasts of VPE at different grammar-internal interfaces were examined: (a) copula…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Semantics, Syntax
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
Introduction: Many ESL college students have reading comprehension problems in English, such as difficulty understanding ideas explicitly or implicitly stated in a text, making inferences, and inferring meanings of difficult words from context. Aims: The article proposes the integration of inspirational quotes in the teaching of English to EFL…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Wahid, Rizwana; Farooq, Oveesa – Arab World English Journal, 2019
This current study aimed to investigate the influence of derivational and inflectional morphological awareness on the writing of undergraduate students studying English as a Foreign Language. They were divided in to two groups and each group comprised 200 advanced EFL learners. Explicit morphological instructions were given to group two in the…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Correlation, Second Language Learning
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Amin, Eman Abdel-Reheem – Arab World English Journal, 2019
The present study aimed at developing English as a foreign language (EFL) college students' translation performance through raising their awareness of related syntactic and semantic errors. During the pilot study, the researcher analyzed fifty translated passages from students' assignments. The aim of this systematic analysis was necessary to…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Alanazi, Mona Saleh – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2017
The last four decades have observed a renewed research interest in the area of error analysis. It has been the focus of attention, and subject of debate, among scholars particularly those of second-language acquisition. Scholars in this area of study hold the unanimous view that errors are an integral and unavoidable feature of second-language…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Writing Achievement, Error Analysis (Language), English (Second Language)
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2011
The article shows how mind-mapping software can be used to help premedical students learn, apply and relate terminology sharing Greek and Latin roots. Mind-mapping software use a center, branches, and sub-branches to show connections between Greek and Latin roots generated on the mind map. Instruction with the mind-mapping software goes through…
Descriptors: Greek, Latin, Morphemes, Phonology
Sado Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2007
An error corpus of deviant SVO structure was collected from the translation projects of students majoring in translation. Syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discoursal criteria were used to judge the deviations. Percentages of interlingual and intralingual errors, the syntactic contexts in which subjects were misplaced, the strategies used to…
Descriptors: Word Order, Error Patterns, Translation, Arabic