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Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
English and Arabic have different types of collocations, i.e., groups of words that go together. This study aims to explore the difficulties that Saudi undergraduate student-translators have in translating English word + preposition collocations such as verb + preposition, noun + preposition, and adjective + preposition collocations to Arabic. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Translation, English (Second Language)
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David Allen – Language Teaching Research, 2025
When inferring the meaning of unknown words in a second language, learners make use of a variety of cues including the cross-linguistic formal similarities of loanwords and cognates. However, because learners do not always recognize these cross-linguistic relationships, cognate strategy training has been recommended. The present study investigated…
Descriptors: Accuracy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Dandee, Warinthon; Pornwiriyakit, Pornchai – Journal of Educational Issues, 2022
This study aims to investigate the improvement of EFL students' English pronunciation skills by using English phonetic alphabet drills. The samples of this study were 35 first-year students of English for International Communication major, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-ok. They all registered…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Pronunciation Instruction
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Elumalai, Kesavan Vadakalur; Abdullah, Mohammad Sufian; Sankar, Jayendira P.; Kalaichelvi, R. – Arab World English Journal, 2021
The English language pronunciation is a sub-skill of speaking modules during the learning process of a second language. Accurate pronunciation is not followed enough by Bangladesh students in speaking English It was found that the participants face barriers while pronouncing English. However, it is ignored and even provided the least attention by…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Pronunciation, Foreign Students
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Nuria Haristiani; Devy Christinawati – International Journal of Language Education, 2024
While acquiring a second language, learners may encounter challenges and difficulties in effectively carrying out verbal communication in the second language. Mastering the apology speech act is a challenge for L2 learners. The objective of this study is to identify the apology strategies utilized by individuals learning the Japanese language, as…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Pragmatics, Error Analysis (Language), Second Language Learning
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Khaled el Houche – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2023
This study sought to solve the puzzle of persistent occurrence of mechanical errors in pre-service primary school teachers' writings. Data consisted of short compositions from four intact classes (n=75) of second-year university students at the Higher Institute of Arts and Crafts of Tataouine (ISAMT), Tunisia. Results of data analysis revealed a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Elementary School Teachers
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Mária Spišiaková; Nina Mocková; Natalia Shumeiko – Advanced Education, 2023
Different linguistic classifications of Spanish and Slovak make the differences between these two languages. The genetic criterion classifies languages, clustering them into language families, the largest among which is the Indoeuropean one. The typological criterion divides languages according to their grammatical structures. Meanwhile, Slovak is…
Descriptors: Slavic Languages, Spanish, Interference (Language), Linguistic Theory
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Villata, Sandra; Franck, Julie – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Studies on agreement production consistently report an increase in production errors in the presence of an attractor mismatching the agreement feature of the target. In contrast, results from comprehension studies are mixed, ranging from lack of effect to facilitation. We report 2 forced-choice experiments and 2 self-paced reading experiments on…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Interference (Language), Language Processing, Grammar
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Mehat, Siti Zawani; Ismail, Lilliati – Asian Journal of University Education, 2021
Errors, either in writing or speaking, are common in second language production. Researchers have long been investigating English as Second Language (ESL) learners' errors because they may produce different kinds of errors than native speakers. The purpose of this study was to identify errors made by adult ESL learners and to examine the L1…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
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Hani Hamad M. Albelihi; Arif Al-Ahdal – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
The current study explores error fossilization in the academic writing of Saudi English as a Foreign Language (EFL) undergraduate learners. A manual textual analysis approach, employing corpus content analysis on writing across diverse genres including argumentative, expository, narrative, and descriptive essays was conducted to discover the…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Patterns
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Yossatorn, Yossiri; Binali, Theerapong; Chokthawikit, Sirisira; Weng, Cathy – SAGE Open, 2022
The English past counterfactuality is difficult for non-native learners to learn and understand due to cross-language discrepancies. Oftentimes, individuals unavoidably develop the interlanguage and this language system becomes fossilized regardless of the amount of exposed time and input. The purpose of the study was twofold: (a) to examine 126…
Descriptors: Grammar, Translation, Teaching Methods, Interlanguage
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Nurhayati, Dwi Astuti; Djatmika – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2020
The article discusses the quality of language exploitation performed by the students of the English Language Study Program in the City of Tulungagung in writing English text stories. The data was collected for 4 months, starting May up to August 2020 in IAIN Tulungagung campus in the sense of data collection, through the observation. This study…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Strategies, Literary Genres, English (Second Language)
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Lin, Yu-Cheng; Lin, Pei-Ying; Yeh, Li-Hao – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Previous studies on spoken word production have shown that native English speakers used phoneme-sized units (e.g., a word-initial phoneme, C) to produce English words, and native Mandarin Chinese speakers employed syllable-sized units (e.g., a word-initial consonant and vowel, CV) as phonological encoding units in Chinese. With spoken word…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Word Recognition, Mandarin Chinese, English
Mohammadi, Ehsan; Mohammadi, Sina – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2020
This study aimed at the analysis of syntactic errors in translation done by both bilingual and monolingual EFL learners. Research on the subject of the study implied that there might be differences between monolinguals and bilingual learners of foreign languages. The gaps of studies on differences between monolinguals and bilingual's translations…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Monolingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Li, Yanru – English Language Teaching, 2022
This study investigated the erroneous use of the high-frequency verb TAKE by the Chinese college learners of English as a foreign language (EFL), aiming to identify the similarities and differences between Chinese EFL learners, aimed at finding out more effective ways for the teaching and researching of the high-frequency verbs. Corpus-based…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Verbs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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