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Download full textAlhaysony, Maha; Alhaisoni, Eid – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
This paper investigates grammatical difficulty from the perspective of Saudi university students, of EFL as well as from the perspective of university teachers. It aims to find out which English grammar features are more difficult/less difficult than others. Furthermore, it attempts to determine the reasons and causes that account for such grammar…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Granhemat, Mehdi; Abdullah, Ain Nadzimah – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
This study examined the relationships between gender, ethnicity, ethnic identity, and language choices of Malaysian multilingual youths in the family domain of language use. Five hundred undergraduate students who belonged to different Malaysian ethnic groups were selected as participants of the study. The participant aged between 17 to 25 years…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Ethnicity, Language Usage
Fatima, Irum; Pathan, Zahid Hussain – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The primary purpose of this research is to investigate the vocabulary learning strategies employed by the undergraduate students of Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University (SBKWU) and University of Balochistan (UOB), Quetta, Pakistan. A quantitative design was employed in this study to answer the two research questions of the present study. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies, Vocabulary Development, Comparative Analysis
Bayazidi, Aso; Saeb, Fateme – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
This study examined the equivalence and reliability of the two versions of the Vocabulary Levels Test in an Iranian context. This study was motivated by the fact that the Vocabulary Levels test is increasingly being used in Iran for both research and pedagogical purposes without having been checked for validity and reliability in this context. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary, English (Second Language), College Second Language Programs
Alotaibi, Maye A.; Alotaibi, Abdullah M. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
This study aims to test the extent to which 80 Kuwaiti EFL learners are aware of prenominal adjective ordering system in English, particularly how it affects Kuwaiti EFL learners' grasp on English grammar. In addition, it checks whether the English proficiency level of the participants plays a role in their answers on the test. Therefore, a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages)
Al Khotaba, Eissa; Al Magarbeh, Bassam – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The goal of this study is to investigate the influence of words categories on translating postgraduate students abstracts doing their M.A in Evaluation and Measurement at Mutah university in Jordan for the academic year 2014/2015. This qualitative and quantitative study includes 15 postgraduate students' abstracts in the field of Evaluation…
Descriptors: Translation, Graduate Students, Universities, Documentation
Alnamer, Sulafah Abdul Salam – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
This study measures the extent to which Arabic-speaking EFL learners are aware of polysemy in English. It also investigates whether the English proficiency level of Arabic-speaking EFL learners plays a role in their ability to distinguish between the various meanings of English polysemous words, and whether they face problems when they encounter…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Semitic Languages
Alzubi, Ali Abbas Falah; Singh, Manjet Kaur Mehar; Pandian, Ambigapathy – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
This paper explores the current practices of learner autonomy among Saudi undergraduates at Preparatory Year, Najran University. The Short List questionnaire developed by Dixon (2011) was administered to measure the use of autonomous learning in English as a foreign language (EFL) context. Quantitative data were gathered from 208 male students in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires
Durrani, Hina – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
CLT and GTM have been popular and much practiced methodologies in classrooms worldwide in teaching English language. The purpose of the current research is to examine students' attitude towards Grammar Translation Method and CLT in Pakistan at graduate level. The data for the current study was collected through questionnaire from undergraduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods, College Students
Sohrabi, Sarah; Rahimi, Ramin; Arjmandi, Masoume – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This study aims at investigating the practicality of the current curriculum for translation studies at national level (Iranian curriculum). It is going to have a comprehensive idea of translation students and teachers (university lecturers) over the current translation syllabus at BA level in Iran. A researcher-made CEQ questionnaire (Curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Curriculum, Translation, Course Descriptions
Gaibani, Ahmed; Elmenfi, Fadil – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The study is to show how age factor can influence public speaking anxiety among English Language Learners at Omar Al-Mukhtar University. To indicate the influence of age factor a questionnaire was distributed to the participants of the study. As well as correlation was also undertaken to the data collected to investigate the influence of age…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Public Speaking, Anxiety, Affective Behavior
Bahri, Hossein; Mahadi, Tengku Sepora Tengku – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The present paper examines the use of Google Translate as a supplementary tool for helping international students at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) to learn and develop their knowledge and skills in learning Bahasa Malaysia (Malay Language). The participants of the study were 16 international students at the School of Languages, Literacies, and…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Translation, Foreign Students, Indonesian
Sanadgol, Fatemeh; Abdolmanafi-Rokni, Seyed Jalal – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Research in the series of second language learning certify that both cognitive and affective factors within a language learner affect the level of success that will be achieved in learning a second language. This study was an attempt to investigate the relationship among three factors of anxiety, motivation, and autonomy. To this purpose, 207…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Student Motivation, Personal Autonomy, Statistical Analysis
Ravesh, Mahnaz Mahmoudi; Tabrizi, Hossein Heidari – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The present study sought to investigate whether Iranian translation students were successful in comprehending interlanguage pragmatic (ILP) features. Moreover, it tried to figure out whether teaching interlanguage pragmatics proved helpful for the improvement of interpretation ability of Iranian translation students. To this end, 30 students of…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Pragmatics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Nikou, Farahnaz Rimani; Bonyadi, Alireza; Amirikar, Negin – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The current study intended to find out the relationship between critical thinking skills and the quality of Iranian TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) students' writing. One-hundred forty students who were homogeneous in their language proficiency were selected non-randomly. The researcher asked students to take part in a proficiency…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Writing (Composition), Thinking Skills
