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Direct linkAl-Gahtani, Saad – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
This study explored the development of L2 learners' interactional competence in Arabic when making requests. Combining a longitudinal and cross-sectional design, it closely examined how learners' language proficiency affected their use of multiple requests in daily-life interactions. Participants included L2 learners (n = 40) and Saudi Arabic…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewedAl-Jarf, Reima Sado – Foreign Language Annals, 2001
Fifty-nine English-as-a-foreign-language students in Saudi Arabia took a cohesion test in which they identified four types of cohesive ties in a reading text, including conjunction, reference, substitution, and ellipsis. Incorrect responses were analyzed. It was found that substitution was the most difficult cohesive tie to process. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
