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Download full textAl Karazoun, Ghada Abdelmajid – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study investigated some linguistic errors committed by Jordanian EFL undergraduate students when translating news headlines in Jordanian newspapers from Arabic to English and vice versa. The data of the study was collected through a test composed of (30) English news headlines and (30) Arabic ones covering various areas of news occurring in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Error Analysis (Language), Newspapers
Direct linkHermas, Abdelkader – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2014
This study considers the upper limit of ultimate attainment in the L2 French and L3 English of trilingual learners. The learners are native speakers of Moroccan Arabic who started learning L2 French at eight and L3 English at 16. They are advanced in both languages. Four constructions representing the verb movement and null subject parameter were…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, French, English (Second Language), Semitic Languages
Eisouh, Zuhair S. – Reading Improvement, 2011
This cross-sectional study attempted to determine whether the English negation errors made by the University of Jordan's students were similar to the English negation errors proposed by Klima and Bellugi (1966), or influenced by the Arabic syntactic structures of negative sentences. Data of negative structures were gathered, and error counts were…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Sentences, Syntax, Morphemes
Tawalbeh, Ibrahim Z. – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study was conducted to investigate the influence of Colloquial Jordanian Arabic upon the use of negation and the definite article in English. The sample of the study consisted of 100 male and 100 female Jordanian 10th graders in the academic year 2011-2012. The students were randomly selected from public schools in the region of Karak-Jordan.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
