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Download full textMohammad H. Adam – Online Submission, 2024
Writing proper English sentences poses a significant challenge for Arabic-speaking postsecondary students studying English as a Foreign Language (EFL) due to substantial differences between Arabic and English syntactic structures. This basic qualitative study explored the perceptions of Arabic-speaking EFL learners at an Arabian university…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Arabic, Native Language
Peer reviewedPichette, François; Lesniewska, Justyna – Online Submission, 2018
Following a surge in the 1970s of research on the role played by the L1 in L2 acquisition, Ellis (1985) compiled ESL studies in which the percentage of L1-based errors was provided. He concluded that, according to available research findings, approximately one third of ESL errors appear to be due to L1 influence. For more than 30 years, that…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Error Patterns
Tejada Reyes, Venecia – Online Submission, 2019
The following work tries to analyze the possible fossilization errors of the students when acquiring a second foreign language. For this purpose, two languages have been chosen: maternal (Spanish) and foreign (English). In the present work we have examined the effects of the Spanish language and the English language when learning another language…
Descriptors: High School Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Tasçi, Samet; Aksu Ataç, Bengü – Online Submission, 2018
Making errors is a natural process of language learning. As in all kind of learning, language learning also involves making errors. Research has shown that even in the first language acquisition process, children make countless errors. Similarly, adult learners of English will inevitably make errors until they have mastered the rules of target…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Analysis (Language)
Flora, Rhegina Mangrobang; De Vera, Presley V. – Online Submission, 2019
This study draws from the tradition of Corpus Linguistics and attempted to determine the extent grammatical errors manifest in the business correspondence corpora composed by Sophomore BS Business Administration students of Pangasinan State University-San Carlos City Campus, located in San Carlos City, Pangasinan. The study was conducted within…
Descriptors: Grammar, Computational Linguistics, Business Communication, Error Analysis (Language)
Siu, Fiona Kwai-peng – Online Submission, 2014
This project was designed to try to investigate the difficulties EFL learners would have in learning to use hedging as a rhetorical device in academic writing. The participants were 136 native Cantonese-speaking EFL students who enrolled in the one-year course "English for Academic Purposes" offered by a language centre at a university…
Descriptors: College Students, Sino Tibetan Languages, Native Language, Second Language Learning
