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Almoabdi, Rahaf Bandar – Online Submission, 2023
Because vocabulary knowledge is considered the building block of language learning, any difficulties concerned with vocabulary can harm the overall vocabulary acquisition process. Literature suggests that native Arabic speakers struggle to notice vowels while reading English texts. This can result from the differences between L1 and L2 linguistic…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Vowels, Arabic
Mustapha Chmarkh – Online Submission, 2025
Most second language writing studies have approached the L2 Writing phenomenon through the cognitive theoretical lens that situates writing as a mental activity that resembles psychological and mathematical problem-solving (Cumming, 2016, p. 69). "While research on second language writing has expanded exponentially in recent years, it has for…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Models, Writing Instruction
Kana, Fatih; Kaynak, Ufuk Sezer; Yilmaz, Ceren – Online Submission, 2023
The aim of this study is to reveal the effect of foreign language learning on mother tongue use. Case study design, one of the qualitative research designs, was used in the study. In order to keep the sample large, 70 pre-service teachers were selected using simple random sampling method among the 4th year undergraduate students studying in three…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Second Language Learning, Language Teachers, Native Language
Núñez, Jayrome Lleva – Online Submission, 2021
Learning a new language is one of the privileges that a person can get when moving from one place to another and staying there for a longer time. In this paper, I will discuss my journey that resulted to gradual decline of my L1 (First language), Polillohing Tagalog, which is a variety of the Tagalog language, in the Philippines. The result of…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Autobiographies, Ethnography, Language Skill Attrition
Simone Graczyk – Online Submission, 2024
The world has become seemingly smaller with the advancements of technologies, instead of taking days to receive a written letter, it takes seconds to get an email. While the connection is obvious there still seems to be a barrier between the majority of the world's population: Language. Though it seems irrelevant in people's small communities, the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Communication Problems, Cultural Differences
Ocampo, Darrel – Online Submission, 2023
This study investigated the connection between translanguaging and reading comprehension of Filipino ESL intermediate learners. The respondents were intermediate pupils enrolled in the selected central schools in Bicol, Philippines. The respondents' ages range from 8 to 12 years old, and 124 students (27.55%) were males while 326 students (72.44%)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Code Switching (Language), Translation, Bilingualism
Villarin, Sydney Jay B.; Emperador, Emmylou A. – Online Submission, 2023
This research determined the implication of code switching to the English achievement of the Grade 11 students enrolled in Humanities and Social Sciences strand. Quantitative research design was used to find out the factors, forms, functions, and frequency of the students' code switching, and to correlate the code switching and the students'…
Descriptors: Grade 11, High School Students, Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language)
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
This study investigates interpreting directionality and interpreting competence of undergraduate interpreting students. It tried to answer the following questions: (i) Is there a significant difference between the beginners and advanced students' skills in Liaison interpreting from English to Arabic and Arabic to English, with Arabic as their L1…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2023
In an era where the English language has become dominant in all fields and is the prevailing language worldwide, many Arab parents and intellectuals are wondering about the optimal age to start teaching their children English. Should they speak to their children in English at an early age? Should they enrol their children in a pre-school that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Mothers
?Kumar, Thirumalaikolundu Rose – Online Submission, 2020
I have been interested in the study of language since I was a very young kid, and this caused me to give up everything else just to focus on the study of language. Applied linguistics has specifically been my passion and blessing, and every now and then I prepare a bibliography of research on applied linguistics for people who are interested in…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Research, Language Usage, Interpersonal Communication
Çiftci, Harun; Kömür, Sevki – Online Submission, 2023
This study explores the effect of categorically different pre-reading activities in learners' L1 on reading comprehension and learning of focus-on-vocabulary. The participants were sixty Turkish EFL learners attending a state high school, and the data was gathered from their achievement test scores. We analyzed the data through one-way…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Comparative Analysis, Native Language
Xu, Jinyue – Online Submission, 2022
While anime is well-recognized as a significant motivator of Japanese language learners today, idol fandom, though served as an equally strong source of motivation for some learners, receives far less academic attention. This paper is a preliminary exploration of idol fandom's role in fueling the Japanese language-learning process. Through…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Fiction
Mohammad 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
Yakout, Khelf; Amel, Mostari Hind – Online Submission, 2019
The articulation of the consonant sounds /[voiceless dental fricative]/ and /[voiced dental fricative]/ of the English language is a serious pronunciation problem for the Bechari students in general and EFL students at Tahri Mohamed University (UTMB) in particular. It was noticed that EFL students at UTMB manage to use the /t/ and /d/ sounds…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Pronunciation, College Students
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Pichette, 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
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