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Download full textAwadh, Awadh Nasser Munassar; Khan, Ansarullah Shafiull – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
This study aims at investigating the challenges that Yemeni translation students encounter when translating neologisms from English into Arabic. It also aims at comparing students' translation with outcomes of machine translation (MT). The authors follow the descriptive and comparative methods in conducting this study. To achieve the objective of…
Descriptors: Barriers, Translation, English (Second Language), Semitic Languages
Direct linkAlotumi, Mohialdeen – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
This article is an action research of quasi-experimental nature. It aims at investigating the effect of CALL-based instruction on Yemeni students' score attainment on the TOEFL iBT. The sample of study consisted of 30 adult students randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Data was collected within an 8-week period via a…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Al-Murtadha, Mutahar; Feryok, Anne – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
Unwillingness to communicate (UWTC) was initially conceptualized as a trait-like predisposition in L1 studies, but later research shifted the focus to willingness to communicate (WTC). In second language acquisition, WTC was introduced as a situational construct where time is highlighted by the immediate context of decision to communicate.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Zuheer, Khaled Mohsen Mohamed – Online Submission, 2013
The main aim of the present study was to develop EFL teachers' performance at Sana'a secondary schools in the light of their professional and specialist needs. Based on literature review, related studies and a panel of jury members' points of view and English teachers' interview, a list of four needs was proposed and used as the most necessary…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Achievement Tests, Specialists, Secondary School Teachers
Kuntz, Patricia S. – 1999
A study investigated beliefs about language learning held by American adult students of Arabic studying in two programs, one in Morocco and one in Yemen, and compared them with beliefs held by the teachers. Subjects were 44 students and 10 teachers from the Morocco program and 27 students and 7 teachers from the Yemen program. Subjects were…
Descriptors: Arabic, Beliefs, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context
Kuntz, Patricia S. – 1997
A study investigated beliefs about language learning held by two groups of students studying Arabic: 41 students in conventional classroom language instruction at the University of Wisconsin in 1992 and 1993, and 27 in an immersion program at the Yemen Language Center (Yemen). The survey instrument consisted of 47 statements in a Likert-type scale…
Descriptors: Arabic, Beliefs, College Students, Comparative Analysis
