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Nuha Abdullah Alsmari – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
This study sought to scrutinize the interplay between interlanguage pragmatic learning strategies (IPLS) usage and learner autonomy among male and female English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. It also examines whether gender plays a significant role in the adoption and efficacy of these strategies in the EFL learning context. The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Qari, Israa A. – Arab World English Journal, 2021
The aim of the current study is to test whether explicit instruction of various L2 request forms can be a useful measure in developing Saudi learners' linguistic and pragmatic competences. This study is based on the results obtained from a previous research investigating interlanguage requests. The findings in that study suggested that the second…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Almalki, Ziad; Jones, Christian – Language Learning Journal, 2022
There have been a number of studies on the use of complaints as a speech act. The majority of these studies have included analysis of how different first language speakers make complaints while only a limited number of studies have examined the effects of instruction on the development of complaints as a speech act. Those that have examined this…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ahmad, Iesar – Arab World English Journal, 2020
The research work attempts to investigate that in any geographical contact zone, where the diverse languages and cultures intersect, there would inevitably be linguistic and cultural integration and assimilation. In a similar vein, the worldwide dissemination of the English language has radically shaped the linguistic and textual devices installed…
Descriptors: Native Language, Semitic Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Alhaisoni, Eid; Gaudel, Daya Ram; Al-Zuoud, Khalid M. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
This study aims at providing a comprehensive account of the types of errors produced by Saudi EFL students enrolled in the preparatory year programe in their use of articles, based on the Surface Structure Taxonomies (SST) of errors. The study describes the types, frequency and sources of the definite and indefinite article errors in writing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Error Patterns, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Kabli, Hanan Mohammed – English Language Teaching, 2020
The present study investigates the effect of the first language (L1) on learners by using the negative and the positive evidence in the classrooms while teaching English directional prepositions such as 'to' and 'into'. It is assumed that Arabic has two versions of 'to'. It has the directional interpretation without boundary-crossing which is…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Alsulayyi, Marzouq Nasser – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This study examines the apology strategies used by 30 Saudi EFL teachers in Najran, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), paying special attention to variables such as social distance and power and offence severity. The study also delineates gender differences in the respondents' speech as opposed to studies that only examined speech act output by…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Pragmatics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Alamin, Abdulamir; Ahmed, Sawsan – English Language Teaching, 2012
Analyzing errors committed by second language learners during their first year of study at the University of Taif, can offer insights and knowledge of the learners' difficulties in acquiring technical English communication. With reference to the errors analyzed, the researcher found that the learners' failure to understand basic English grammar…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, College Students, Error Patterns, Error Analysis (Language)
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2010
Unlike English, Standard Arabic has two forms of subject pronouns: Independent such as "?na" ("I"), and a pronominal suffix that is an integral part of the verb such as "katab-tu" ("I wrote"). Independent subject pronouns are commonly used in nominal sentences, not verbal sentences. Use of independent…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Error Analysis (Language), Language Processing, English (Second Language)
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Delamere, Trish – System, 1996
Reports on a study investigating how Americans respond to English as a Second Language (ESL) speech depending on the non-native speaker's accent and whether there were errors in the ESL speech. Findings indicate that Americans exhibit different cultural prejudices towards different foreign speakers depending on the accent of the speakers. (50…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context, Dialects, English (Second Language)