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Majed Abdullah Alharbi; Arif Ahmed Mohammed Hassan Al-Ahdal – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
This study has been conducted with eighty undergraduate EFL students at Qassim University, over a period of six weeks, with forty students each in control and experimental groups. The results from the mixed-method analysis show that the experimental group achieved higher scores in listening skills and general comprehension than the control group.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Listening Skills
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Almaiman, Ibrahim Hamad – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
The present study examines the reasons why the Saudi EFL students' spelling performance is notoriously below standard. The Saudi EFL scene has a vast corpus of research examining it from different angles but most of it has focused on the linguistic differences between Arabic and English, whereas this study attempts to evaluate the perceptions and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Spelling
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Bensalem, Elias – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2020
Foreign language (FL) reading is a persistent problem among many learners. This preliminary study investigates FL reading anxiety among students learning English as a foreign language (EFL) at the tertiary level, employing Saito et al.'s (1999) Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale (FLRAS) and a background information questionnaire. A total of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Anxiety
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
Introduction: Many ESL college students have reading comprehension problems in English, such as difficulty understanding ideas explicitly or implicitly stated in a text, making inferences, and inferring meanings of difficult words from context. Aims: The article proposes the integration of inspirational quotes in the teaching of English to EFL…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Alsamadani, Hashem Ahmed – English Language Teaching, 2017
The current research study investigated the effects of talking story books on Saudi young EFL learners' reading comprehension skills. A sample of Saudi-young-EFL learners were randomly selected and divided into two groups: an experimental group (40 students) and a control group (39 students). Students of both groups took a pre reading…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multivariate Analysis