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Alghazo, Khitam Mohameed; Alshraideh, Mohamed Khaliefah – International Education Studies, 2020
This study investigated the frequent grammatical errors, found in the writings of Arab students' taking English writing courses in AL-Hussein Bin Talal University Learners' errors were considered positively as the best sources to identify students' limitations in English writing. Therefore the present study intended to investigate the grammatical…
Descriptors: Grammar, Error Patterns, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
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Rabadi, Reem Ibrahim – Arab World English Journal, 2019
This study aims to tackle an answer to the main question; if there is a relationship between the vocabulary size of adult English language learners and their morphological awareness and if their performance would differ in word complexity. The participants were 90 senior BA English Language and Literature students from Jordanian universities. The…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Skills, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Salem, Essa; Jarrah, Marwan; Alrashdan, Imran – SAGE Open, 2020
The present study examines the use of English lexical insertions to create humor by Jordanian university students. The data of the study are collected from spontaneous tape-recorded conversations from 62 participants of both males and females, representing different age groups (from 18-23 years old) and belonging to different specializations…
Descriptors: Humor, Language Usage, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Eisouh, Zuhair S. – Reading Improvement, 2011
This cross-sectional study attempted to determine whether the English negation errors made by the University of Jordan's students were similar to the English negation errors proposed by Klima and Bellugi (1966), or influenced by the Arabic syntactic structures of negative sentences. Data of negative structures were gathered, and error counts were…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Sentences, Syntax, Morphemes