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Alsalami, Ahmed Ibrahim – Arab World English Journal, 2022
This paper is set up to outline the most common challenges in writing short sentences encountered by the first-year students at the English language departments at Al-Baha University campuses. The study is considered necessary because it raises the awareness of both students and instructors to improve their sentence writing. A mixed approach…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Al-Jarf, Reima – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2021
Many EFL teachers spend a lot of time marking students' written assignments and correcting their spelling, grammatical, punctuation, organization and idea generation errors in detail. The more mistakes students make the more meticulously they mark and correct mistakes. Despite meticulous error correction, students continue to make the same…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation, Second Language Learning
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Alharthi, Saleh – SAGE Open, 2021
Writing is an intricate process that encompasses various factors and is a key skill for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students. Thus, writing assignments are vital for any curriculum. One of the essential aspects of effective writing includes good grammar knowledge. Advocates of process writing argue that a free-writing journal is a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Writing Instruction
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Alenazi, Yasir; Chen, Shen; Picard, Michelle; Hunt, Jaime W. – International TESOL Journal, 2021
The English language plays a significant role in Saudi Arabia at the local and international levels. Spelling errors, as one of the challenging elements in writing confronted by Saudi learners of English, have a negative effect on the quality of their written translation products (Ababneh, 2019). Therefore, more analytical studies are needed to…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Translation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Khatter, Sanaa – Arab World English Journal, 2019
This study was conducted to explore and analyze the most common essay writing errors among Saudi female learners at the departments of English, Majmaa'h University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Therefore, the aim has been to identify those difficulties from an error analysis standpoint and identify the sources underlying them. An analysis of a written…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Writing Difficulties, Writing Instruction, Advanced Courses
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
Sixty-eight undergraduate translation students received direct instruction in the features of news headlines and news stories. A week later, they took a test that required them to identify the syntactic and lexical features of a sample of news headlines and news stories, supply deleted word, and substitute punctuation marks, infinitives, and block…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Nuruzzaman, Mohammed; Islam, A. B. M. Shafiqul; Shuchi, Israt Jahan – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
The present study investigates the writing errors of ninety Saudi non-English major undergraduate students of different proficiency levels from three faculties, who studied English as a foundation course at the English Language Center in the College of Languages &Translation at King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia in the academic year 2016-17.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Nonmajors
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Hussain, Syed Sarwar – English Language Teaching, 2019
Of all English Language skills, writing poses the greatest challenge for students due to the demands of style, structure and vocabulary. Even if second language learners (L2 learners) can speak the language well enough for everyday activities--shopping, traveling, and so on, producing an academic write-up that is precise, accurate, objective and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), English for Special Purposes
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Saeed, Murad Abdu; Ghazali, Kamila; Sahuri, Sakina Suffian; Abdulrab, Mohammed – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2018
Aim/Purpose: The current case study aimed to investigate the engagement of nine English as foreign language (EFL) learners in online peer feedback on writing in a Facebook group. Specifically, the study focused on the issues of writing addressed in peer feedback and the learners' perception of peer feedback in the Facebook group. Background: Peer…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Feedback (Response)
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Fattah, Said Fathy El Said Abdul – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The present study was an attempt to determine the effectiveness of using a WhatsApp Messenger as one of mobile learning techniques to develop students' writing skills. Participants were 30 second year college students, English department from a private university in Saudi Arabia. The experimental group (N = 15) used WhatsApp technology to develop…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods
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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)
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Al-Jarf, Reima Sado – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2007
The study investigated EFL students' ability to comprehend and analyze advertisements and identify their stylistic features. Results of a test with sixty six EFL college students showed lexical and structural features that are easy to identify and those that are difficult to identify. Responses also reflected the difficulty level of the lexical…
Descriptors: Advertising, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Students