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Kan, Rachel T. Y.; Murphy, Victoria A. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
Vocabulary plays an important role in reading comprehension in both the L1 and the L2 (Murphy, 2018). In measuring vocabulary knowledge, however, researchers typically focus on mono-lexical units where vocabulary assessments tend not to take into account multi-word expressions which include phrasal verbs, collocations, and idioms. Omitting these…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Awadh, 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