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Download full textAlharbi, Noof Saleh – Arab World English Journal, 2021
This current research forms part of a broader investigation into the problems Saudi postgraduate students face in English academic writing. The study used the interpretive paradigm to investigate and interpret the perceptions of Saudi postgraduate students and their supervisors in relation to the difficulties they encountered regarding academic…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Writing Skills, Graduate Students, English (Second Language)
Agili, Emtenan; Prabhashini, C. Bhagya – Arab World English Journal, 2021
Generally, learning outcomes are not always as expected; instead, they show a degree of variation depending on various factors. Likewise, despite the fact of providing writing instruments in Saudi EFL classrooms, the outcomes are not always as expected. The reasons may range from classroom atmosphere to individual cognition and many other related…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing Skills
Khazaal, Edhah Numan – Arab World English Journal, 2019
Writing is one of the essential poles of language learning, and should be one of the senior interest, and concern to teachers, students, and researchers. The purpose of this study is to identify the effect of using the summarizing strategy on postgraduates 'learners. To develop the summary writing skills, two months implementation is applied to…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Improvement, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Alkhateeb, Abdulelah – Arab World English Journal, 2018
This study investigates the transfer relationship between first language (L1) (Arabic) proficiency and second language (L2) (English) performance in writing skills of a Saudi bilingual graduate student. Several studies have discussed the transfer issues in language learning, yet a few of them focus on the transfer relationships between Arabic and…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Language Proficiency, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Almatarneh, Anas Hmoud Mohammad; Ab Rashid, Radzuwan; Yunus, Kamariah – Arab World English Journal, 2018
Writing in English for academic purpose is a difficult task for many Jordanian postgraduate students (JPS) as English is a foreign language to them. This study aimed to explore academic writing problems encountered by JPS at a Malaysian university and to investigate how they address the problems. Employing a case study approach, a total of 182…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Skills, Foreign Students, Writing Difficulties
Khartite, Brahim; Zerhouni, Badia – Arab World English Journal, 2018
This study investigated the extent to which results of rhetorical comparisons of persuasive essays by Moroccan students learning English as a foreign language (EFL) would provide empirical evidence for Kaplan's (1966) contrastive rhetoric hypothesis. This is especially regarding the fact that EFL students-writing problems are a byproduct of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Essays, Persuasive Discourse, English (Second Language)
