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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
Ismael, Kozhin Omer; Saeed, Kochar Ali; Ibrahim, Airin Shwan; Fatah, Diya Shawkat – Arab World English Journal, 2022
While technology has undoubtedly improved and has become an essential component of modern life, technological advances' consequences have both beneficial and detrimental impacts on students' writing skills in the classroom. Technology has accelerated and simplified work for students, but it has also instilled the belief that there is no need to…
Descriptors: Automation, Error Correction, Writing Skills, College Students
Albaqami, Rashidah – Arab World English Journal, 2022
This study examines the effect of enhanced input of lexical chunks on the performance of Arabic-speaking English learners' writings. Lexical chunks, containing their forms, meanings, and functions, stored and recovered as a single component in brains, may alleviate language processing problems and increase language proficiency. The research…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Abdullah, Ahmad Taufik Hidayah; Azmi, Mohd Nazri Latiff; Hassan, Isyaku; Atek, Engku Suhaimi Engku; Jusoh, Zailani – Arab World English Journal, 2021
The Malaysian government has long recognized the significance of mastering the English language among its citizenry. The government has planned, and subsequently, implemented many policies to ensure Malaysians master the English language. Although civil servants have a strong desire to master the English language to perform their duties more…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Shousha, Amal Ibrahim – Arab World English Journal, 2021
This study aimed to explore the language difficulties faced by English diploma students and provide solutions to overcome them. The data collected in the form of a questionnaire administered to 39 female students were compared in percentages for closed-ended questions and thematically for open-ended ones. Results showed that diploma students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, College Students
Alqahtani, Mufleh Salem M.; Elumalai, Kesavan Vadakalur – Arab World English Journal, 2020
The present scenario fact that the English is a language of modern technological and scientific developments, text is a primary tool for students to gain the knowledge in writing skills. However, most male Saudi students show minimum efficient in L2 writing skill and do not have sufficient competence for writing the authentic English passages. To…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
Mouri, Chahrazede – Arab World English Journal, 2020
Writing is a major language skill that should be the concern of teachers and students. Some first-year English language students seem less interested in writing correct sentences and paragraphs because of the lack of grammar and writing practice in the classroom. They mostly encounter grammar use difficulties, which impede their written…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Writing Skills, Grammar, Foreign Countries
Wahid, Rizwana; Farooq, Oveesa – Arab World English Journal, 2019
This current study aimed to investigate the influence of derivational and inflectional morphological awareness on the writing of undergraduate students studying English as a Foreign Language. They were divided in to two groups and each group comprised 200 advanced EFL learners. Explicit morphological instructions were given to group two in the…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Correlation, Second Language Learning
Alkubaidi, Miriam – Arab World English Journal, 2019
Learning to write in a second language is a great challenge for students; however, certain factors might minimize these challenges. In general, the Saudi students face difficulty to develop the writing competence in a foreign language because they rely on instructors as a sole source of knowledge. Therefore, the study investigated the English…
Descriptors: Action Research, Arabs, Intervention, Memorization
Dahmash, Nada Bin – Arab World English Journal, 2019
Saudi female undergraduates perform various activities in English, their second language (L2), on social media. They engage in different types of writing and reading on social media in everyday life. But little is known about the material resources and concrete activities they drew on as they read and write in English on their preferred social…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Semitic Languages, Females, Undergraduate Students
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