Feedback researchers have given little attention to how administration of language-focused
instruction before writing in a second language combined with subsequent error correction …

Intelligibility is the ultimate goal of human communication. However, measuring it objectively
remained elusive until the 1940s when physicist Harvey Fletcher pioneered a …

This paper introduces the linguistic element called the phrasal verb, which consists of a verb
followed by a particle, such as to “eat out.” The challenges facing L2 students attempting to …

Prepositions are notoriously difficult for English Language Learners to master due to the
sheer number of them in the English language and their polysemous nature. Numerous …

The objectives of this study are to find out the reasons of the problem related to using correct
English prepositions and find some solutions. The participants were ten students at levels …

Purpose: This study examined the differences in spoken Arabic (SpA) and standard Arabic
(StA) in inflectional (gender, number, possessive pronouns, and tense) construction use in …

Purpose: This study examines whether differences in acquisition exist among the inflectional
constructions of number, gender, possessive pronouns, and tense. Moreover, the study …

Abstract Bolinger (1978: 475), one of the foremost authorities on prosody of a generation
ago, said that “Intonation is a half-tamed savage. To understand the tamed or linguistically …

This study is descriptive quantitative research by using a test to collect the data needed. Iraqi
English as a foreign language (EFL) students face difficulties in differentiating between …

This paper investigates the extent to which 80 students of bachelor and diploma's degree
studying in PAAET are aware of the appropriate use of simple and complex prepositions in …