In this study, the contrastive analysis method is used to investigate the lnterlanguage (IL) developmental sequences of the acquisition of some aspects of English by Arabic-speaking learners. The learners, whose language ...

Attitudes and motivation are considered important factors in Language Acquisition (LA). Learners' attitudes towards speakers ofTarget Language (TL) and the TLitselfhave been the subject of intensive research in applied ...

This paper is a short critique of the "Crescent English Course", Pupils Book 2. It falls into two parts. The first is information about the course; its aims, organization and some of its general characteristics. The second ...

This paper is a validation of two cloze procedures: Open-Ended and Multiple-Choice (henceforth OE and MC respectively). Open-Ended and Multiple-Choice tests on the same text were administered to 60 English majors in their ...

The developmental stages of Qatari Dialect interrogatives and negatives are described in this paper. Four children were included in this study, ranging in age from one year and six months to nine years. According to the ...

Linguistic borrowing is a common, universal and intensively studied phenomenon. It is of interest to investigate this practice and its patterns in Qatari Arabic and to know to what extent the Qataris know the meaning and ...

There are various abstract units of linguistic performance that linguists hypothesized in order to be able to describe the grammars of languages. These are segments, features, morphemes, words or syntactic categories. Yet, ...

According to Graddol (2004) "The world's language system is undergoing rapid change because of demographic trends, new technology, and international communication. These changes will affect both written and spoken ...