Conducting analysis in language needs has long been seen as essential. Given the importance of Arabic primary communication most Jordanian universities, this study aims at exploring difficulties encountered by non-native speakers learning language. It also seeks to investigating learners’ regarding a foreign (AFL) Universities. The participants include 169 students from four countries (i.e., Ma...

Purpose- The purpose of this study is to find the location errors in students' Arabic speaking skills and then overcome these with error analysis method, research focuses more specifically on showing verbal errors. Design/Methodology/Approach- method used descriptive qualitative, data obtained from interviews, observations, documentation at Pondok Pesantren Nurul Jadid Probolinggo. This a sampl...

Arabic is a language of rich and complex morphology. The nature and peculiarity of Arabic make its morphological and phonological rules confusing for second language learners (SLLs). The conjugation of Arabic verbs is central to the formulation of an Arabic sentence because of its richness of form and meaning. In this paper, we address issues related to the morphological analysis of ill formed ...

Researchers have extensively compared different L2 learning contexts, such as EFL versus study-abroad, for their impacts on oral production; however, scant attention, if any, has been paid to comparing EFL settings in terms of input factors such as textbooks, amount of contacts in L2, and teachers. Accordingly, the effects of these factors on the oral production skills were investigated in this...

Literature is replete with the studies focusing on the role of vocabulary knowledge in second language receptive skills. However, the relationship between the aspects of vocabulary knowledge and productive skills in general, and the speaking performance in particular has remained scanty in the related literature. This paper examined the relationship between knowledge of L2 vocabulary size at di...

Arabic news articles in electronic collections are difficult to work with. Browsing by category is rarely supported. While helpful machine learning methods have been applied successfully to similar situations for English news articles, limited research has been completed to yield suitable solutions for Arabic news. In connection with a QNRF funded project to build digital library community and ...

Previous research in second language (L2) learning has shown that learners benefit greatly from focused training in their L2 (e.g., [5, 9]). The current study investigated whether or not the results of production training might differ according to learning environment, specifically whether or not learners in a non-immersion setting who have fewer opportunities to interact with native speakers m...