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There has always been a tendency by Arab students to learn English as a second language. ... Studying English is a big challenge for most of the Arab students. From my experience, I remember how English courses were like nightmares for the majority of students in high school. ... In this paper, I am going to try to analyze some of the difficulties that Arab students face when learning English as a second language. I will focus in my study on the most common difficulties in grammar and structure that mostly intermediate students have. At the end, I am going to suggest some ways to help Arab ESL students overcome these difficulties.
In this study, I am going to rely on my experience as an Arab student and on my observations being an ESL teacher in my country for one year. ... - What causes difficulties? ... This reason is enough to account for the difficulties that Arab students have when studying ESL.
In my opinion, the differences in word order between the two languages are a very important factor in these difficulties. ... This factor causes the students to be affected by their native language’s word order and therefore transfer this feature to English and commit mistakes. ... there is a big difference between learning English in an Arab country and learning it in an English speaking country by native speaker teachers and practicing it with them. ... - The Most Common Difficulties
The following are the difficulties I found the most common with Arabic speaking students who study English as a second language:
3. ... - Agreement
Agreement is one of the common difficulties with Arab ESL students. ... As a result, agreement errors of this type occur commonly in the English writings of Arab students. ...
From my observation in the Intensive English Program in WVU, I noticed that Spanish-speaking students have the same problem regarding noun-adjective agreement. ... As a result, Arab students often make mistakes such as the following:
* The life is beautiful. ... - Prepositions
Prepositions might be the most common difficulty for ESL students speaking different languages. They even pose difficulties for some university teachers. ...
ESL students are usually unaware of such differences in usage. Arab students in particular have a big problem with such sentences because of their Arabic interference. ... So, when students are not sure which preposition to use in such sentences, they often compare these sentences with their Arabic equivalence giving a literal translation of that Arabic preposition in English. ... Plural
Another difficulty that some Arab students have when studying ESL is to determine whether a word is singular or plural. ... The following example is taken from an Arab student’s writing:
* Statistics are often carried out to determine the increase in population. ...
Word order, as I mentioned before, is a common syntactic difficulty for Arab ESL students.
Approximate Word count = 2312
Approximate Pages = 9.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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