scholarly journals Iraqi EFL Learners' Recognition and Production of English Derivational Suffixes

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (132) ◽  
pp. 67-76
Author(s):  
Mubdir Shihab Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Choice ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
Multiple Choice Question ◽  
Production Level ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Ibn Rushd ◽  
Recognition Level ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Different Parts

This study aims at testing the Iraqi EFL learners' recognition and production of the derivational suffixes in English and namely, noun, verb, adjective, and adverb. It is hypothesized that the Iraqi EFL learners find difficulty in forming new correct parts of speech from the roots due to their unsureness of the suitable derivational suffixes. Also, they tend to use derivational suffixes with different parts of speech depending on different factors like guessing and generalization. The sample of this study is fourth-year Iraqi students of the Department of English/ College of Education Ibn Rushd/ Universitry of Baghdad of the academic year (2014-2015). To achieve the aim of this study a test, which comprises two questions, has been constructed. A multiple-choice question at the recognition level and a completion question at the production level are constructed. The findings of the test show that Iraqi EFL university learners face difficulty in recognizing and producing the derivational suffixes of different parts of speech. In the light of the results, some conclusions have been drawn and a number of recommendations and suggestions have been presented.

scholarly journals Investigating Iraqi EFL Learners' Ability to Recognize and Produce English Multi –Word Verbs

2018 ◽  
Vol 215 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-32
Author(s):  
Prof. Nidham Sheet Hameed (PH.D) ◽  
Lecturer Ala'a Hussein Jassim (MA)
Keyword(s):  
Poor Performance ◽  
Production Level ◽  
Pilot Test ◽  
Fourth Stage ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Level Of Difficulty ◽  
Recognition Level ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Year 2013

The study deals with English multi-word verbs. It aims at investigating the Iraqi EFL learner's ability to recognize and produce phrasal and prepositional verbs and so find out what types of multi-word verbs they find most difficult. To achieve this aim, a test has been conducted on fifty students from the fourth stage at the College of Arts- University of Baghdad for the academic year 2013/2014, preceded by a pilot test two weeks before. It has been found that the level of difficulty of the test ranges between (0.30) and (0.80). The results showed that EFL learners demonstrated poor performance in using the suitable preposition or particle when they were asked to recognize or produce multi-word verbs. The students performed better on the whole recognition level (51.4%) than the production level (22.1%).

scholarly journals Keeping Conversation Rolling by Iraqi EFL University Learners

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Muayad Mingher Al-Shemmery ◽  
Hisham Adnan AlMumar ◽  
Dheyaa Al-Fatlawi
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Diagnostic Test ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
Production Level ◽  
Test Administration ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Optimal Form ◽  
The Face

The present study sheds some light on the conversation as an optimal form of communication. Also, it tries to illustrate Iraqi EFL learners’ aptitude for producing conversation and specifying the errors types committed by them in its progression. To accomplish these purposes, it is hypothesized that the learners may face formidable problems in sharing their experiences with each other and are unable to keep a conversation going. In the face of such problems, a sample of (50) learners is selected to a diagnostic test administration. The subjects are at the Fourth year, Department of English, College of Education for Humanities, University of Babylon. Data analysis has proved that the leaners encounter more difficulty on the production level than the recognition one. This manifestation is manifested itself in the number of the learners’ correct responses as compared with their incorrect ones on both levels.

scholarly journals L’ANALYSE DE LA QUALITÉ DU TEST FORMATIF PROGRAMMÉ FAITE PAR LES PROFESSEURS AU LYCÉE POUR LA Xeme CLASSE À SEMARANG

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwi Milla Mufida ◽  
Dwi Astuti ◽  
Neli Purwani
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Standardized Tests ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Multiple Choice ◽  
Multiple Choice Question ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
General Test ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Academic Year

L'évaluation est le processus de collecter des données pour savoir s’il y a  les objectifs éducatifs qui n'ont pas été atteints. Le test est un instrument d'évaluation dans l'éducation. En termes d’arrangement, le test est divisé en deux, ce sont des tests standardisés et des tests non standardisés. Les professeurs de français doivent savoir rédiger des tests en bonne qualité. Un test en bonne qualité est un test ayant une bonne structure à travers des instructions du test court et claire. Cette recherche a le but de décrire : 1) la qualité du test formatif programmé fait par les professeurs de français au lycée pour la classe X à Semarang de l’année academique 2016/2017, 2)  le type de la question à choix multiple et celui de la question réponse ouverte courte. Les données de cette recherche sont les questions les tests formatifs programmés faits par les professeurs de français aux lycées pour la classe X à Semarang. C’est une recherche descriptive qualitative. La méthode de recueil des données dans cette recherche est celle de documentation. Les questions à choix multiples sont analysées basées sur la matière, la construction, et la langue, afin que les questions des réponses ouvertes courtes sont analysées basées sur les règles d’arrangement du test en générales. Les résultats de cette recherche montrent que les qualités des questions des tests formatifs programmés faits par les professeurs au type de la question à choix multiple et la question de réponse ouverte courte aux lycées pour la classe X  à Semarang de l’année academique 2016/2017 sont dans le critère bien. Evaluation is the process of collecting data to know if there are educational goals that have not been achieved. The test is an assessment tool in education. In terms of arrangement, the test is divided into two, these are standardized tests and non-standardized tests. French teachers must know how to write tests in good quality. A test in good quality is a test with a good structure through short and clear test instructions. This research aims to describe: 1) the quality of the programmed formative test done by the French teachers in high school for the X class in Semarang of the academic year 2016/2017, 2) the type of the multiple choice question and that of the short open answer question. The data of this research are the questions programmed formative tests made by the teachers of French in high schools for the class X in Semarang. It is a qualitative descriptive search. The method of collecting data in this research is that of documentation. Multiple choice questions are analyzed based on subject matter, construction, and language, so that short open-ended questions are analyzed based on the general test arrangement rules. The results of this research show that the qualities of the questions of the programmed formative tests done by the teachers to the type of the multiple choice question and the question of short open answer to the high schools for the class X in Semarang of the academic year 2016/2017 are in the criterion well.

scholarly journals The Effect of Gender on the Bilingual and Bicultural Identity of the Iraqi EFL Learners' Recognition and Production of Request

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. p32
Author(s):  
Mohammed Jasim Betti ◽  
Zainab Kadhim Hashim
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
Bicultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Culture Influence ◽  
Linguistic Patterns ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Better Than

This study examines the effect of gender on students' bilingual and bicultural identity in their recognition and production of request is studied. This means that it investigates to what extent the learners’ mother tongue and culture influence their recognition and production of request in the EFL and the effect of gender on such an identity. The study aims at exploring and identifying the linguistic patterns of request in English used by Iraqi EFL learners, those patterns of request transferred from Iraqi EFL learners’ mother tongue, and the Iraqi EFL learners’ cultural patterns and cultural realization of request transferred from Arabic culture into the EFL. Some hypotheses of the study state that there is a bilingual and cultural identity in using request by Iraqi EFL learners, females are better than males in request perception and production and they are worse in Arabic monolingualism and monoculturalism, students are better in English monolingualism and monoculturalism than in the other request features, students’ English monolingual and monocultural identity is more apparent in request perception than in production. To validate or refute its hypotheses, a test comprising recognition and production has been constructed and applied to fifty Iraqi EFL learners at fourth year, Department of English, College of Education for Humanities, University of Thi-Qar at the academic year (2020-2021). After data analysis, some conclusions are arrived at. The study concludes that Iraqi EFL learners are pragmatically incompetent and they have a bilingual and bicultural identity because of their mother tongue and culture interference.

scholarly journals Investigating Iraqi EFL College Learners’ Perception and Use of Causative Verbs

لارك ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (20) ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Qassim Hammadi Dawood Al-Ebadi ◽  
Noor Hameed Majeed Al-Abidi
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
Face Validity ◽  
Production Level ◽  
Second Person ◽  
The Third ◽  
College Learners ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Causative Verbs

Causative verbs are used to indicate that one person causes a second person to do something for the first person. The causative verbs are : have, get, make (Croft, W. 2003:34) .              The present study aims at presenting the syntactic and semantic characteristics of causative verbs and investigating empirically the extent to which Iraqi EFL university learners’ master these characteristics. In addition, it aims at investigating the extent to which they can recognize and use causative verbs correctly; and their ability to differentiate the causative verbs from another types of verbs.          A test has been conducted to a sample of 100 Iraqi EFL university learners at their third and fourth year in the Department of English at the College of Education, University of Wasit during the academic year 2013-2014. The test has been exposed to jury members to measure its face validity.          Statistical means have been applied to the results of the test to investigate the perception and use of the college students in causative verbs. They have yielded certain conclusions that Iraqi EFL university learners at the third and fourth year face difficulties in perceiving and using the causative verbs. The rate of their correct responses in the whole test, (1291, 28.205%), is lower than their incorrect ones (3709, 71.795%). At the production level, the subjects’ incorrect responses (2434, 79.84%) reveal that they are unable to use causative verbs correctly whether syntactically or semantically. The difference in the rate of the incorrect responses of the perception (1275, 63.75%) and the use levels show that the learners of the third - fourth year face more difficulty at the use level than that at the perception one.

scholarly journals The Iraqi EFL Learners’ Use of Conversational Maxims at the University Level

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. p43
Author(s):  
Mohammed Jasim Betti ◽  
Karrar Salim Yaseen
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Test ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
The Other ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Gricean Maxims ◽  
University Level ◽  
Recognition Level ◽  
The University

The current study is an attempt to measure the Iraqi EFL learners’ use of conversational maxims at the recognition level. The study aims at testing whether the Iraqi EFL learners observe or flout the Gricean maxims, assessing the Iraqi EFL learners’ mastery of the conversational maxims, and identifying which maxim(s) is/are frequently flouted. The study hypothesizes that the Iraqi EFL learners flout all the maxims of conversation, the maxim of relation is the least flouted one, the Iraqi EFL learners find the maxims difficult to adhere to, and the maxim of quantity is mostly flouted. The subjects of the study are a hundred Iraqi EFL learners at the fourth-year, Dept. of English, College of Education for Humanities, University of Al-Muthanna. The data elicitation toolis a recognition test designed in accordance with nature of the study. The study brings forth the conclusions that the subjects have a difficulty in utilizing the maxims altogether, they flout all the conversational maxims in relatively different degrees, and the learners are mostly abided by the maxim of relation more than the other ones.

scholarly journals Strategies Used by Iraqi EFL Students To Process English Idioms

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (119) ◽  
pp. 33-52
Author(s):  
كمال حازم حسين ◽  
اشرف عبد الواحد ذنون
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
Important Indicator ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Difficult Part

Idioms are considered to be a type of phraseological units which are largely figurative in nature and widely used in human languages. In fact, the level of command of idioms serves as an important indicator of language proficiency. Many non-native learners of English do their best to be fluent and have a native-like proficiency; this entails, among other things, a good mastery of multiple words expressions in general and idioms in particular. Perhaps the most difficult part in learning idioms for EFL learners is learning both literal and figurative meanings of these expressions. The present research attempts to investigate the strategies used by Iraqi EFL learners of English to identify the meaning of unfamiliar idioms. To achieve the aim of the present research, it is hypothesized that there is no statistically significant difference among EFL university students as far as the guessing strategies are concerned. To examine the validity of this hypothesis, a sample was chosen from the second–year students at the Department of English (College of Education for Humanities / University of Mosul) during the academic year 2012-2013. The sample consisted of 39 students. Since the present research requires preparation of two tools, the researchers designed an idiom familiarity questionnaire and a questionnaire to identify the strategies used by the subjects to infer the meaning of idioms. The results reveal that there is statistically significant difference among EFL university students as far as the guessing strategies are concerned.                                                           

scholarly journals The Iraqi EFL Learners’ Use of Permission, Obligation and Prohibition

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 251
Author(s):  
Mohammed Jasim Betti ◽  
Zainab Kadim Igaab ◽  
Muna Talib Hussein Al-Ghizzi
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Different Types ◽  
University College ◽  
Recognition Level ◽  
Better Than

The study aims at specifying the different types of directives available in the literature about speech acts; showing their relationship; and investigating the ability of the Iraqi EFL learners to recognize and produce the aforementioned speech acts. To validate the hypotheses of the study, a test is used to measure the ability of the fourth year subjects, at Thi-Qar University, College of Education for humanities, to recognize and produce permission, obligation and prohibition. It is hypothesized that the Iraqi EFL learners’ performance at the recognition level is better than that at the production of permission, obligation and prohibition; their performance of permission at both the recognition and production levels is better than that of obligation and permission; they tend to use some specific linguistic forms which are characteristic of the types of directives. The study concludes that the subjects’ performance at the recognition and production levels do not reveal a moderate mastering of permission, obligation and prohibition. In spite of that, their recognition level is better than their production and they have weaknesses at the pragmatic level of the selected directives.

scholarly journals Suggestibility And Its Relationship To Emotional Thinking Among University Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 2786-2797
Author(s):  
Mohamed Abbas Mohamed, Sufyan Saeb Salman, Natik Fahal Al-Kubaisy
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Ibn Rushd ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
College Of Engineering ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Random Method

Identifying the level of suggestibility and emotional thinking among university students is the key aim of this research, as well as identifying the significance of differences according to gender (males - females), and the correlation between the two variables. In order to verify this, the researchers adopted the measure of suggestibility prepared by "Roman Kotov" (2004), Arabized by (Abdul Rahman 2014), where the number of its final paragraphs reached (79) paragraphs, and adopted the scale of emotional thinking prepared by Abdullah 2017). The scale consisted of (27) final paragraphs, and their psychometric characteristics were ascertained, where the two tools were applied to a sample of (160) male and female students who were selected in a stratified random method from four colleges at the University of Baghdad: (College of Political Science and College of Education / Ibn Rushd, College of Engineering, and College of Science), for the academic year 2019-2020. The results of the research showed the following: University students do not have a tendency to suggestibility. There are no differences between (males and females) in suggestibility. University students have emotional thinking. There are no differences between (male and female) in emotional thinking. There is no correlation between suggestibility and emotional thinking among university students.

Getting EFL Learners to Speak: Obstacles and Solutions

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (01) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Eulis Rahmawati
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Education ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
English Competence ◽  
Academic Year

This research investigates how process of speaking instruction takes place at IAIN SMH Banten. There are three main issues in the research problems: the process of teaching speaking, obstacles found in the teaching and learning process, and what efforts do they make to solve the obstacles in speaking. The process of teaching speaking discusses materials, preparation, procedures or steps in teaching speaking while obstacles and solutions discuss the speaking barriers that the students faced in speaking class and how they minimize the barriers. By applying descriptive qualitative research design to students of fourth semester in academic year 2014/2015, the result shows that the focus of speaking instruction at the fourth semester of English education department of IAIN SMH Banten seemed to let the students speak, without any language skills discussion as the feedback. At the same time, during the process of speaking instruction there are some problems faced by students. The first is  problem of limited English Competence dealt with students poor of vocabulary and the second is problems of psychological factors.

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