Kholoud A. Al-Thubaiti

Umm Al-Qura University · Department of English Language

This chapter has fourteen sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology will resume next year; 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology, and Lexical Semantics; 8. Onomastics; 9. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 10. New Englishes and Creolistics; 11. Second Language Acquisition; 12....

تناول هذا الفصل مناقشة الجدل العلمي حول التعليم المبكر للّغة الأجنبية وأثره على اللغة الأم، وذلك من خلال استعراض نتائج أدبيات البحث العلمي في هذا المجال حسب بيئات التعلم المختلفة، وشرح الإطار النظري لهذه الدراسات وكيف شُكلت توجهات الرأي العام بهذا الخصوص. ويخلص هذا الفصل الى أنه لا خوف على اللغة الأم من التعلم المبكر أو حتى الانغماس المبكر في اللغة...

This study investigated the effect of the first language (L1) gender system on the second language (L2) acquisition of verbal gender agreement in Standard Arabic. It examined L2 learners from different L1 backgrounds, including English, Filipino, Urdu, and Romance, which have varying gender systems. Urdu and Romance have grammatical gender, whereas...

This chapter has thirteen sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology; 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology, and Lexical Semantics; 8. Onomastics; 9. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 10. New Englishes and Creolistics; 11. Second Language Acquisition; 12. English as a Lingua Fr...

This study investigates whether second language (L2) speakers can pre-empt a first language (L1) property which involves uninterpretable features, such as resumption. The Interpretability Hypothesis predicts persistent L1 effects in L2 grammars because uninterpretable features resist resetting beyond some critical period (Tsimpli and Dimitrakopoulo...

This study examines whether the second language acquisition (L2A) of syntactic properties at the interfaces is problematic for L2 learners. English verb phrase ellipsis (VPE) was tested as an interface property which involves feature interpretability. Two subtle contrasts of VPE at different grammar-internal interfaces were examined: (a) copula be...

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This chapter reports on a study that investigates whether L1 Arabic speakers can acquire the English aspectual contrast between the present simple (e.g. ‘plays’) and present progressive (e.g. ‘is playing’). The study was conducted with 143 Saudi Arabic college students of English and eleven native speakers. Following their performance on a cloze te...

This chapter reports on a study examining the long-term effects of input and age of L2 learning on the English proficiency of Saudi Arabic speakers. The participants were 132 adult college students who had started learning English in school at different ages. Findings show that input measures are stronger predictors of performance than is age of L2...

This thesis reports a study of the effects on long-term proficiency of starting to learn English in a minimal input setting (the classroom) at different ages. A total of 132 Saudi Arabian college students participated in the study, 50 of whom started learning English in elementary school (3-11 years) and 82 in middle school (12-13 years), along wit...

English be and have stranding differ under vP ellipsis: *John slept and Mary was too vs. Peter saw your parents last week, but he hasn't since. Rouveret (2006) claims that -ing has an interpretable progressive feature that cannot be elided (unless recoverable), whereas -en has an uninterpretable perfective feature which deletes freely. In Arabic, s...

A recent account of fossilization in adult second language (L2) grammars is the ‘Interpretability Hypothesis’ (Hawkins & Hattori, 2006; Tsimpli & Dimitrakopoulou, 2007). It proposes that properties associated with uninterpretable features not already activated in the first language (L1) grammar will pose a learnability problem for older L2 speakers...