Rizgar Qasim Mahmood

University of Wollongong, Wollongong campus · School of Humanities and Social Inquiry (HSI)

Language learning is a complex process influenced by individual personality traits (Ellis, 2008). Recognizing these traits can lead to more effective and personalized educational approaches (Dörnyei & Skehan, 2003), focusing on enhancing motivation, perseverance, and learning preferences. Educators can create successful language learning experience...

The research on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing has garnered considerable attention over the years, particularly concerning the impact of corrective feedback (CF) on students' errors. However, in the context of Kurdish EFL students, this area of research has received limited attention, despite its potential to enhance their grammatical...

Vocabulary is a fundamental aspect of language learning, and acquiring a rich vocabulary is essential for achieving fluency in the target language (TL). Morphology, the study of word formation, plays a critical role in building vocabulary. Morphology provides learners with an understanding of how words are constructed and how their forms change bas...

Corrective feedback has been one of the controversial topics in second language acquisition, L2 learning, and teaching. Corrective feedback could be in written or oral forms. Much has been written and published on this debatable topic. The purpose of the current study is to review the most cited published articles from 1990 to 2022. Reviewing resea...

To be able to use the target language sentence structure efficiently, a speaker needs to learn and have a very large number of words (Nation, 2013). Research shows that understanding the meaning of a word is not sufficient, rather, it involves more than just its meaning; such as spelling, and grammatical behavior (Pigada & Schmitt, 2006). Vocabular...

Written Corrective Feedback has been one of the most controversial topics (Waller, 2015), and it has been researched extensively. Still, the lack of research among Kurdish EFL learners made it necessary to conduct the current research. This study focuses on investigating learners’ perceptions of written corrective feedback and its types. It attempt...

Written Corrective Feedback has been one of the most controversial topics (Waller, 2015), and it has been researched extensively. Still, the lack of research among Kurdish EFL learners made it necessary to conduct the current research. This study focuses on investigating learners’ perceptions of written corrective feedback and its types. It attempt...

Written Corrective Feedback has been one of the most controversial topics (Waller, 2015), and it has been researched extensively. Still, the lack of research among Kurdish EFL learners made it necessary to conduct the current research. This study focuses on investigating learners' perceptions of written corrective feedback and its types. It attempt...

Grammar is one of the most important parts of learning language. grammar shows the basic structures and rules for making words and sentences also grammar has an important role language component for forming words and constructing English sentences among EFL/ESL learners. most of the time English learners ignore or don’t pay attention to know about...

Grammar is one the important parts of learning any languages. Therefore, it is important to investigate what are the impacts of grammar on speaking anxiety among ESL/EFL learners. Students always face challenges when they speak if they do not know how to use the correct grammar rules. This research attempts to investigate the impact of grammar o...

The Impact of Assimilation and Some Phonetic Patterns on English Language Pronunciation Assimilation is one of the most important aspects of English language pronunciation. Thus its crucial to investigate the impacts of assimilation on English language pronunciation. Learners of English language cannot always understand everything that a native s...

Collocation is a group of two or more words that co-occur together in language to make the sound of English more natural also it is one of the smart ways to improve English language proficiency. Therefore, it is important for new learners to know something about it. This research aims to investigate the role and importance of collocations to improv...

Self-Assessment As Learning Strategy In Learning English As A Second \ Foreign Language. This study aims to explore the importance of Self-assessment as learning strategy in learning English as a second / foreign language and discusses the importance of having experienced teachers or trained teachers for self-assessment as learning strategy in lear...

Of all the many languages spoken around the world, English one of the most accessible to learn. It has a fairly simple verb tenses system, quite a basic alphabet, and is very flexible. You can quickly learn some basic English words. So in kurdistan nearly most of the people try to learn English as a second language for their purpose. This paper foc...

One of the most controversial topics among teachers and researchers is students' various responses to Written Corrective Feedback (WCF) (Waller, 2015). When most English language learners are exposed to the English language during the learning process, they compose paragraphs and essays in their writing classes, where they receive different types o...

This paper examines the perceptions of college-level ESL/EFL learners towards written correction feedback (WCF) and the different types of WCF that can contribute to improving their writing skills. The results of this research can be applied in ESL/EFL classes and help teachers to be more aware of how to give corrective feedback in an encouraging w...

The issue of native and non-native English language teachers has been the topic of debate for many decades (Braine, 2013). This paper shows non-native English-speaking teachers’ abilities in teaching English as a second/foreign language in general and a pronunciation class using YouGlish as a practical tool for L2 teachers and learners. This paper...