Yahya Al-Marrani

Sana'a University · Department of English

This study investigated the difficulties used in writing theses and dissertations in the departments of English at Yemeni universities. Data was collected from 100 MA and Ph.D. students through a questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS descriptive statistics. The results revealed that Yemeni postgraduate students face various difficulties, including...

The current study aims to explore English expressions of gratitude that are used by Yemeni female speakers in female-female and female-male interactions at Sana'a University, Yemen. The participants of the study consisted of 230 undergraduate students (115 males and 115 females). The data of the study were collected through a Discourse Completion T...

This study aims to identify the types of English expressions of gratitude that are employed by Yemeni Male Speakers in Male-Male and Male-Female interactions. The participants of the study consisted of 230 students (115 males and 115 females) from Sana’a University. The data of the study were collected by using a Discourse Completion Test (DCT) que...

This study aims to identify the types of English expressions of gratitude that are employed by Yemeni Male Speakers in Male-Male and Male-Female interactions. The participants of the study consisted of 230 students (115 males and 115 females) from Sana’a University. The data of the study were collected by using a Discourse Completion Test (DCT) que...

This study investigated the difficulties used in writing theses and dissertations in the departments of English at Yemeni universities. Data was collected from 100 MA and Ph.D. students through a questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS descriptive statistics. The results revealed that Yemeni postgraduate students face various difficulties, including...

This study aims to identify the strategies used in writing theses and dissertations at Yemen universities. A quantitative research method was employed to collect data from 100 MA and PhD students, 21 supervisors, and 19 examiners through a questionnaire and analyze it using SPSS descriptive statistics. The results showed that postgraduate students...

This study attempts to investigate the writing problems encountered by Yemeni EFL learners. The sample of the study comprised 70 undergraduate students from Sana'a University. The data were collected using a questionnaire to identify Yemeni EFL Learners' Writing Problems. The results of the study indicated that students have some crucial problems w...

The current study attempts to investigate the use of suggestion strategies among Yemeni learners of English at private universities. The participants of the study were 41 undergraduate students from English Department in the three private universities. The data were collected using a Discourse Completion Test (DCT). They were analyzed according to...

Abstract The present study is an attempt to identify problems in translating collocations in legal text from Arabic into English in contracts. It followed the descriptive analytical method. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher used three instruments: 1) Translation Test: aims to identify the problems and the strategies that transl...

The current study investigated the types of invitation strategies as produced by Yemeni EFL learners. The study participants were 171 undergraduate students from Sana’a University. All of the participants were relatively homogeneous in terms of their cultural background. The data were collected by using Discourse Completion Test (DCT). The analysis...

This article attempts to investigate the use of request perspectives in Yemeni Arabic. The sample of the current study consists of 336 undergraduate students, namely 168 male respondents and 168 female respondents. They were asked to respond in Yemeni Arabic to twelve different situations in which they carried out the speech act of request. The dat...

The current study explores the types and frequency of external request modifications in Yemeni Arabic as produced by male speakers the study participants were 336 undergraduate students (168 male participants and 168 female participants) from Sana’a University, aged 20-23. All of the participants are relatively homogeneous in terms of their cultura...

The focus of language studies in first language teaching and learning of Arabic language, for a long while, was on grammatical competence of the language learners at the level of phonology, morphology and syntax. However, then this focus has shifted from looking at the grammatical competence of the learners to looking at their pragmatic competence...

This is a socio-pragmatic investigation into polite request strategies made by Yemeni learners of English as a foreign language. For this study, 196 Yemeni learners of English were asked to respond in English to six different situations in which they carried out the speech act of request. The data was collected using a Discourse Completion Test (DC...

This paper attempts a comparative and contrastive analysis of the subsystems of the prepositions in Arabic and English, in terms of their uses, function and meanings in order to find the major similarities and differences between Arabic and English and to account for any possible deviations that may characterize the performance of Arabic learners....