Yazan Almahameed

• Amman Arab University

The current study aims at investigating the difficulties encountering Jordanian EFL students in the writing problem statement section. The study grouped those difficulties into two main categories, namely academic skills difficulties and language skills difficulties. It has been noticed that undergraduate, as well as postgraduate students, lack the...

The study seeks to gain insight into the role of some factors in listening comprehension. The first factor that the study investigates is the interest of listener, while the second factor is speaker's first language or accent. As a secondary purpose, the study explores the extent to which listening causes difficulty for Jordanian learners of Englis...

ABSTRACT: The present study aims chiefly at gaining a deep insight into the process of resolving lexical and structural ambiguity. As a secondary purpose, the study attempts to examine the impact of meaning-dominance and syntactic category of a word on resolving ambiguity. The research method of this study is descriptive qualitative in nature. For...

ABSTRACT Causative-inchoative construction is a pair of verbs discussing the same notion, which is a state of change with a different form for each verb. It has been noted that causative-inchoative alternation constitutes a learnability problem for Arab EFL learners and very few studies addressed this language form among Arab learners and more spec...

ABSTRACT Language transfer has an immense influence on all subsystems of the second language. Traditionally, the concept of language transfer was viewed as the effect of first language on the acquisition of the second language. Language transfer can be categorized into two types; negative transfer which stems from differences between first language...

Causative-inchoative construction is a pair of verbs discussing the same notion, which is a state of change with a different form for each verb. It has been noted that causative-inchoative alternation constitutes a learnability problem for Arab EFL learners and very few studies addressed this language form among Arab learners and more specifically...

The current study aimed at investigating the salient syntactic and semantic errors made by Jordanian English foreign language learners as writing in English. Writing poses a great challenge for both native and non-native speakers of English, since writing involves employing most language sub-systems such as grammar, vocabulary, spelling and punctua...

The current research paper attempted at investigating the use of prepositions of standard, prepositions of possession and prepositions of accompaniment by some Jordanian learners of English. A total of 53 Jordanian English Majors participated in the study from the department of English language at Princess Alia University College. In collecting the...

English and Arabic are two major languages which have many differences and similarities in grammar. One of the issues which is of great importance in the two languages is transitivity and intransitivity. Therefore, this study compares and contrasts transitivity and intransitivity in English and Arabic. This study reports the results of the analysis...

The current study aimed primarily at investigating the acquisition of preposition stranding and pied piping by Jordanian EFL speakers. As secondary purposes, the study attempted to supply convincing accounts for the occurrence of preposition stranding and pied piping based on previous literature carried out on this area of language. The study also...