The study was completed in fall semester 2004 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The topic for the study was "The Relationship between Student Learning Styles and L2 Acquisition in Two International High Schools' English Language Classes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia." The students learning sty…
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Recent research has claimed that the presence and/or absence of a morphological marking of causative/inchoative verbs in the learners' respective native language results in difficulty in the acquisition of these verbs in languages such as English, Spanish, and Turkish (Montrul 1…
The main research question of this study was why Arab learners of English as a Second Language should make so many reading and spelling errors. An analysis of a corpus of misspellings, taken from handwritten technical reports, showed that most errors involved vowels: either omis…
The present study aimed to compare the effects of semantic and thematic clustering on learning English vocabulary by Saudi students. It investigated whether thematic grouping or the use of meaningful context facilitates vocabulary learning. It was also conducted to shed light on…
This study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that some of the items included in Form 1, Stage II of the Canadian Language Benchmarks Assessment (CLBA) reading subtest favour certain cultural groups whose first language orthographies differ markedly. It was posited that Manda…
This study examined the production of lexical stress by native speakers of Jordanian Arabic, English, and Arab learners of English. Experiments 1 and 2 examined the acoustic correlates to lexical stress in Arabic. Experiments 1 and 2 show that Arabic speakers produce stressed sy…