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THE PROBLEM: Various learners of ESL have various problems regarding English pronunciation. Most languages have a five-vowel phonetic system and the complicated sixteen-vowel English phonetic system seems difficult to master for ESL learners. Moreover, ESL learners with Arabic L…

Countrywide the United Arab Emirates experiences a 47% failure rate of students who take an international English for Speakers of Other Languages examination (Preliminary, 2006). The Preliminary English Exam is used as a benchmark exam for the diploma program of one of the large…

This study is a sociolinguistic investigation of the use of four English generic pronouns (he, she, he or she, singular they) by Arabic-speaking second language learners of English. This study takes a different approach to the investigation of second language (L2) acquisition an…