The inappropriate usage of English vocabulary by Arab learners of English

العناوين الأخرى

الاستخدام غير المناسب لمفردات اللغة الإنجليزية من قبل متعلمي اللغة الإنجليزية العرب

مقدم أطروحة جامعية

Matuq, Aminah Hamlan Mahmud

مشرف أطروحة جامعية

al-Khawlidah, Muhammad

أعضاء اللجنة

al-Najadat, Jumah
al-Sakarnih, Ahmad Khalaf
Muqbil, Ahmad Hamad

الجامعة

جامعة مؤتة

الكلية

كلية الآداب

القسم الأكاديمي

قسم اللغة الإنجليزية و آدابها

دولة الجامعة

الأردن

الدرجة العلمية

ماجستير

تاريخ الدرجة العلمية

2016

الملخص الإنجليزي

This study was conducted as a consequence of the dramatic shift of linguists' attitudes and viewpoints towards lexis in general and lexical errors in particular.

This study aimed at investigating lexical errors and their sources.

In order to fulfill the aims of the study, a translation text was prepared and distributed to the subjects which were chosen randomly.The sample of this study consisted of thirty undergraduate Jordanian learners of English at Mu'tah university at the academic year 2015/2016, aged between 21-22 years.

The lexical errors were defined, analyzed by using error analysis method, for the classification of lexical errors, Al-Zughoul's (1991), taxonomy was partially being used.

The findings of the study revealed that the subjects made a large number of lexical errors which fall into two main categories based on their sources; intralingual and interlingual errors, intralingual accounted for 51.8%, whereas interlingual accounted for 48.7%, each of these categories has other subcategories.

The results also revealed that the highest number of errors were "assumed synonymy" at 19.5%, followed by "similar form" at 14.4%, and collocation at 13.8%.

In addition, it was found that a number of factors influenced the subjects' production of lexical errors, such as literal translation, Arabic semantic transfer, lack of adequate L2 vocabulary, false concept hypothesized, and the intrinsic features of L2 vocabulary

التخصصات الرئيسية

اللغات والآداب المقارنة

عدد الصفحات

45

قائمة المحتويات

• APA
• MLA
• AMA

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

نوع البيانات

رسائل جامعية

رقم السجل

BIM-749042