Error analysis of the difficulties the students of the department of English of the College of Arts at Basrah University encounter in understanding the contextual meaning of English polysemes
Other Title(s)
تحليل أخطاء للصعوبات التي يواجهها طلاب قسم اللغة الانجليزية في كلية الآداب جامعة البصرة في فهم المعاني السياقية للكلمات الإنجليزية المتعددة المعاني
Joint Authors
al-Musawi, Zahra Nasir Talib
al-Halim, Salwa Adnan
Source
Journal of Basrah Researches : Humanities
Issue
Vol. 36, Issue 4 (31 Dec. 2011), pp.5-28, 24 p.
Publisher
University of Basrah College of Education for Human Sciences
Publication Date
2011-12-31
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
24
Main Subjects
Topics
Abstract AR
تلقي هذه الدراسة الضوء على موضوع مهم جدا في مادة القراءة و الاستيعاب و هو تعدد المعاني فاشتراك معنيين أو أكثر بكلمة قد يربك طلاب اللغة الإنكليزية و هم يحاولون التوصل إلى المعنى السياقي المراد لذلك تم اختبار قدرة طلاب المرحلة الثالثة على استخدام المؤشرات اللغوية لتخمين المعنى عند ترجمتهم لثلاثين جملة تحتوي على خمسة عشر كلمة متعددة المعاني و تظهر النتائج الإحصائية إن طلاب المرحلة الثالثة يواجهون صعوبة في فهم المعاني السياقية للكلمات المتعددة المعاني على الرغم من أنهم درسوا مادة القراءة و الاستيعاب في المرحلتين الأولى و الثانية في قسم اللغة الإنكليزية و تقترح الباحثتان للتغلب على مثل هذه الصعوبة زيادة خزين مفردات الطلاب و تطوير قدراتهم على تخمين المعنى.
Abstract EN
The present paper sheds light on a very important subject in reading comprehension, which is polysemy.
The existence of two or more meanings attached to one English word form may confuse students of English in the process of arriving at the intended contextual meaning.
Third–year students' ability to make use of linguistic clues in guessing meaning is tested by asking them to translate thirty sentences involving fifteen polysemes.
The statistical results have shown that third–year students of English encounter serious difficulty in understanding contextual meanings of polysemes although they studied reading comprehension in their first and second years at the department of English.
The researchers, thus, suggest that surmounting such a difficulty involves increasing the students' vocabulary and developing their guessing ability.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Musawi, Zahra Nasir Talib& al-Halim, Salwa Adnan. 2011. Error analysis of the difficulties the students of the department of English of the College of Arts at Basrah University encounter in understanding the contextual meaning of English polysemes. Journal of Basrah Researches : Humanities،Vol. 36, no. 4, pp.5-28.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-320184
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Musawi, Zahra Nasir Talib& al-Halim, Salwa Adnan. Error analysis of the difficulties the students of the department of English of the College of Arts at Basrah University encounter in understanding the contextual meaning of English polysemes. Journal of Basrah Researches : Humanities Vol. 36, no. 4 (2011), pp.5-28.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-320184
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Musawi, Zahra Nasir Talib& al-Halim, Salwa Adnan. Error analysis of the difficulties the students of the department of English of the College of Arts at Basrah University encounter in understanding the contextual meaning of English polysemes. Journal of Basrah Researches : Humanities. 2011. Vol. 36, no. 4, pp.5-28.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-320184
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes appendix : p. 27
Record ID
BIM-320184