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The Transfer of Arabic in the English Writings of Lebanese Students

Year: 1997

Type: article

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to show through error analysis the interference of the mother-tongue, Arabic, in the English writings of Lebanese students, which leads to language transfer. To this end, I have collected 73 English essays written by Lebanese sophomore students studying at the American University of Beirut. Since my mother-tongue is also Arabic, the transfer errors made by these students were easily spotted upon examining their essays, thus simplifying the task of error analysis. What remained was a subclassification of these errors. It turned out that the transfer of Arabic linguistic structures influenced the English writings of Lebanese students on the grammatical, lexical, semantic and syntactic levels.

Source: LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas)

Author: Nuwar Diab

Language: English

Topic: EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1936620067

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Cited by: 45

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