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Difficulties in Pronouncing English Morphemes among Saudi EFL Students at Albaha University. A Case Study in Almandag

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Abdalla Ahmed Abker, Ibrahim·2020·Arab World English Journal
DOI 10.24093/awej/vol11no2.27

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This study attempts to investigate difficulties in pronouncing English morphemes among Saudi EFL students at Albaha University, in Saudi Arabia.The researcher tries to answer different questions in this study.Do students pronounce English morphemes correctly?Do they pronounce correct morpheme adds to verb present?Do students pronounce the right morpheme adds to verb past?The significance of this study the researcher tries to let students correct their mistakes on the pronunciation of English morphemes.Also, to let students practise more pronunciation about English morphemes nouns and verbs.The main aim of this study is to fill the gap of pronunciation problems in pronouncing English morphemes.The participants were twenty-five students reach level five.The researcher used Descriptive Statistical Method and the data were collected by one mean of data collection oral recorded tests.The data were analysed by (SPSS) program.The study arrived at the following results: Saudi students faced problems in showing the correct pronunciation of English morphemes for both nouns and verbs.Students face difficulties to distinguish between which morpheme is correct.They ignored the rules of using English morphemes in general and there is a lack of practising them.The recommendations of this study are (1) Students need to revise the rules of English morphemes of nouns and verbs.(2) They need more concentration about using morphemes of both nouns and verbs.(3) Students need more practice about the pronunciation of English morphemes of plural nouns and verbs (present and past tense) in conversations and classrooms.

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  • Acquiring inflectional morphemes by Arabic EFL learners in Saudi Arabia requires further research.

    “Acquiring inflectional morphemes by Arabic EFL learners in Saudi Arabia requires further research (Khan, 2022;Abdalla, 2020;Wahid and Farooq, 2019).”

    From Transformative impacts of explicit morphological instruction on irregular inflectional acquisition in Saudi EFL learners (2024) · cites this paper as Abdalla, 2020

    The Suggestions for Further Research (page not specified) propose studying EFL curricula’s treatment of English morphemes and comparing English and Arabic morphemes. The Abstract describes Saudi EFL students’ difficulties with pronouncing noun and verb morphemes. These passages support further research on related morpheme difficulties, but do not specifically call for research on how Saudi Arabic EFL learners acquire inflectional morphemes. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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  1. Hewings, M. (2004). Pronunciation Practice Activities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. Hornby, A.S. 2005.Oxford Advance Learner's Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Authors
Abdalla Ahmed Abker, I.
Venue
Arab World English Journal
Publisher
AWEJ Publishing
Published
2020-06-15
Volume
11
Issue
2
Pages
395-410
ISSN
2229-9327 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.24093/awej/vol11no2.27
OpenAlex
W3040906259
Cited by
16
References
7
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 5
FWCI
10.47
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Arab World English Journal (publishedVersion)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (publishedVersion)
  • SocArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • SocArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
Keywords
pronunciation difficulties, EFL learners, Saudi university students, verb inflection, plural nouns, pronunciation errors

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