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Arab Efl Learners’ Stress of Compound Words

dc.contributor.authorAlzi'abi, Safi Eldeen
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-10T06:35:34Z
dc.date.available2023-01-10T06:35:34Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-29
dc.identifier.issn1731-7533
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/45249
dc.description.abstractCompound words are ubiquitous in English. Stressing compounds is difficult for EFL learners and native speakers, especially when the meaning is not a sum of the constituent parts. This study explores Arab EFL learners’ stress strategies and outlines their difficulties. It examines whether any of these factors (a) word class, (b) orthography, (c) understanding of phonetics and phonology, (d) age and (e) grade point average (GPA) influence their behaviour and levels of success. It involves 130 second and third-year Jordanian English majors in reading 50 opaque non-frequent compound words, 25 with right-stress and 25 with left-stress. The majority opted for right-stress, producing about half of the stimuli correctly. They right-stressed more often in compound verbs, nouns and adjectives of all spelling forms. Their performance was slightly influenced by the study of phoneticsandphonology, training in stress and GPA. However, there was no noticeable relationship between their stress performance and age. Notably, the subjects needed more training in compound word stress production.en
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiegopl
dc.relation.ispartofseriesResearch in Language;1en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectEnglish compound wordsen
dc.subjectcompound word stressen
dc.subjectArabic prosodyen
dc.subjectArab EFL learnersen
dc.titleArab Efl Learners’ Stress of Compound Wordsen
dc.typeArticle
dc.page.number85-108
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationIsra University, Jordanen
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dc.identifier.doi10.18778/1731-7533.20.1.06
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