A Cross-Sectional study of Egyptian EFL Student-Teachers' Vocabulary Size

English Students’ Vocabulary Size and Level at a Private University in West Java, Indonesia

“…Their research has revealed that the participants' average vocabulary size is 3.715,20 word-families. Gibriel (2017) has found that the second and the fourth semester Egyptian English as Foreign Language (EFL) students, respectively, know approximately 6.751 and 7.566 word-families. In China, the research result of Yang et al (2019) shows that Chinese graduate students averagely know 7.274,75 wordfamilies.…”

Investigating Writing Strategies, Writing Anxiety and Their Effects on Writing Achievement : A Mixed Method Design

“…Some researchers have found that high anxious students produced better essays than low anxious students (Bloom, 1980;Powers, Cook, & Meyers, 1979). Another study by Fowler and Kroll (1980) reported no significant differences between writing anxiety and writing performance whereas, the majority of studies revealed that writing anxiety correlates negatively with students' writing performance (Abdel Latif, 2007;Al Asmari, 2013;Daly, 1978;Erkan & Saban, 2011;Gibriel, 2017;Hassan, 2001). One of the early studies was carried out by Book (1976) who examined students' apprehension and its effect on writing performance.…”

Crosslinguistic Influence on EFL Students’ Writing : A Contrastive Analysis Study of Interlanguage Errors

“…Grammatical errors have various aspects, such as, use of verb tense, word choice, modality, prepositions, singular/plural forms, fragments, pronouns, transitions and parallel structure (Bennui, 2008;Edrogan, 2005;Liu, 2013;Ridha, 2012;Silva, 1993;Watcharapunyawong & Usaha, 2013;Hammad, 2016,). Lexical errors are attributed to literal translation (Bennui, 2008;Gibriel, 2017Gibriel, , 2019Hammad, 2016;Ridha, 2012) where students tend to use direct translation which causes interlanguage errors, while mechanical errors emerged from the variations between the NL and TL in the process of punctuation, essay structure and spelling. Since the present study is concerned with EFL written texts, these three areas (grammatical, lexical and mechanical) will be examined.…”