The relationship of language anxiety with noticing and oral production of L2 forms: A study of beginning learners of Arabic

Attention to verbal morphology in L2 Arabic reading: An eye‐movement study

“…One of the major findings in attentional research in SLA is that not all linguistic forms are processed or learned in the same way (Goldschneider & DeKeyser, 2001; Spada & Tomita, 2010). One factor which influences the noticing, processing, and acquisition of novel forms (e.g., verb tense, case endings, and vocabulary items) in L2 input is salience (e.g., Azaz & Frank, 2017; Nassif, 2019; Simoens et al, 2018). Salience refers to the extent to which a specific property of the stimulus (e.g., a linguistic form) stands out compared to others in input (Ellis, 2018).…”

“…The physical characteristics of these features (e.g., visual length or number of letters [Simoens et al, 2018]; stress; number of phones, syllabicity, and sonority [Goldschneider & DeKeyser, 2021]) make them less likely to stand out in both written and aural environments. For example, Nassif (2019) explored the role of salience on the noticing and production of future temporal indicators in L2 Arabic. She found that the low‐salient future tense marker (the single‐letter bound morpheme prefix حـ, ħa) was less likely to be picked up by learners than the highly salient syntactic feature of time telling (composed of two free morphemes, i.e, الساعة ستة essaːʕa sitte “six o'clock”) in Levantine Arabic.…”

Implementation of Aptitude Treatment Interaction (ATI) in Nahwu Learning: Identification of Student Ability Characteristics

“…The role of Arabic today as the branch of the most widely spoken language in the United Nations of the six United Nations languages is not just a religious language (Wekke, 2015;Alwehaibi, 2021). Arabic has a complex grammar between learners and non-speakers (Madi & Al-Khalifa, 2018), These two things have an impact on the development of learners (anxiety) (Nassif, 2019). Complex cases, one of which comes from Arabic syntax or grammar known as Nahwu, errors in attaching the right vowel at the end of each letter of each word is a substantial error because it affects the meaning of a word (Ghani et al, 2012;Mahmoud & Abo El-Hamayed, 2016).…”