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كيف يستخدم الطلبة العرب من متعلمي الانجليزية الصيغ المضعفة؟
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2009
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English
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العربية
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صافي الدين الزعبي( باحث )
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يحتوي الكلام في اللغة الإنجليزية على بعض الكلمات التي تُنطق – و في سياقات محددة- بصوائت مختلفة عن الأصل و تدعى (weak forms) و هذه الكلمات من الأهمية بمكان لدرجة أنها تؤدي دوراً في تحديد المعنى المراد نقله للسامع. هدفَ هذا البحثُ إلى التحقق من أن الطلبة العرب يجيدون نطق ال weak forms و إلى لمعرفة حجم الصعوبات التي يواجهونها عند استخدام تراكيب و جمل تحتوي على ال weak forms.
This paper attempts to investigate the way Arab learners of English deal with weak form items and the difficulty they encounter in using such grammatical items in context. This problem was approached from two different avenues. I therefore carried out two separate tests. The first test, the pronunciation test, showed that Arab learners have a serious problem with pronouncing weak form items. The second test, the identification test, also demonstrated that Arab learners had a problem with identifying weak form words in context.
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