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Errors Made by the Students at the Departments of English and Arabic in Acronyms: A Contrastive Study
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Errors Made by the Students at the Departments of English and Arabic in Acronyms: A Contrastive Study
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Errors
Made by the Students at the Departments of English and Arabic in Acronyms
By:
Ahmed Mohammed Ali Abdul
Ameer and Areej As’ad Ja’afer AlTaie
Acronyms are one of the processes of word formation. It
is defined as a word formed from the initial letters of a group of words.
The
problem of the study is that the students at the Department of English cannot
produce acronyms. On the other hand, the students at the Department of Arabic
do not have this phenomenon in their textbooks. This study aims at investigating
acronyms in English and Arabic and identifying and analyzing the errors the
students of both departments are liable to make. It finds out the reasons
beyond the students’ errors. It is hypothesized that: 1- Arab linguists believe
that acronyms are not found in Standard Arabic and thus, are not extensively
studied unlike English 2- Students at the Department of English are unable to
identify the original words from which the acronyms are constructed 3- Their
achievement in constructing acronyms is much better than producing their
original words 4- Students at the Department of Arabic are incapable of
recognizing the original words from which the acronyms are constructed 5- They
are bad at producing acronyms 6- The performance of the students at the Department
of English is better than the performance of the students at the Department of
Arabic.
A diagnostic test has been designed and
applied to a sample of 200 students at the departments of English and Arabic at
the second year, College of Education, University
of Babylon, 2009.
In the light of the students’ responses, it is
concluded that: (1) acronyms have not been studied or written about thoroughly in Arabic,
unlike English, (2) some of the acronyms that are used in the Internet and the
Arabic media are borrowed from English and other global languages without
translation, while most others are translated into Arabic and written in their
full forms without using acronyms,(3) the students at the Department of English
face real difficulties in knowing the words from which acronyms are
constructed, (4) most of them can easily
construct acronyms but they face more difficulties in discerning the words from
which acronyms are constructed, (5) the achievement of the students at the Department
of English is better than that of the Department of Arabic, (6) the subjects’ errors have been attributed to the
following factors: (i) interlingual transfer, (ii) intralingual transfer, (iii)context of Learning,(iv) communication strategies.
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