Browsing by Author "Fareh, Shehdeh"
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Item Arab EFL learners’ acquisition of verbs of senses(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2012) Saeed, Aziz Thabit; Fareh, ShehdehThis study attempts to explore the difficulties that Arab EFL learners of English encounter in the use of five verbs of senses when used as copulas, main verbs, main verbs with a metaphorical use, and as parts of idioms. A questionnaire consisting of three parts was specially designed to elicit the necessary data for this study at the levels of recognition and production. The subjects of the study were 30 randomly selected senior English major university students. The results of the study show that the students encountered tangible difficulties in using the five target verbs. A hierarchy of difficulty was established and the main causes of the problem were identified.Item Dictionaries as a potential source of error for Arab EFL learners: Evidence from verb argument structures(Adam Mickiewicz University, 1997) Hamdan, Jihad; Fareh, ShehdehItem Parallel conjunctive relations in EFL(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2004) Yagi, Sane M.; Fareh, ShehdehItem Some contextual considerations in the use of synonymous verbs: The case of steal, rob, and burglarize(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2006) Saeed, Aziz Thabit; Fareh, ShehdehThis paper explores the use of the synonymous verbs burglarize, rob and steal in various authentic contexts in an attempt to identify the semantic and syntactic constraints that differentiate them from one another. The study, drawing data from newspaper articles, books, spontaneous speech as well as the BNC and concordance systems, shows that each of these words possesses semantic and syntactic features that distinguish it form the other two. The study also shows how contextual factors determine the choice of one verb rather than the other. After presenting many illustrative examples that reveal the peculiar nature of each verb, the paper attempts a componential analysis of these three synonymous items that further illustrates the uniqueness of each one of them.