Masters theses : Arts
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Item Syntax of Question-formation A case study in a Saudi Secondary School(2004-12) Abdel Jabbar Muhammed SalihAcknowledgment Praise be to Allah the Almighty for his absolute guidance. My thanks are chiefly due to Dr. Es-Sadig Yahya Abdulla- my supervisor who- in spite of being too busy- accepted to shoulder this responsibility. He showed a great deal of politeness, wisdom and patience in dealing with many shortcomings ol‘ this attempt of mine. I admit that he gave me, during this course of‘ time, whatever assistance, advice or guidance I stood in need oi‘. I am glad to say that had it not been for his conscientious supervision, this work would not have come out the way in which it occurs now. I would like to acknowledge some of the help I have had for the completion of this task. Dr. Khojali Dean of Faculty of Arts, en-Neelain University had given me so invaluable help and brotherly advice. I would like to thank him particularly. l am also very grateful to Dr. Ibraheem et-Tikaina for nominating (with Dr. Khojali) Dr. Es-Sadig as supervisor. I will never forget his sincerely words at that time and I again am glad to thank him. I am also grateful to the Director General of Nejran Educational Zone, and to the Administration of King Fahd Secondary School, the English language teachers and the students whose co-operation made this study possible. I owe a particular debt to Dr. M.Zayid who put his private library under my disposal. I am also glad to than my friends Ustaz Gasmas-Seed Hamza and Ustaz Ahmed Muhammed Khair for their help and encouragement. I am obliged to thank the librarians at the English library at the Faculty of Arts, en-Neelain University: lady Muna, Zeinab, Nahid and Nadya. l have received :1 lot ol help and encouragement from all members of my family. Now, it is time to offer them (elder and younger) all of my deepest cordial thanks and l will keep praying for them. l also olilier my thanks to lady lnsaf who didi /1/vi lj; ---9 l am grateful as before to my supervisor Dr. Es-Sadig for all he has done for me.Item Investigating the Use of Conjunctions as Cohesive Devices in Writing among MBA Students Case Study: Sudan International University(ALNEELAIN UNIVERSITY, 2016) Ahmed Taha Elfaki AhmedAbstract This study aims to investigate the use of conjunctions as cohesive devices in writing by Sudanese business students by using the taxonomy of cohesive relationship as provided by Halliday and Hassan (1976). This study uses a qualitative research method for data collection and analytical descriptive method for data analysis. The researcher has administered a written test consist of two sections at the sentence and the paragraph levels distributed to 48 MBA students from semester one at Sudan International University (SIU). The results reveal that students misuse conjunctions and are not competent of their types. The study also reveals that some types of conjunctions are used more frequently than the others and in some cases they do not use them at all. This study suggests some recommendations such as teachers of English language at universities should raise student’s awareness and knowledge about the use of conjunctions as cohesive devices. English departments at universities should introduce extensive excurses for conjunctions that focus on writing techniques and practice related to the proper use of conjunctions as grammatical cohesive devices. IllItem COHESIVE DEVICES INAMERICANAND AFRICAN NOVELS:ACONTRASTIVE STYLOL INGUISTICSTUDY(AlNEElAN UNVERSLTY, 2002) HAMID EL-DOO MAHAItem AN NVESTIGATION OF WRITNG PERFORMANCE AMONG PRELIMI ARY_YEAR STUDE(AlNEElAN UNVERSLTY, 1999) Hamid Abdalla ArabiItem AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF NON-NATIVE ENGLISH TEACHERS’ PROBLEMS TO ACQUIRE ENGLISH LINGUISTIC & COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS & ITS EFFECTS ON SUDANESE STUDENTS »(Al-Neelain University, 2002) FARIDA HASAN HAMIDAlxslraet My aim is not to add anything to all that has already been said and written by myriads oliseholars and learned people in the lield oliteaelring English as a foreign language. All l would like to do is to make a plea to the lellow eounter|>arts that; why not join hands and make a I80” shill in the approach to the teaching system by breaking new grounds and enter new paratligrns ol teaching approach. This ideal couldbe aeeomplished iliwe ehange lroin Urammar Translation Method into Direct Method ol'a|1|>roaelt. 'l'o reach this ideal \ve will have to t|'a|1slo|'|11 the system that had been introduced by the colonial supremacy and maintained for many decades to come. llowever, the \vest has long losaken the Grammar 'l'ranslation Method and introdueet_l, carried and improved system ealled the direct methods. i i Were we, the non-native linglish teachers to revolulioni/.e the English Education system, we have to embark upon training ourselves each other to overcome obstacles met in linguistie and communicative skills sinee these have an inevitable impact that relleets our weakpoints. ln order to aehieve this goal we will have to meet the challenge ol English linguistic and eommunietive skills. Alter all lidueation is a slow proeess and in the long run, it will relleet in our students. lllItem SecondarySchool english Language Teachers And Their Role In The Deterioration Of The Standarrd Of English(AL-Neelain University, 2015) ZEINAB ALBAShIR MOHAMMEDThis study sets out to investigate Sudanese school English Language teacher and their role in the deterioration of the standard of English. A questionnaire was administered to 57 selected English language teachers based on convenient sampling techniques. Descriptive statistics techniques were used. The analysis revealed the 70% of the respondents agreed that they do not have sufficient salary which negatively affects their frustration in the teaching process and hence the learners achievement would become weaker and weaker, 50% of the respondents agreed that the absence of comfort factors will negatively impact on the leamers’ achievement in English, 60% of the respondents agreed that marginalization of teachers needs negatively affect students’ achievement in English, 50% of the respondents agreed that the absence of teachers rapport would negatively impact on the learners achievement in English and 80% of the respondents agreed that they are suffering a lot to find their living, a matter which affects their perfonnance inside the classroom.Item Investingating the lties in english collocations encountered by sudanes learnes of english at unvirsity levels(Al-Neelain University, 2012) mahasin ahmed mohmmedABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to investigate the problems of collocations encotmtered by Sudanese learners of English. The general assumption is that Sudanese learners of English at university level do not know how to use collocations in their writing.Moreover, the syllabi taught to Sudanese university students four levels do not cover the area of collocations sufficiently. This study attempts to identify collocation errors in the students’ performance and suggest possible solutions to them. This is accomplished through several steps: (l) Choosing 40 final students in the department of English, Faculty of Arts, at Omdurman Ahlia University as subjects. (2) 17 instructors of English, who are all holders of different degrees in English language, answered the teachers ‘questionnaire. They all teach in the department of English in four Sudanese universities. a)University of Khartoum Faculty of Education. b) Al-Neelein university. C)Omdurman Ahlia university. d) Al-Ahfad university for Women. (3) Two instruments for data collection were used: (a) Students’ test and (b) teachers’ questionnaire.The data were statistically analyzed. The results of the investigation have revealed the following: 1. About half of the Students face a problem when using English idioms. 57.5%of their answers were incorrect and they rarely use idioms in their writing.46.5% of the students’ answers were incorrect when using collocations with verbs. They also make errors in collocations with adjectives. 59% is the percentage of their errors. Errors in collocations with nouns are more than 58% . 2. According to Al-Ahlia subjects’ register the syllabus used at the four levels does not focus on the area of collocations. 3. The structure of English phrasal verbs, and idioms sometimes causes collocation errors.Item Investigating the Misuse of English Articles among EFL Sudanese University Students(Al-Neelain University, 2015) Eman Ali Mohammed IbrahimAbstract This research investigates the misuse of English articles among Alneelain EFL students; the subjects of the study are 50 students of linglish language, Faculty of Arts at Alneelain University. The aim of the study is to find out whether there is a problem of using article or not. lt also finds out the reasons for the misuse of articles with regard to the students ol Alneelain University. The study also tries to produce and provide suitable strategies for the students to help them use articles correctly. The researcher has adopted the descriptive and analytical approach to accomplish the aims of the research. The researcher has collected the data of the study through a test. The results of the study reveal that first year students face problems of choosing the correct article when they produce pieces of writing in English. Another problem is that students have more problems of using the indefinite articles; i.e. when there are words that begin with "u" as we can see in words such as (unity), they use the indefinite (an).[Their claim is that the letter ’u’ is a vowel letter]. The student‘s misuse of English articles is also due to mother tongue interferences; since Arabic has only one article (dl =the indefinite article) and the (zero article) is the indefinite article. E.g. “There was sand everywhere“.The study recommends students to practice a number ol articles (reading and listening) to be aware of their use. It also recommends teachers to give more attention and effort on how tackle the roots of the problem of articles and show they differ in Arabic and English.Item Word-Formalion Processes in Standard English and Modern Standard Arabic: Contrastive Analysis Study(AL-Neelain University, 2014) Tayseer Mohammed AwedThis thesis focuses on analyzing and contrasting the process of word-formation in Modem Standard Arabic (MSA) and Standard English (SE) in order to reveal the similarities and differences between them and their potential productively for pedagogical purposes, and it is useful for native and non-native linguists. Word-formation is a problematic area of research, especially in Arabic language, because there are some processes that have no specific rules but there are exceptions followed, the data for this study has been collected from different sources, complied works and analyzed in terms of morphology, productivity and semantic indications of both SE and MSA. It has been found that Standard English and modern standard Arabic reveal similarities as well as differences. The similarities are found in some general universals, such as affixation compounding, blending onomatopoeia, borrowing, conversion and acronyms.Item FACTORS INFLUEN CING THE CHOICE OF STRUCTURES OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE(Alneelain University, 2003) TAHA MOI-IAMMED ZEIN A.. EL. WAI-IID A.. ALLAHThe goal of this thesis is to explore objectively the problems which Sudanese University students at Al-Neelain University encounter in choosing correct English structures; more precisely, problems in the choice of verbs, tense parallelism, verb-noun confusion, prepositions, nouns and pronouns. It is argued that the intralingual factors and mother-tongue (Sudanese Arabic) interference and the overgeneralization are the basic issues for the occurrence of errors. A test which was employed, was ofaready-made materials nature, to get primary data from answers to one essay of the examinations given to the fourth-year students in the English Department in the 2001/2002 academic year at Al-Neelain University, Khartoum, Sudan. The subjects of the study were 100 male and female students, chosen randomly from a total of 180 students. The findings of this thesis were very surprising although Ll interference is the main factor that caused errors, the number of intralinugal errors is relatively high. The study consists of five chapters. Chapter (1) is a representation of a general background, namely the statement of the problem, the hypothesis, the research questions, the significance of the study, the objectives of the study, the method of collecting data, and research outline. Chapter (2) gives the literature review and theory in the domain of the study. Chapter (3) manifests the methodology that was setup in the study. Chapter (4) comprises the data analysis and the results that were drawn from the discussions of the results, and chapter (5) provides the consequences and recommendations.