EFL Students' Performance on the Deictic Use of Person Deictics . A Case Study of the Faculty of Education – Hantoub, University of Gezira, Sudan(October,2018) | ||
| المجلة العربية للآداب والدراسات الإنسانية | ||
| Article 12, Volume 3, Issue 9, 2019, Pages 335-360 PDF (1.26 M) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ajahs.2019.44652 | ||
| Author | ||
| Mona Elsayed Abd-Elwahab Mohammed | ||
| Department of English - Faculty of Education – Hantoub University of Gezira - Sudan | ||
| Abstract | ||
| إجادة الإشاريات الشخصية ضرورية للتخاطب الناجح. لذلک هدفت الدراسة إ لى عکس مدى قدرة طلاب اللغة الإنجليزية على الإستخدام الإشاري للإشاريات الشخصية في التخاطب الشفوي. تم توزيع إختبار بصورة عشوائية على (50)طالبة جامعية تخصص لغة إنجليزية, الفصل الدراسي السابع. وصفت هذه الدراسة أداء الطالبات على حسب مقدرتهن على إستعمال: ’نحن‘ لمخاطبة شخص ما, الضمائر الإنعکاسية التوکيدية لتأکيد الفاعل و ’بواسطة+ضمير إنعکاسي‘ لتوکيد ’من دون مساعدة‘ و إستعمال ضمائر الملکية المستقلة کتتمة حرفية. أظهرت الدراسة الآتي: کل الطالبات تقريبا(98%) کن غير قادرات على إستخدام ’نحن‘لمخاطبة شخص ما وقد عُزِي هذا بصورة رئيسية إلى عدم معرفة أن ’نحن‘ هو خيار ممکن. أغلب الطالبات(70%) لم يستطعن التمييز من ناحية المعنى بين الإستعمالين التوکيديين للضمائر الإنعکاسية: أغلب الإجابات الخاطئة عُزيت لعدم معرفة نوع التوکيد الذي يتضمنه کل إستخدام. أغلب الطالبات (80%) کن غير قادرات على إستخدام ضمائر الملکية کتتمة حرفية. وقد عُزِي هذا إلى التعميم الخاطئ ل ’ضمير ملکية+إسم‘ وعدم معرفة لا محدودية المعنى الذي تعکسه هذه الضمائر عندما تستخدم بعد إسم. Abstract : Mastering person deictics is essential for successful communication. This study, therefore, aimed to reflect the extent to which students majoring in English could use person deictics deictically in oral communication. A test was administered to (50)university students (chosen randomly) majoring in English in the seventh semester. This study described the students' performance in terms of their ability to use 'we' for addressing someone, emphatic reflexive pronouns(emphasizing a performer) and 'by+ emphatic reflexive'(stressing without help) and independent possessive pronouns as prepositional complement.. The study has shown the following:Nearly all of the students (98%) were unable to use 'we' for addressing someone. This was mainly due to the ignorance that 'we' is a possible choice. Most of the students (70%) could not differentiate between the two emphatic uses of reflexive pronouns semantically; most of the incorrect responses were due to the unawareness of the type of emphasis that each use implies. The majority(80%) were unable to use independent possessive pronouns as prepositional complement. This was mainly attributed to the overgeneralization of 'possessive pronoun+noun' and unawareness of the indefinite meaning of these pronouns when used in post genitive constructions. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Personal; reflexive and possessive pronouns | ||
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