Approaching Sustainable Linguistic Development via Addressing Digital Natives' L1 Dominance in EFL Writing

Al-Nagheya, Marwa Hassan

doi:10.21608/jsdses.2023.184589.1013

Approaching Sustainable Linguistic Development via Addressing Digital Natives' L1 Dominance in EFL Writing

Document Type : scientific research and articles

Author

Marwa Hassan Al-Nagheya

Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Port Said University, Egypt

10.21608/jsdses.2023.184589.1013

Abstract

Proficient knowledge of English in the modern age gives access to learning, upscaling social class, and even upgrading income. Quality education, UN sustainable development goal 4, is a key to achieving this. One way of getting closer to that end is by promoting inclusiveness, equitable chances, and lifelong learning as the UN advises. This paper reports on a study that made use of a digital plugged classroom, allowing learners to apply DDL on concordances of an online corpus to gain authentic knowledge of colligation and get far from having marked language. EFL writing tends to render problems deeper than the usual grammar, spelling, and tense. The way EFL learners put together words to form meaning seems to be affected with their preestablished knowledge of L1. The study at hand takes its focus to unnatural colligations. Participants managed not only to self-correct their faulty colligations but also to retain all of them; the thing that makes sustainable linguistic development and sustainable learning possible.

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Main Subjects

Quality Education

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