Investigating Arab Young Learners’ Usage of Inflectional Suffixes and Its Influencing Factors
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Proficiency in inflectional suffixes, such as “-ed,” is fundamental for mastering English grammar, yet it remains a persistent challenge for many English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners, particularly among Arab students. This study investigates the difficulties faced by 100 Libyan elementary school students in Malaysia in using the “-ed” suffix for past tense and past participle forms. Grounded in Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory (1978) and employing a mixed-method approach, the research identifies the types, frequency, and causes of errors. Quantitative analysis reveals a low proficiency level, while qualitative findings highlight frequent errors linked to overgeneralization and a limited understanding of specific grammatical rules. These challenges are attributed to ineffective teaching strategies prevalent in Libyan schools in Malaysia. The findings emphasize the need for targeted instructional interventions and the integration of communicative language teaching (CLT) practices to address these deficiencies. By shedding light on these issues, the study offers valuable insights for designing pedagogical approaches that enhance learners’ mastery of “-ed” inflectional suffixes and overall grammatical proficiency.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.217 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it