This study investigates the usefulness of acquiring English PVs (as a key component vocabulary) using listening activities. Therefore, this analyzes how Arabic speakers studying as foreign language (EFL) understand and use phrasal verbs through listening. A self-administered survey was distributed to 74 students, mainly from Saudi Arabia. They listened recording incorporating frequently used id...

Research on English phrasal verbs indicates that these lexical units are problematic and hence difficult to deal with by EFL learners. Thus, one common strategy learners use when encountering is avoidance: i.e. simply avoid decoding them in spoken or written content as well using their own speech writing. This study examines whether contextual cues, context surrounding verbs, could be of any he...

During text reading, the parafoveal word was usually presented between 2° and 5° from the point of fixation. Whether semantic information of parafoveal words can be processed during sentence reading is a critical and long-standing issue. Recently, studies using the RSVP-flanker paradigm have shown that the incongruent parafoveal word, presented as right flanker, elicited a more negative N400 co...