Journal of Al-Farahidis Arts

Learning foreign languages is a hard work, vocabulary is one of the main skills that students need to learn to master in order to learn and develop their knowledge of foreign language. Games are an effective method in enhancing the knowledge of foreign vocabulary items. games is one of It is believed that games can affect language learning and vocabulary improvement through entertainment. Many foreign language learners face difficulties related to vocabulary learning and keep these words in long-term memory because there is no practice or real use of the learned vocabulary in classes. Survivor games is one of the most important method that can help in learning the foreign language and its vocabulary. This method facilitates learning vocabulary in competitive games and memorizing them when needed by using them in different language skills. Therefore, this study aims to explain and show the importance of using survivor games in developing language skills and effective vocabulary learning. This paper essentially tries to clarify the effectiveness of learning vocabulary through entertainment, drawing a relation between survivor games and vocabulary improvement. Finally, survivor games are helpful for teachers and students as a procedure for language acquisition.

This study analyses consonant clusters in Quranic Arabic (QA). It also investigates the phonological phenomenon affecting the syllable structure in the QA. QA avoid clustering consonants in a single syllable. Based on Optimality Theory (OT), Prince and Smolensky (1993) provide an account to prevent consonant clusters. In this study, it is argued that the syllable pattern CVCC is the only pattern reflecting consonant cluster in QA. However, this pattern is manifested by the interaction of two factors: (i) the short vowel omission and (ii) the resyllabification of a new syllable pattern. Accordingly, this study hypothesises that the syllable pattern CVCC is not basic in QA, since the consonants left after the omission of shorts vowels are joined to the preceding syllable which has an already made coda. A s result, a complex coda is made at the end of the syllable to which the consonants left are attached forming a new non-basic syllable pattern CVCC. Besides, this pattern occurs in final position only. Other patterns such as CV, CVV and CVVC do not violate the rules of OT. With the processes of inserting, omitting, modifying of certain vowels and a glottal stop, these pattern prevent consonant cluster.