Teaching the plural noun of 's' to Saudi Arabian students

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ShobujMiah
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Teaching the plural noun of 's' to Saudi Arabian students

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Hi all,

I wanted some advice from your experiences about teaching the plural noun of 's' to Saudi Arabian students, especially when it comes to reading. I have found from experience that they tend to omit it a lot. I kept thinking to myself what could be the reason. After much thought, I came to the conclusion which could be a possible explanation, that in Arabic, they don't have such a rule of just adding a letter to a singular noun to make it plural. One of their rules, which is in most cases, it's a totally different word or what we might call an irregular plural noun like qalam (pen)/aqlaam (pens). Yes they do have a regular rule like Mudarris (teacher)/Mudarrisseen (teachers), but still, it's not the case of just adding a letter.
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