The Effect of L1 Negative Transfer on EFL Saudi Students’ Use of Grammar in Writing
Abeer Hejab Eid Alotaibi
Abstract:The present study aimed at investigating the effect of the L1 negative transfer on the writing of EFL Saudi students. It examined the common grammatical errors that Saudi students made while writing in English and analyzed the sources of their errors. The samples consisted of English essays written by 74 freshmen female students enrolled at Majmaah University in Saudi Arabia. The samples were analyzed and the errors classified according to grammatical sub-categories including tenses, singular/plural markers, p… Show more
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