Analysis of university students' errors in English language prepositions : a case study of 1styear English language students, the faculty of languages and linguistics

الملخص EN

This study was carried out to identify and investigate the problems of error analysis in English language prepositions encountered by 1st year students at the faculty of languages and linguistics, university of Zalingei.

the researchers used a descriptive analytical method.

the population of the study consists of students and teachers of some Sudanese universities.

the instruments were used for data collecting are; a questionnaire and diagnostic test.

SPSS was used to analyze the data.

more than 80% of the students failed in diagnostic test to put the prepositions in their correct positions.

this justifies that students need to be given adequate activities on prepositions that focus heavily on written texts.

students should be given adequate activities on prepositions particularly, written texts in context.