The problems of using third person singular morpheme in the English language from Kurdish EFL learners’ perspective

الملخص EN

The present study is an attempt to investigate the omission of the third person singular morpheme done by the Kurdish EFL learners.

The study of inflectional morpheme omission is crucially important in English language learning because this error requires the language teachers and researchers to observe the stages of language learning process attentively.

The foreign language learners come across several difficulties in comprehending and using these morphemes that do not exist in their native language.

This study gathers data from a group of junior students through a couple of instruments; they are spoken test and written production test.

The central issue of this study is the error of the absence of third person inflectional morpheme in present simple tense.

It aims to describe and provide an overall analysis for omitting this inflectional morpheme from the Kurdish EFL learners’ perspectives.