Iraqi Nursing college student use of future form

Abstract EN

This study are mainly concerned with different forms of future tense , as one of the constructions in English language on the hand , and a problematic area for Iraqi ESP learners on the other hand.

Therefore , the study aims at measuring the students manipulating different forms of future tense.

To achieve this goal, the study hypothesizes : 1) Most of Iraqi ESP university students face difficulties in mastering different forms of future tense.

2) Iraqi ESP learner , inaccurate responses at the production level may be attributed to misuse of different forms of future tense.

To verify these hypotheses , a diagnosis test has been adopted and applied to a sample of Iraqi ESP university students at their second year , college of nursing , university of Babylon.

Then , their response are collected and analyzed to give the following results: 1) The students , performance has revealed that ESP university face difficulties in mastering different forms of future tense.

2) The highest rate of their incorrect responses to questions of production level confirm that the subjects misuse the different forms of future tense.