EFL university students' recognition of sentence patterns and elements

Abstract EN

This research aims at investigating how well EFL university students in the Department of English Colleges of Basic Education/ University of Mosul master the patterns of the English sentence.

It hypothesizes that students of EFL do not have the level of proficiency of English Grammar that enables them to recognize different patterns and elements of sentences.

The research also hypothesizes that there are some of the sentence patterns that are more easily recognized by EFL students than others.

With (50) participants, the instrument used for testing these hypotheses is a questionnaire designed by the researcher.

This questionnaire is used to measure students' knowledge and command of the seven patterns of the English sentence.

Using the software package SPSS, the data is analyzed.

The results show that participants are still unable to learn and develop their recognition of correct sentence elements and patterns.

Moreover, some patterns have been mastered by EFL learners better than others.