An investigation of the influence of l1 on EFL students paragraph writing : case of first year English language students at setif2 university

Abstract EN

English language students are exposed to acquire plenty of grammar knowledge during their academic years.

Nevertheless, grammar teaching at universities is thought to be marginal, and only taught as a separate module or whenever the need arises.

Moreover, students writing, namely essays are mostly full of grammatical errors due to L1 interference.

The aim of this study is therefore to analyze the impact of the native language (Arabic) on the grammatical structure used in the students' written paragraphs, and to provide some recommendations to better students' misuse of the EFL grammar.