Students’grammatical difficulties in written expression

Abstract EN

The present study aims at investigating the grammatical difficulties encountered by first year students at the department of English, university of Bejaia.

furthermore, the study tries to shed light on students’ attitude towards grammar.

the data were collected through two research instruments, namely : a corpus analysis of 48 students’ writing productions and a questionnaire designed for the population under study.

the results obtained by the corpus analysis of students’ written production revealed the existence of many errors particularly in the use of tenses, prepositions, subject-verb agreement and word order.

concerning students’ attitude towards grammar courses, the findings collected from the students’ questionnaire indicate that most of the students acknowledge the importance of grammar in developing their writing skill.

however, the respondents recognize that they face grammatical difficulties in writing.

furthermore, they consider that the scheduled grammar sessions are insufficient