Analyzing the errors made by EFL college students in ‘verb to’ be at recognition and production levels

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The study aims at investigating Iraqi EFL college students' errors in ‘Verb Be’at recognition and production levels.

The study is restricted to the students in the Department of English, College of Education / University of Baghdad in the academic year 2011- 2012.The population consists of (168) Iraqi EFL students distributed over three sections A, B, C.

Thirty students are chosen randomly to represent the main study sample and other twenty students represent the pilot administration. To achieve the aim of the study , two tests have been constructed.

The total number of items in the test is (24).

While the first test represents recognition, the second test represents production.

Results of the students' errors on the test indicate that most of the students' errors occurred in using be plus ed participle and plural concord at both production and recognition levels simultaneously .This study ends with a number of recommendations.