Mother tongue interference a study of interlingual errors in the written performance of the EFL preparatory year female students at al-Baha university in Saudi Arabia
Other Title(s)
تدخل اللغة الأم : دراسة الأخطاء في الأداء الكتابي لدى طالبات اللغة الإنجليزية في السنة التحضيرية في جامعة الباحة
Author
Source
Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
Issue
Vol. 2, Issue 2 (30 Jun. 2018), pp.118-135, 18 p.
Publisher
Publication Date
2018-06-30
Country of Publication
Palestine (Gaza Strip)
No. of Pages
18
Main Subjects
Educational Sciences
Languages & Comparative Literature
Abstract EN
Language teachers have long recognized the phenomenon of native language influence on the learning of a second language.
the present study attempted to investigate the effect of mother tongue interference in English writing essays of one hundred and twenty (120) English foreign learners (EFL) preparatory year.
the study identified and categorized morphological errors according to surface structure taxonomy.
the study then presented the influence of mother tongue interference (MTI) in the writing.
the researcher used a comparative linguistics taxonomy model to identify the source of errors and both taxonomies by dulay, burt, and krashen (1982).
the questionnaire in this study was used to collect data support the results of the study, as well as to identify the weak points in participants writing skills.
the findings revealed a variety of (lexical and grammatical) errors.
the majority of errors were found to be attributed to free morpheme rather than bound morpheme.
omission errors were more frequent than other types of errors.
furthermore, the analyses of results showed statically significant effect between (MTI) and students' interlingual errors.
the study results include recommendations for the improvement of student's performance in writing task/based on results of study, some recommendations were included for improvement student's performance writing skill.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Shahrani, Hind Mugit. 2018. Mother tongue interference a study of interlingual errors in the written performance of the EFL preparatory year female students at al-Baha university in Saudi Arabia. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences،Vol. 2, no. 2, pp.118-135.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-898811
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Shahrani, Hind Mugit. Mother tongue interference a study of interlingual errors in the written performance of the EFL preparatory year female students at al-Baha university in Saudi Arabia. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Vol. 2, no. 2 (Jun. 2018), pp.118-135.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-898811
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Shahrani, Hind Mugit. Mother tongue interference a study of interlingual errors in the written performance of the EFL preparatory year female students at al-Baha university in Saudi Arabia. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. 2018. Vol. 2, no. 2, pp.118-135.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-898811
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 133-134
Record ID
BIM-898811