An assessment of grammar among ELF learnres : Case of 3rd year students in haoudh secondary school -el bayadh

Abstract

The current dissertation tackles the problem that both third year pupils and teachers face at secondary schools and which is related to the low level of students in English grammar. It aims at investigating the real causes behind their grammar difficulties which manifested in the occurrence of too many grammatical errors. These errors were studied using error analysis method for the purpose of exploring the most common errors committed by those learners and searching for the major sources behind making them. One of the most important interests of this research work was to determine whether the L1 interference was the major cause of making such grammatical errors or the intralingual factors caused by the target language