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- Title
THE OMISSION OF VERB TO 'BE' WHEN ACQUIRING THE PRESENT TENSE BY EFL ARAB STUDENTS: AN ERROR ANALYSIS APPROACH.
- Authors
Hussein Almaisari, Catrin Saleh Ahmed; Rasure, V. M.
- Abstract
This paper pinpoints errors made 'when acquiring verb 'to be' as an auxiliary or main verb in the present tense in English by a group of one hundred native speakers of Arabic studying to become EFL teachers at Faculty of Education, Zingbar-University of Aden, Yemen. All participants werefirst year students 'who had studied English grammar in this year. To collect the data of the study, a translation task from Arabic into English was performed. The objective of this investigation is the identification and analysis of students' errors regarding the use of verb to be in the present tense in English in the students writing. The researcher chose statistical package for social sciences, which is the most commonly, reliable, and applicable system, to be used in the process of data analysis. This paper deals with the review of related literature, methodology, data analysis and interpretation, conclusion and suggestions. The errors have been showed through various tables and diagrams. Andfindingsprovide useful information to design remedies to help students to become successful in the use of verb to be in the present tense in English. Since Arabic does not require copula verbs in the present tense, the study reveals that most of the intended students when translating the six Arabic sentences given into English omitted verb to 'be' in forming the present tense. Undoubtedly they resorted to their first language (Arabic) using literal translation to solve this problem. Therefore, it has shown that the vast majority of the students' errors are due to the effect of their mother tongue (interlingual), and afew are as a result of intralingual errors 'when acquiring the present tense in English. The present studyfocuses on Intelingual and intralingual errors.
- Subjects
VERBS; PRESENT tense (Grammar); ENGLISH as a foreign language; ENGLISH language acquisition; ERROR analysis in education
- Publication
Literary Endeavour, 2020, Vol 11, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
0976-299X
- Publication type
Article