Linguistic and Social Factors Affecting Saudi First Year University Students; A Close Look at Common Errors
Journal Title: European Journal of Business and Social Sciences - Year 2012, Vol 1, Issue 5
Abstract
In reviewing the literature of teaching English as a second language, learner’s errors have become of prime importance. Linguists have recently considered them as an indicator of how the learner approximates and internalize a system that is intermediary between the learner’s mother tongue and the target language. It has shown also, that learner’s errors are classified into two kinds interlinguistic and intralinguistic. During the course of the researcher’s years of teaching in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, some common errors were found to be present in the linguistic output of the learners. Those errors are found to be common among other Arabic speaking learners. By using quantitive and qualitative analysis, the errors of the students that are in the beginning stages of their learning have to be examined. The purpose of the study is to identify those linguistic errors among Saudi student and the effect of social organization on the students. The distribution and the frequency of the errors of composition written by first year students at the University of Taif were examined closely and analyzed in an effort to find the best way to combat those errors. To that end, the students were given an impromptu to write a composition to elicit, the errors. The errors were then identified, described and explained.
Authors and Affiliations
Sawsan Amin Ahmed BEd MEd PhD| Faculty of Arts, Department of Foreign Languages Taif University Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Abdulamir Ali Alamin BA MEd PhD| Faculty of Arts, Department of Foreign Languages Taif University Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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