Most Common Grammatical Mistakes Made in English by L1 Arabic LearnersRobert Lado (1957), as well as most contrastive linguists, have shown that the learner's first language may have a big role to play in the process of second language learning. Due to di
Rana Abid Thyab
College of Education for Woman, Tikrit University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.2.4.3
Keywords: -mistakes - L1 Arabic slearne
Abstract
Robert Lado (1957), as well as most contrastive linguists, have shown that the learner's first language may have a big role to play in the process of second language learning. Due to differences between languages, whether in their syntactic, grammatical, pragmatic, or phonological systems, difficulties in learning a second language may arise. One of the most frequent difficulties Arabic L1 students face when learning the English language is learning the English language grammatical system and their ability to communicate effectively according to that.
This paper pinpoints common grammatical mistakes which English learners make and possible solutions to such mistakes are listed and explained. Illustrations are given of how the differences between the Arabic and English language regarding the grammatical system cause L1 Arabic learners of English to make mistakes and errors in their English learning process and how this prevents learners from meaningful English communication. The aim of this paper is to prove that English students make similar grammatical and syntactic mistakes which are repeated and frequent. That is, many grammatical mistakes of Arabic native language speakers are orderly made and
