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Iraqi EFL M.A. Students' Errors in Using Purposive Expressions in English | ||
| Al-Zahraa Journal of Linguistic and Literary Studies | ||
| Volume 0, Issue 0, September 2025, Pages 84-109 PDF (496.76 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research Article | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The current study investigates the problems faced by Iraqi M.A. students in the University of Pune-India when using purposive expressions in English. Its aim is to find out some difficulties that affect the performance of Iraqi M.A. students in using such a grammatical area. It is a two-fold study, i.e., descriptive and practical. While the former describes students’ difficulties that affect them, the latter is practical in which the participants of this study are exposed to a test of two questions: (i) recognition, and (ii) production. The subjects’ responses are analyzed according to Selinker’s hypothesis of Inter Language. The researchers conclude such results as Iraqi M.A. students encounter more difficulties in using purposive expressions at the production level (= 137, 34.25%) than at the recognition one (= 125, 31.25%). Most of errors are related to the subjects’ performance of processes like native language transfer, training transfer, overgeneralization, etc. that all shape the inter language structure. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Iraqi EFL M.A. Students; Error Analysis; Inter language hypothesis; Purposive Expressions | ||
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