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| Abstract : Perpustakaan Tuanku Bainun |
| The writing problems of Kurdish students in the English department were worth studying and investigating. This study examined some selected writing problems, such as misuse of tenses, misuse of singular/plural forms, subject-verb agreement, articles, prepositions, spelling, and logical connectors. Data collection was based on written essays from 31 students, both female and male. The students made numerous errors related to these issues, which indicated their weak command of the English language. The investigated grammatical errors were as follows: spelling errors (801 errors, 39.77%), misuse of tenses (548 errors, 27.48%), articles (261 errors, 13.89%), subject-verb agreement (157 errors, 8.79%), prepositions (122 errors, 5.22%), misuse of singular/plural forms (87 errors, 4.31%), and logical connectors (12 errors, 0.53%), totaling 1988 errors. The causes of these errors were interlingual and intralingual, which were presented and explained based on the data collection and analysis. The selected errors in this study did not cover all the writing problems of the Kurdish students. Therefore, other types of errors, such as the use of capital letters, word order, word choice, and misuse of words, were suggested for further study in future research |
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