THE BASIC GRAMMAR PROBLEMS FACED BY ARAB (LIBYAN) STUDENTS IN ENGLISH COMPOSITION - Diponegoro University | Institutional Repository (UNDIP-IR)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I ........................................................................................................ 1
INTRODUCTION............................................................................................... 1
1.1.............................................................................................................
Background of The Study ................................................................. 1
1.2.............................................................................................................
Problem Statement ............................................................................ 6
1.3.............................................................................................................
The Objectives of The Study ............................................................ 7
1.4.............................................................................................................
Scope of The Study ........................................................................... 7
1.5.............................................................................................................
Significance of The Study ................................................................. 8
1.6 Organization Of The Study ............................................................. 10
CHAPTER II........................................................................................................ 10
2.1 Literature Review ..............................................................................
2.2 Underlying theory .............................................................................
2.2.1 General Perspective on the Importance of Writing Skill ..........
2.2.2 Writing Skill in EFL Arab Context ...........................................
2.2.3 Difficulties Faced by Libyan Arab Students .............................

2.2.4 About Writing ...........................................................................
2.2.5 Teaching Writing .......................................................................
2.2.6 Effective Writing .......................................................................
2.2.7 Writing skill in EFL Arab Context ............................................
2.2.8 Comparing English and Arabic Writing Systems...................
2.2.9 CA (contrastive analysis)...........................................................
2.2.10 Communicative purpose............................................................
2.2.11 Categories of grammatical errors...............................................
2.2.12 Error...........................................................................................
2.2.13 Interlingual and intralingual errors............................................

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CHAPTER III ..................................................................................................... 34
3.1 Research design .................................................................................
3.2 Subjects .............................................................................................
3.3 Instrument .........................................................................................
3.4 Procedure ..........................................................................................
3.5 Population of The Study ....................................................................
3.6 Techniques of Collecting Data ..........................................................
3.7 Techniques of Analyzing Data...........................................................

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CHAPTER IV ..................................................................................................... 39
4.1 The First Instrument .......................................................................... 39
4.2 The Seconds Instrument .................................................................... 47
4.2.1 English Language Writing Test ................................................. 47
4.2.2 Result and Discussion ............................................................... 48
4.2.3 A Detailed Classification of Errors ........................................... 50
A. Tenses ........................................................................................
B. Prepositions ...............................................................................
C. Articles ......................................................................................
D. Active and Passive Voice ...........................................................
E. Verbs ..........................................................................................
F. Spelling Problems ......................................................................
G. Punctuation and capitalization ...................................................
H. Word Order ................................................................................
I. Singular and Plural ....................................................................
J. Morphological Errors ................................................................

4.3 Discussion .......................................................................................
4.3.1The Errors ..........................................................................
4.3.2 The Causes of the Grammatical Problems ........................
4.3.3 The solutions suggested to overcome these problems .....

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CHAPTER V ....................................................................................................... 77
5.1.............................................................................................................
Conclusion......................................................................................... 77

5.2.............................................................................................................
Recommendation............................................................................... 79
5.3.............................................................................................................
Suggestion.......................................................................................... 79
REFERENCES ................................................................................................... 81
APPENDIX.......................................................................................................... 83

LIST OF TABELS

Table 1

Beliefs ............................................................................................... 41

Table 2

Method used to learn English ........................................................... 44

Table 3

Difficulties realization...................................................................... 45

Table 4

The number and percentages of errors .............................................. 49

Table 5

Errors of tenses ................................................................................. 50

Table 6

Errors of prepositions ........................................................................ 52

Table 7

Errors of Articles ............................................................................... 54

Table 8

Errors of passive and active .............................................................. 56

Table 9

Errors of verbs ................................................................................... 57

Table 10

Morphological errors ........................................................................ 65