The current quantitative descriptive study investigates Iraqi EFL students’ use of the English relative pronouns. Twenty Iraqi college students were asked to fill out a multiple choice item survey. The survey involved items that check the learners’ acquisition of English relative pronouns. The findings showed that the learners faced some difficulties in the use of relative pronouns. These difficulties were obvious in various errors of omission, addition, selection, word order, and avoidance. The findings also implied that the mother tongue might be one of the reasons behind learners’ misuse of relativization (El-Badarin, 1982) in addition to overgeneralization and ignorance of rules restriction, which could be attributive to the lack of exposure to English rules and insufficient practice of grammatical activities. This study offered pedagogical implications that suggested instructors’ use of contrastive analysis in order to explain the similarities and differences between Arabic and English. This explanation helps learners understand their errors and assists them in using the correct form of relativization in the target language.
Abbas Ghubin AL-Zubaidy, B. (2017). The Acquisition of English Relativization by Iraqi EFL Learners. Annals of the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, 45(April - June (A)), 300-312. doi: 10.21608/aafu.2017.16666
MLA
Baidaa Abbas Ghubin AL-Zubaidy. "The Acquisition of English Relativization by Iraqi EFL Learners", Annals of the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, 45, April - June (A), 2017, 300-312. doi: 10.21608/aafu.2017.16666
HARVARD
Abbas Ghubin AL-Zubaidy, B. (2017). 'The Acquisition of English Relativization by Iraqi EFL Learners', Annals of the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, 45(April - June (A)), pp. 300-312. doi: 10.21608/aafu.2017.16666
VANCOUVER
Abbas Ghubin AL-Zubaidy, B. The Acquisition of English Relativization by Iraqi EFL Learners. Annals of the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, 2017; 45(April - June (A)): 300-312. doi: 10.21608/aafu.2017.16666
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