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The Presence or Absence of Definiteness in the Native Language and Its Impact on ESL Learning
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Abu-Melhim Abdel-Rahman – English Language Teaching, 2014
The purpose of this study was to determine if first language interference does play a significant role in the use of articles in English by native speakers of Arabic as compared to other ESL learners. An error analysis was conducted on the use of English articles in essays taken from two groups of advanced ESL learners. The essays were composed by…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Taxonomy, Role