Abstract

The purpose of the present research study was to carry out an error analysis on the use of the present simple tense. We investigated the errors in a corpus of 23 essays written by 23 first year students of the School of Sciences at NUM. The instrument used for this was students’ written essays in the English language. All the errors related to the present simple tense in these essays were identified, described, explained and evaluated. Specifically, we aimed to identify the sources of the errors. Furthermore, we conducted an interview on the types of errors based on the essay results among 28 students and discussed the results.

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