Abstract
This study investigated the frequent grammatical errors, found in the writings of Arab students’ taking English writing courses in AL-Hussein Bin Talal University Learners’ errors were considered positively as the best sources to identify students’ limitations in English writing. Therefore the present study intended to investigate the grammatical errors of Arab students’ writings in English in AL-Hussein Bin Talal University and to see if there are any differences in the grammatical errors according to year of study. To conduct this study data was collected from the writing sessions of writing classes that were taught during the fall semester of 2019. The data was collected, analyzed and categorized from students, all majoring in English Language and Literature and ranging from freshman to seniors. A Grammar test Questionnaire designed by the researchers was distributed to the students in these writing sessions. The results showed that the most frequent grammatical error was with the verb tense on a mean of (3.75), followed by errors in the article on a mean of (3.62), wrong word order on a mean of (3.57), noun ending on a mean of (3.40) and least was sentence structure on a mean of(3.39). The results also showed that the seniors on the grammar test on all its parts did better than the freshmen, juniors and sophomores that are the least problems were found among the seniors.
Highlights
Learning a second language depends on learning the skills of listening, speaking reading and writing
It agrees with the study done by Leman (2014) on finding the Common grammatical errors in students writing .his results showed that students make mistakes in word order, article, subject very agreement, verb tense and more
The results showed that the seniors, on the grammar questionnaire did better than the freshmen, juniors and sophomores, This agrees with the study done by Sönmez and Griffiths (2015) and Bataineh (2005).But from the study and the many studies done on the grammatical errors among students it is obvious that Writing in a foreign language is not an easy task for either students or teachers
Summary
Learning a second language depends on learning the skills of listening, speaking reading and writing These four skills allow the student to comprehend, produce and use the language in effective interpersonal communication. They are most often acquired in the order of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Writing skill is considered as the most difficult task for students because they are not proficient in the language and do not have good mastery of vocabulary and grammar. They have limited exposure to the language and seldom communicate using the language in daily life. All will result in students’ weakness in the different skills of the language and especially in the writing skill since it is an accumulative of all the other three skills
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