Unmasking the Mistakes Insights into the Origins of the Morpho-Syntactic Flaws in University Students’ Writing
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The present study is grounded on error analysis (EA) of the written work of Master one LMD students of the English department at the University of 8 Mai 1945 - Guelma -. This research work intends to detect the morpho-syntactic errors in English language writing. To attain the desired goals of the study, the researcher has relied on case study approach. In this respect, we hypothesize that overgeneralization and false concept hypothesized may cause morpho-syntactic error. a corpus analysis of sixty- three (63) written compositions where errors have been analyzed. Research findings revealed that errors Master one LMD students often commit are basically due to the lack of foreign language (FL) knowledge that has been caused by overgeneralization and false concept hypothesized at the morpho-syntactic level.
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