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Volume 11, Numéro 1, Pages 82-101
2025-06-04

Analysing Sentence Sructure Errors In Students' Writing Compositions: The Case Of First Year Students Of English At Oum Elbouaghi University



Authors : Alliouche Nadjiba . Beghoul Youcef .

Abstract

Writing is the most difficult skill for EFL learners, and the most serious problems they encounter in writing are related to sentence structure. In fact, many Algerian students of English are unable to produce well-structured English sentences, because of the presence of run-on and fragment errors. Hence, the present study is undertaken to determine the extent to which Algerian EFL learners face this problem in their writing compositions. To do so, an Error Analysis is conducted to find the frequency and percentages of these errors and their types, and subsequently to give possible explanations for their occurrence. The participants are asked to write a paragraph (around 15 lines) about an experience that had a great impact on their life. Only three types of fragments are found: Subject-only fragment (no finite verb), verbal-phrase fragment, and dependent-clause fragment, in addition to both types of run-on sentences: comma splice and fused sentence. However, the frequency of fragment sentences is very low in comparison with that of run-on sentences. This is attributed to the interference of Standard Arabic.

Keywords

sentence structure ; Error Analysis ; fragments ; runon sentences ; writing compositions

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