the feedback of inter lingual and intra lingual errors in designing articles and prepositions test format

the feedback of inter lingual and intra lingual errors in designing articles and prepositions test format

the purpose of this study is to identify, describe and explain students errors in interlingual and intralingual at ahvaz university. many students in our department make many errors in the use of prepositions and articles in their written productions. these errors include valuable information on the strategies used by them to acquire english as l2. it is through error analysis that the teacher can assess learning and teaching and determine the priorities for future efforts.this serves as an empirical evidence to prove that the problem exists and to corroborate the hypothesis that learners difficulties are due either to interlingual or intralingual interference.

for this purpose, a corpus drawn from the written productions of 92 first-year students of english was used to test the formulated hypothesis. the results shown that 79, 15 % of the errors made in preposition and 72,85% in articles were caused by negative transfer of the persian language, the remaining ones were due to overgeneralization and false concepts. the findings revealed that students attention should be drawn on the difference between persian and english use of preposition and articles. they need to be exposed more to the difficulties which may be encountered in the target language in order to internalize them and then to be able to use them.