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Name: Tahia Awad El-Deeb

Position: Assistant Lecturer, Department of English, Faculty of Arts

Year of Appointment: 2019

Date of Master's Degree: 2025

Address: Sohag

Courses Completed :

1 - Scientific Writing Course

2 - Digital Transformation Course

3 - TOEFL Course

4 - Scientific Quotation Course

Master Title

An error Analysis of English Indefinite Articles: A Case Study of English dDepartment Students in the Faculty of Arts, Beni-Suef University

Master Abstract

ABSTRACT Recent research in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) emphasizes the significance of learners’ errors as they help to know and predict the difficulties involved in acquiring an FL/SL. The present study is an attempt to identify and classify the errors made by Arab EFL learners in their use of the English indefinite articles “a” and “an”, which have no equivalent in Arabic. The subjects of the present study are 124 first-year students at the English Department, Faculty of Arts, Beni-Suef University. The researcher uses two tests as data collection instruments. The first one is a translation test, and the second one is an MCQ test. To analyze students’ errors, the researcher will adopt Corder’s (1973) model of error analysis. This model consists of five steps: (1) data collection, (2) identification of errors, (3) description of errors, (4) explanation of errors, and (5) evaluation of errors. Participants’ errors are classified into three main categories, namely, omission, addition, and substitution, based on the Surface Structure Taxonomy (SST) adapted from Duly, Burt, and Krashen (1982). These major categories are further classified, according to their possible sources, into interlingual and intralingual errors for the purpose of finding out the role of L1 (Arabic) and L2 (English) in learners’ article misuse. The findings of the study show that participants faced difficulty in the use of the English indefinite articles (“a” and “an”) in a proper way in the two tests. The results also reveal that the target language is the reason behind most of error types committed by students. Keywords: English indefinite articles, Surface Structure Taxonomy, interlingual and intralingual errors.

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