Abstract: This study attempts to analyze and determine the causes behind writing errors made by EFL Majors in Najran University. The study took place by the end of the second semester of the educational year 2017/ 2018. The tools for collecting the data are scripts of classroom assignments, quizzes, and final examinations written by undergraduate EFL majors studying in the Faculty of Science and Arts in Sharorah.
The research adopted an analytical descriptive approach. The findings have revealed that the most common writing errors are Auxiliary omission/ misuse of possessives and pronouns, subject-verb disagreement, misuse of tenses, sentence disorder, preposition errors, punctuation errors, word choice, spelling errors, article errors.
Keywords: EFL majors, writing errors, applied linguistics, competence.
Title: Linguistic Analysis of Writing Errors Made by EFL Majors in Najran University
Author: Aref Ali Aldeibani
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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