Analysis Of Grammar Errors In The Written Productions Of Second Year Students Of Biskra University

Language learning is the process of trial and error through which learners form hypotheses, and then they accept them or reject them. The present paper reports the grammar errors of the second year students at Biskra University, and the factors that caused these errors. (N=33) students were to write paragraphs to be used as sources for data collection, and the data analysis was descriptively done. The researcher found 49 grammar errors that were mainly related to omission, addition, forming and ordering. The first factor that caused the students’ errors was inter-lingual transfer because they often transferred the system of Arabic language (L1) into English language (L2). The second factor was Intra-lingual transfer, for the students transferred within English itself.