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Study of English Clauses Errors in Syntactic Structures of
Iranian Students

Farhad Pakdel
Ali Akbar Khansir

Abstract

The aim of this research paper is to examine Study of English Clauses Errors in Syntactic Structure of Iranian Students at Bushehr Payam Noor University in Bushehr city. The role of error analysis in language teaching is always vital. Error analysis as one of applied linguistics subjects has been discussed among language teachers, syllabus designers, linguistics more than fifty years. They have recognized that it can be used as one of the learning strategies in helping to language teachers and learners in acquiring their target language. In this research work, 30 Iranian EFL students in the age range of 20 to 27 at under graduate level were participated. Outcome of this research paper showed that the number of errors of Iranian under-graduate students in the clause structure test was 594. The results of this article indicated that the learners need sufficient exercises to be conducted in the classroom in order to increase their knowledge of English clauses and reduce their errors.

Keywords: Iranian Students, Error Analysis, Contrastive Analysis, Noun Clause, Adjective Clause, and Adverbial Clause

Introduction

The aim of this study is to reveal clauses errors of Iranian English learners at under graduate level at Payam Noor University in Bushehr, Iran. Before, we consider the role of error in language teaching. We investigate the place of grammar in language and then discuss briefly to clause structure in language. Khansir and Pakdel (2016) argued that every language has its grammar. Grammar is primarily concerned with the study of language. It explains to us the difficulties and problems involved in learning a language and it guides us to how language is effectively used in our day-to-day life. They added that grammar of a language can help us in order to make familiar with sentence structure. Thus, it enables us to understand how sentences are patterned and how they are used in our practical life for proper and effective communication. Freeman (2003, p. 13) mentioned that "grammar is an area of knowledge that linguists and language teachers study". Ur (1996, p. 75) argued that" grammar is sometimes defined as the way words are put together to make correct sentences". Khansir (2008) indicated that language teachers and specialists are of the view that grammar can help first, second and foreign language learners develop linguistic competence as part of communicative competence in language learning. However, writing of language as one of the grammar subjects has always been a big problem in learning language is not only for non-native speaker of the target language but also for native speaker of the language. Based on the discussion, many researchers mentioned that writing is art and writer is artist, from of this point of view, the researchers believe that writing is not easy even for the native speaker (Khansir, et al, 2013).

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Farhad Pakdel
Department of English, Faculty of Paramedical Sciences
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
Shiraz
Iran

Ali Akbar Khansir (Corresponding Author)
Bushehr University of Medical Sciences
Bushehr
Iran
ahmad_2004_bu@yahoo.com
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