Abstract:
Writing is a complex process which demands cognitive analysis and linguistic synthesis .It is even more complicated to write in a foreign language, and it takes considerable time and effort to become a skillful writer. Many studies indicate that for EFL students, there tends to be interference from their first language in the process of writing in English. The present study seeks to explore EFL learners' major writing difficulties by analyzing the nature and distribution of their writing errors and it also investigates whether there is a relationship between students' L1 and their writing in English. To fulfill the aims of the study, we have prepared a research study for examined English writing samples a group of students in middle division and then categorized the errors according to the following taxonomy: grammatical, lexical/ semantic, mechanics, and word order types of errors. Understanding linguistic differences between students' L1 and English may help the learners to reduce interference from their first language. Mother tongue is known to influence second language acquisition, both as a process and a product. The current study aims to examine the influence of Arabic language on the different aspects of nglish in the writing of the EFL The role of mother tongue in second language acquisition swings in two ways with one school of thought claiming that proficiency in mother tongue is useful in second language learning and another calling it interference influence. Whereas theories abound which claim that the language learning strategies that a user acquires or applies in the case of the mother tongue help them in SLA as they apply the best possible strategies in its acquisition.
