A Cross-Sectional Investigation of the Difficulties Encounter Arabic Students in Using English Adjectives: Error Analysis
The author investigated the difficulties encounter Arab second language English learners in using English adjectivesacross four levels of English proficiency. Sixty students, fifteen from each year, were randomly selected. The subjectswere undergraduate students at the English Department, Benghazi University, Libya. Test that covered most of thesemantic and structural characteristics of English adjectives was used as an instrument of collecting data in thisresearch. All of the errors were analyzed in the frame of Error Analysis Theory to second language acquisition. AChi-square test of independence revealed that there is no significant difference in the types of errors (interference anddevelopmental) committed by the students of the four years. Qualitatively, a through analysis of the types of errors andtheir possible causes were highlighted to assist ESL/EFL teachers and to help them reduce future problems regardingteaching English adjectives to Arab speaking learners of English as a second language.