AU - Alwan,Ali AU - Supervisor: Muhammedzade, Behbud TI - An analysis of the errors made in writing by Iraqi learners of English PY - 2014/// CY - Nicosia PB - Cyprus International University KW - Hata analizi KW - Error analysis KW - Kontrast analizi KW - Contrastive analysis N1 - 1; CHAPTER ONE; 1; INTRODUCTION; 1; Presentation; 1; Background of the Study; 3; General Poblems; 5; The Rationale of the Study; 6; The Aims of the Study; 6; Statements of the Problem; 7; Research questions; 7; Limitations; 7; Assumptions; 8; Definition of Terms; 9; Significance of the Study; 10; Scope of the Study; 10; Organization of the Thesis; 12; CHAPTER TWO; 12; LITERATURE REVIEW; 12; Presentation Analysis; 12; Contrastive Analysis; 14; Purpose of contrastive analysis; 15; Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis; 15; Error Analysis; 18; Development of Error Analysis; 19; The İmportance of Learners' Errors; 21; The Critism of Error Analysis; 23; Procedure for Error Analsysis; 24; Problems in Error Analysis; 25; The Concept of Interlanguage; 26; The Birth of Interlanguage; 27; General Principle of Interlanguage; 27; The Interlanguage Theory; 28; Error Analysis and Interlanguage; 29; Types of Errors; 30; Source of Errors; 34; Error Taxonomies; 34; Errors Based on Linquistics Category; 34; Surface Strategy Taxonomy; 36; Comparative Taxonomy; 37; Communicative Effect Taxonomy; 39; CHAPTER THREE; 39; METHODOLOGY; 39; Presentation; 39; Research Design; 40; Participants; 40; Collective of Data; 41; Identification and Classification of Errors; 41; Error of morphology; 49; Syntactic Errors; 49; Interlingual Errors; 50; CHAPTER FOUR; 50; RESULT AND DISCUSSION; 50; Presentation; 50; Discussion of Results; 50; Classification of Errors into Error Types; 51; Morphological Errors; 53; Syntactic Errors; 54; Lexical errors; 55; Analyzing the Errors According To Their Sources; 64; Error Frequencies; 66; CHAPTER FIVE; 66; CONCLUSION; 66; Presentation; 66; Summary of Findings; 67; Reccomendations For Teachers and Some Suggestions; 68; Conclusion; 69; Reccomendations For Further Studies; 71; BIBLIOGRAPHY N2 - 'Abstract This study examines the common errors made in written output by İraqi learners of english language and suggests some solutions to help students recover and overcome them. All the students come from a non English speaking background and hardly communicate in english outside the school. The study was carried out at preparatory schools in Dewaniah governorate, İraq. One hundred essays collected from three schools were analysies in relation to the theory of error analysis, and the comparison of the total number of Interlingual and Intralingual erroes are given a place in this study. The study also aims to fiınd out answers to the following research questions: 1- What types of errors do İraqi learners of English make frequently in their written output and their sources? 2- Is the frequncy of Interlingual errors higher than Intralingual errors? The results of the study show the following most common errors made by Iraqi students. They were singular and plural form of the verb tenses, part of speeches, perposition, subject verb agreements, and word orders. These aspect of writing in English pose the most difficult problems to participants. Essays were written by the student of preparatory schools in dewaniah governorate, Iraq. The results of this study will help student internalize the rules of the target language and facilitat their learning process. It will also help teachers since it provides information on commom troubles encountered in language learning process which can be used in the preparation of effective teaching materials. Keywords: Error Analysis, Contrative analysis, Inter-limgual, Intra-lingual, student written materials output.' ER -