A study of the interlanguage of some Arabic students of English

Abstract

In this study, the contrastive analysis method is used to investigate the lnterlanguage (IL) developmental sequences of the acquisition of some aspects of English by Arabic-speaking learners. The learners, whose language provides the corpus of data, are all learning English through specialised English Second Language (ESL) instruction and have had varying degrees of exposure to English in a host-language environment. An analysis of the date revealed some interesting conclusions.