EFL Students Errors in Differentiating Between Adjectives and Nouns in Usage

Abstract

This study studies English as a foreign language students errors in differentiating between adjectives and nouns in usage . It hypothesized four hypotheses the first hypothesized is that students of EFL at SUST are not aware about adjectives and nouns , the second hypothesized students of EFL at Sudan University of Science & Technology use adjectives and nouns incorrectly from a morphological point ,the third hypothesized students of EFL at Sudan University of Science and Technology can’t derive an adjective from a noun and the opposite, and the last hypothesized , there is no a significant difference between the students of first and third year in their ability to differentiate between adjectives and nouns . To confirm or reject the hypotheses of the study , the researcher used one tool the test which designed to the students of 1st and 3rd levels . The sample of this study is random; fifty students divided into two groups ( A ) twenty five students from first year and ( B ) also twenty five students from third year all of them students at SUST . The numerical data collected from these subjects were statistically analyzed and the results were discussed . The results of the study confirm that students of EFL at Sudan University of Science and Technology can’t derive an adjective from a noun and the opposite . Moreover, the results of the study confirm that there is a significant difference between the students of first and third year in their ability to differentiate between adjectives and nouns. Whereas ,the results of the study reject the first and second hypotheses , the findings show that the students of EFL at SUST are aware about adjectives and nouns ,and they use adjectives and nouns correctly from a morphological point for both groups . The research findings are : 1. Students of EFL at SUST are aware of adjectives and nouns . 2. Students of EFL at Sudan University of Science & Technology use adjectives and nouns correctly from a morphological point . 3. Students of EFL at Sudan University of Science and Technology can’t derive an adjective from a noun and the opposite . 4 . There is no a significant difference between the students of first and third year in their ability to differentiate between adjectives and nouns , although ,they have been studying English language for eight or ten years