EFFECTS OF TECHENICAL ERRORS ON EFL STUDENTS WRITING

Abstract

The aim of this study to investigate "the mechanical errors" which the EFL students at “Alnokhpa secondary school” make in their writing. To this end ,the researcher administered attest were (30) secondary school students chosen from “Alnokhpa school for girls”. The analysis was done qualitatively to asses students problems in punctuation, capitalization and spelling. The results revealed that the most mechanical errors among the students of secondary level have considerable problems in the use of mechanics as: they overuse the comma at the expense of the period , the incorrect use of the capital letter, they commit spelling errors and the misuse of semicolon respectively. In the light of the findings, the researcher recommended that all the teachers should overstress the importance of punctuation marks, capitalization, and spelling in the written and the oral communication courses.