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    A Corpus based study on the common grammatical errors in pupils written paragraphs: the case of second year secondary school pupils at Ali Ben Deda secondary school in Sedrata “Souk Ahras”
    (University of Oum El Bouaghi, 2023) Bouchafi, Fedia; Mansouri, Keltoum
    He writing skill is crucial for an effective communication. However, mastering it is not an easy task for many Algerian EFL learners. It needs enough effort and practice when using the different language aspects. In this respect, the aim of this study is to investigate the extent to which second-year secondary school pupils of the foreign languages stream at Ali Ben Deda secondary school in Sedrata, make grammatical errors in their paragraph writing during the academic year 2022/2023, as well as to explore the most common types of grammatical errors among them. To achieve the underlined objectives of the current study, the mixed-method approach is used in analysing a corpus of twenty-five (25) exam written paragraph samples. The findings of the corpus analysis showed that secondary school pupils made fourteen (14) types of grammatical errors in their paragraph writing with (289) occurrences, namely punctuation, spelling, capitalization, articles, plurality, verb tense and form, pronouns, subject-verb disagreement, fragments, prepositions, passive voice and some other errors including adjectives, conjunctions, and nouns. This significant number of errors reveals that the writing skill is quite challenging for secondary school pupils. Therefore, it is recommended that Algerian EFL teachers, learners and syllabus designers should consider this issue in order to reduce it in the pupils' future writings.