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    The Influence of french lexical borrowing on the quality of english written productions of Algerian EFL students at Larbi Ben M’hidi University Oum El Bouaghi
    (University Of Oum El Bouaghi, 2019) Zinai, Kenza; Saidi, Rafika; Boudersa, Nassira
    A good deal of algerian EFL students face several problems in english writing,especially at the level of lexis. certain lexical problems are mainly due to the interfirence of the french language in the english writing of these students.EFL students borrow lexical words from french and use them in their writing due to the french lexical interfirence algerian EFL students tend to commit lexical errors in their english writing.on the basis of this ,we hypothesized that prior knwledge of french lexis is one of main sources of lexical errors in algerian EFL students english writing. we also hypothesized that if algerian EFL students use lexical borrowing from french,this will negatively inflluence the quality of their english written productions,to conduct the research investigation a questionnaire was deseigned and administered to ten teachers of written expression at the departement of english university of larbi ben m hidi in the acadimic year 2018-2019 the analysis of the questionnaire showed that lexical interfirence from french is one of the main reasons for algerian EFL students lexical errors in english writing in light of this, the first research hypothesis was confirmed . the analysis of the results showed also that the use of borrowing from the french language influences negatively the quality of EFL students english texts in light of this, the second reasrch hypothesis was also comfirmed.