A Contrastive Analysis of Conditionals in English and Moroccan Arabic: Potential problems when learning English conditionals by Moroccan EFL learners

Learning to handle hypothetical situations in a new language is always difficult (Catford, et al., 1974). This rule holds true for Moroccan Arabic (henceforth MA) speakers learning English because grammatical devices in the two languages differ in almost all equivalent situations. For instance, whil...

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Main Authors: Boubekri Abdelhakim, Elasri Khalid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Learned Press 2019-12-01
Series:Macrolinguistics
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Online Access:http://www.macrolinguistics.com/index.php?c=msg&id=832&