Error Analysis of Students in Teaching and Learning of the Prepositions (to) and (for)

Abstract

The test includes 50 items and covered 50 students too, 20 items are filled in 'for'' and 30 items are filled in '' to' 'The aim of the current paper is to analyze and find the problematic area in which learners and students face difficulty in suing them, so by doing the test given to the third – year students. The prepositions '' To and For '' are used in many different positions. These two prepositions belong to the goal class of Prepositions and thus serve as heads of prepositional phrases that indicate destination of motion. The results of the test can be summarized in the following paragraphs.

The preposition ''to'' is in its main meaning most related with these kinds of objects, and a huge number of nouns fall into this category.This part is the most extensive. Therefore, it can be divided into two subparts; the first focuses on motion constructions as a whole and analyzed them from a syntactic as well as a semantico-pragmatic point of view. The second subpart focused on the prepositional phrases alone. Thus, the current study has shown the following findings:

1. A) Both the prepositions '' for '' and '' to'' form the problem and confusion among students to
2. B) The preposition '' for '' and '' to'' are almost similar in use in Arabic and English. Therefore, the students see them as the same. Thus, in this case learners should not think in Arabic language when they want to use them.
3. C) Both prepositions should be memorized by learners and students in some cases due to having items out of the certain rule
4. D) Because the learners and students seem unhappy with structure and some abnormal rules they made mistakes, so they need to practise more in different context.
5. E) Because of many uses of '' to'', students make mistakes, so they must keep them as it exist in the grammar books