Exploratory study in students on mechanics of writing

Abstract

This study aimed to show the errors made by learners in male and female Kurdish EFL learners (English as a Foreign Language), as well as to examine the kind and frequency of frequent faults in Kurdish EFL learners while taking proper writing mechanics into consideration. In this sense, a composition test served as the study's instrument, and the participants' mistakes were examined. To further guarantee the validity of the tool and the outcomes, the inter-rater reliability was calculated. Names of writing skills was included in the checklist that the researchers created and utilized as a framework for fixing and evaluating the mistakes made by students to ensure the validity and reliability of the results. The study showed that capitalization (61%), punctuation (88%), and paragraphing (87%), in general, are the main areas of difficulty and the most common mistakes made by Kurdish pupils. Nonetheless, it was discovered that the female learners had performed better.