Interlanguage Syntax of the Noun Phrase in English

This book aims at introducing the English as a foreign language researcher, in particular, to the area of the noun phrase. The book examines the interlanguage syntax of the closed system elements that occur before and/or after the noun head. It demonstrates that a great deal of students' errors could be explained by over-generalization and interference from students' mother tongue, though some other errors challenge explanations offered by contrastive analysis of English and Arabic.

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Mohamed Hmouma is the director of studies and examination coordinator at Abu-Isa Faculty of Education. He has his specification in ELT with background in a range of subjects. For more than a decade he has been teaching English to non-natives and has gained a first-hand experience on the field of foreign language instruction and action research.