Even though Albanian students studying English as a foreign language attain a high proficiency in the language, they still end up using the referential ‘it’ and ‘there” incorrectly. Most of these errors are inter-language errors and should be attributable...
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Even though Albanian students studying English as a foreign language attain a high proficiency in the language, they still end up using the referential ‘it’ and ‘there” incorrectly. Most of these errors are inter-language errors and should be attributable to the L1 (first language) rather than the target language (L2). Given the above, almost all studies conducted in other languages have laid the blame so far on the language structure of their respective first languages (L1). Despite the large number of studies in other languages, there has not been any comprehensive studies to date in Albanian with regard to causes of errors with non-referential ‘it’ and ‘there’. Almost all studies in Albanian have scratched the surface of such non-referential subjects ‘it’ and ‘there’ by providing only examples of correct usage by failing to resort to the comparative approach between the grammatical structures of both languages and stopping short of providing any teaching suggestions that would help
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