The Effect Of Interlingual Interference On The Use Of Clausal Coordination And Subordination In Efl Writing The Case Of Third Year “licence” Efl Students At Kasdi Merbah University -ouargla-

Résumé: The current study aims at investigating the effect of interlingual interference on the use of coordination and subordination at clausal level in the EFL writing of third year “Licence” students at Kasdi Merbah University in Ouargla via applying error analysis as a technique. A descriptive analytic approach is opted for a quantitative- qualitative analysis of data. The latter are obtained from a writing test of an argumentative essay. Thirty-two out of 245 third year “Licence” students of English at Kasdi Merbah University in Ouargla were selected as a sample. The analysis was based on counting the explicit signals of subordination and coordination. Then, types and sources of errors of subordination and coordination were identified. The results revealed that EFL third year “Licence” students overuse coordination and underuse subordination. Besides, omission and addition are the frequent errors committed by EFL third year “Licence” students when they write. Also, interlingual transfer is the major source of errors. Language interference prevents students to from an appropriate use for subordination and coordination in their L2 writing. On the basis of these results a number of recommendations and writing activities have been proposed.

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