The Factors that lead tertiary level students to perform badly in grammar

Abstract

This paper aims at describing the performance of the students in English grammar tenses . The researcher prepares a written test so as to investigate the performance of ElimamElmahdi University students who study English language as specific subject in year 2014 – 2015 . The researcher selects 44 students , male and female as a sample for the study , all of them studing level two . The researcher distributes the written test randomly to the students and asks them to answer the questions and mention that their works will be secretly for purpose of the study . The researcher hypothesizes that the students of ElimamElmahdi University have got problems in their written performance and this hypothesis confined after the analysis of the written test which analyzed by SPSS . then the researcher recommends the teachers and students to be aware of performance in grammar , and invites the other researchers to continue in searching in this field so as to share in solving the problems and cover the areas which are not covered .