The Impact of Arabic and French Languages on The Skill of Writing in English (Fourth-Year Middle School Learners at Ghazaouet and Beni Snous)

Abstract

This research work attempts to treat the impact of Arabic and French languages on the skill of writing in English, by referring to the linguistic background knowledge that pupils of fourth-year middle school possess in Arabic, French and English. The researchers raised the problematic that Algerian learners of English are facing two dimensional problems, which are: transfer from Arabic and French in addition to the influence of Algerian dialect. To give solution to these problematic, fourty-nine pupils and five teachers from two middle schools at Ghazaouet and Beni snous were involved in this research work. Teachers were given a semi-guided questionnaire to answer, whereas pupils were given a language proficiency test to answer. The researchers came up with results that emphasize on gathering efforts of both teachers and syllabus designers for the sake of improving pupils’ writing skill in English language by coordinating their capacities , that suits pupils’ requirements.