4. Conclusion:

B1 learners of English in Syria evidently transfer structures and lexical items of their mother tongue while they are trying to fill in the gaps of their limited knowledge of their EFL. Hence, they commit many errors until they try to enhance their syntactic and semantic competence of their L2.

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