Teaching English Articles by Learners" Proficiency Levels

Teaching English Articles by Learners" Proficiency Levels

  English article has been considered as one of the most difficult areas to learn among ESL/EFL students. The current paper reviews English learners" article error patterns as well as pedagogy in order to teach English articles and to minimize learning difficulties on English articles. Different pedagogy for English articles on the basis of learners" proficiency levels are suggested as each proficiency level student shows a different error tendency; beginning level language learners used the zero article with the most facility while intermediate level language learners used the definite article the most accurately. However, studies about high advanced level learners" error patterns present that these high accuracy rates among beginning level students might be a result of students" plain guessing. Considering these error patterns, pedagogy for advanced level is also suggested.