Difficulty in the using of English Articles between Libyan EFL learners at Tobruk University

Abstract

During the academic year 2021/2022, the current study aims to investigate errors made by EFL learners at the English Department, Faculty of Art / Tobruk University when utilizing English articles (a, an, and the) .The data were collected in the form of a 30 gap-fill task from 43 sophomores Libyan learners of English. The findings demonstrated that participants continue to make numerous errors while utilizing English articles, which might be attributed to a variety of factors, including discrepancies in article usage between the students' native tongue and the target language. The Researcher suggests that more focus be made on the differences in article usage between the two languages, which could help students improve their English language usage