INVESTIGATING IRAQI EFL LEARNERS USE OF CLEFT SENTENCES

Cleft sentences are devices in English that can help putting the focus on a particular part of a sentence and emphasize it by a variety of ways. The purpose of this research is to investigate the EFL students’ ability in producing this kind of structure. The investigation is built upon a test given to a number of subjects of EFL. The subjects, in turn, are supposedly acquainted to cleft sentence so as the investigation becomes objective and the results become reliable. Hence, verifying the research hypotheses and extracting some concluding remarks related to the problem in question are drawn by depending on the answers of the test in a statistical method then discussing them and finding weak and strong points .