PASSIVIZATION PROBLEMS IN THE PERFORMANCE OF KURDISH EFL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

This study deals with the problems of passivization that third year students of English departments at the college level face. It is an attempt to identify the difficult areas and suggest remedial steps to overcome them. The population of the study is third year college students of the English departments of College of Languages and College of Basic Education at Salahaddin university-Erbil. A test ,which covers the whole tenses of English language, is administered to the sample of the population to find out to what extent the college students face difficulties in both recognition and production of passive sentences. The results show that the college students face difficulties in recognizing and producing passive sentences, and the students errors are due to the factors of interlanguage, intralanguage and context of learning.