ABSTRACT
Errors and their correction are considered an integral part of learning process. Learners’ errors can be attributed to various factors, such as interlingual influence from the first language to the second language, as well as intralingual influences. This chapter highlights selected typical errors of Arabic prepositions by some non-native speakers of Arabic. It provides examples of errors of students from a corpus of two hundred written essays containing examples which were collected over a period of three years from students studying Arabic with modern languages. Learners of Arabic often make errors when using prepositions, whose use is considered as one of the most confusing aspects of language acquisition in general. Most of the preposition errors are due to interference from the mother tongue. The chapter highlights some of the errors made by students and provides correct versions and translations of the examples. The errors made by these students are divided into three different categories: deletion, substitution or addition of prepositions.
