Investigating Iraqi EFL learners' Use Of English Syntactic Structures

This research is devoted to study the Iraqi EFL  learners’  awareness  of certain syntactic structures in standard English . It aims  at theoretically  investigating  certain  types  of English syntactic structures  and  practically  studying  the  Iraqi  EFL  learners'  performance in  dealing  with syntactic structures  by  means  of  a  specialized  test  designed  for  this  purpose .     The present  study falls into four chapters. The first chapter includes general definitions of  syntax  and  word order  from scholars’ and linguists’ points of view. The second chapter deals with the main syntactic  forms  in modern Standard English  with  reference to their  main types. Chapter three includes the test which is made for the students from the non-departmental post graduate studentsin the College of Education to measure their total performance at the recognition and production levels with a discussion of the main types of errors which are committed by them. The fourth chapter summarizes the main conclusions and findings of the present study.