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Meziani, Ahmed – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1978
A brief analysis of the complex English non-past tense contrasted with the simple Moroccan-Arab non-past. In English the non-past is represented by many forms; in Moroccan-Arabic it is represented by few forms. This fact is the cause of confusion to the Moroccan learner of English. (AMH)
Descriptors: Arabic, English, English (Second Language), Interference (Language)