Students' use of Mechanics of Language

This study was an attempt to find out the main problems that Kurdish EFL learners commonly face in using mechanics of writing correctly along with having an eye on some related grammatical points considered in this study. The study also explored the Kurdish teachers' beliefs and thinking in the different related domains which were explained in details in previous sections. The study revealed the severe difficulty of Kurdish students in implementing the correct forms of mechanics of writing and more specifically in the correct use of punctuation, paragraphing, capitalization, and verb tense as students showed the most frequent errors in those elements of writing mechanics. However generally female students showed better performance in their writings, compared to male students. These findings, along with the sources of errors which were interpreted from the results that is, the partial knowledge or more possibly lack of efficient knowledge toward these rules of writing mechanics are the indicators of serious need of Kurd students to learn and practice those elements of writing mechanics while also work on grammatical points in order to improve their writing skills.