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Item Mal-Production Of Inflectional Morphemes: Causes And Remedial Actions(2009) Abdelmagied Elhadi ElameenAbstract English The present study investigates the inflectional morphemes in English Language, with regards to the allomorphs of the plural morpheme for English nouns and the allomorphs of the past tense morpheme for English verbs. The aim of the study is to outline and illustrate the problematic areas, which include spelling and pronunciation mistakes when using these allomorphs. Towards this end, the study explains how Sudanese EFL learners make mistakes when forming these allomorphs. From these facts problems discovered and remedial actions are suggested. To tackle the problem of this research, the researcher has adopted the analytical and error analysis approaches. The research is organized in five chapters. Chapter one introduces the study and outlines the plan of the research. Chapter two provides a theoretical background for the field of linguistics in general. Nevertheless, the center of attention in this chapter is to study the sphere of morphology. Furthermore the focus will be Inflectional morphemes and their different types. The chapter is concluded with a review for some of the previous studies. Chapter three concerns the methodology adopted in this research. Data is obtained from respondents through a test. -iv- This data was then analyzed, in chapter four, using statistics terms and descriptive interpretations. The analysis and discussion of results includes the recognition of weaknesses and the underlying causes. Moreover, the discussion is extended to include the examination of common mistakes. The findings of this study reflected some of the problems that encounter Sudanese EFL when dealing with the spelling and pronunciation of English inflectional morphemes. Findings also illustrated that errors are related to how and what have been taught, that is, teaching technique and process has not been adequate. The findings also showed that irregular nouns and verbs are the difficult ones for EFL learners; because they don’t conform to any given rule, in addition to that, students did not have enough practice. Finally chapter five provides some recommendations one of them is that Sudanese EFL learners are to be more exposed to the Target Language(TL) so as to reduce the Mother Language (ML) interference in learning and teaching processes. Another suggestion is to modify and intensify the course of morphology in this syllabus. This research is concluded with some suggestions for further researches. -