The Performance of Iraqi EFL Students on Nationality Words

Abstract

This paper attempts introducing a somehow detailed presentation of Nationality Words in English .These are a grammatical area that students should know its derivations, uses, groups and the syntactic features each group may reflect in these uses. The present study is of two aims .The firs is to specify the degree to which forth-year students are able to identify or recognize the different uses of Nationality Words as Nationality Adjectives referring to the nationality or style of a country, Nationality Nouns referring to the people of that country or Language Name referring to its language .Also, it is aimed to know how far the students are acquainted with producing these Nationality Words correctly (in form and grammatical feature) to express these uses.