The present simple form in the written work of Bangladeshi EFL learners

• Main Authors: Kayum, Muhammad Afsar, Mohammad Lotfie, Maskanah
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English; English; English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: PE English
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/78752/1/Afsar%20Kayum%20%26%20Lotfie%20%282020%29%20Slides%20for%20ICLL%202020.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/78752/13/78752%20The%20present%20simple%20form%20in%20the%20written%20work%20of%20Bangladeshi%20EFL%20learners.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/78752/2/ICLL%202020%20Programme%20and%20Abstracts.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/78752/; https://conference.iium.edu.my/ICLL2020/

In the EFL context of Bangladesh, tense is a significant and complex part of learners’ written work. The preliminary assumptions of the causes of learners’ confusions and complexity in acquiring the grammatical patterns of tense might be the cross-linguistic influence (CLI) which is quite synonymous...