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Much ofthe L2 acquisition literature seems to agree that L2 learners are affected, one way or another, by their first language (L1) . However, the debatable and controversial issue is whether there are other factors that affect article use, independent of potential L1 effects. The present study examines whether the presence or absence of adjectives in noun phrases influences article choice among Saudi Arabic learners of English. Both Arabic and English have articles, but Arabic adjectives are different from English adjectives to the extent that they agree with nouns in definiteness, case and gender. The study was conducted with 24 L1 Saudi Arabic speakers and 6 native English speakers. A 42-item fill-in-the-blanks task was administered. The results showed that a) native speakers of English outperformed L2 Arabic speakers in all contexts except indefinite plural contexts not modified by adjectives; and b) L2 Arabic speakers were more accurate in indefinite contexts that were not modified by adjectives than those that were. These findings show that L1 Arabic speakers are sensitive to the presence or absence of adjectives in noun phrases. |\n| Article history\u003Cbr>Received: April 12, 2021\u003Cbr>Accepted: June 02, 2021\u003Cbr>Published: August 31, 2021\u003Cbr>Volume: 12 Issue: 4\u003Cbr>Advance access: July 2021 |  |\n| Conflicts of interest: None\u003Cbr>Funding: None |  |\n| Key words:\u003Cbr>Adjectives, Arabic, Acquisition, Articles, Second Language |  |\n\nINTRODUCTION  \nL2 learners’ difficulties with the acquisition of English articles have been well-documented by many researchers (e.g., Bohnacker, 1997; Cho & Slabakova, 2014; Huebner, 1983; Thomas, 1989) . Researchers’ views vary regarding factors that affect successful L2 acquisition of English articles (Abudalbuh, 2016; Burns & Soja, 1997). They also differ concerning the types of errors that L2 learners of English make. There are two types of errors in using English articles (Trenkic, 2009): a) omission; and b) substitution. Omission errors can be attributed to the absence of articles in the L1 of L2 learners (such as the Japanese and Korean languages), whereas substitution errors are a result of difficulties in setting the semantic parameter at the correct value. Both types of errors can be attributed to the complex nature of English articles and/or to L1 transfer effects. Researchers varied with regard to their diagnoses of these errors (see Danon, 2010; Fraurud, 1990; Robertson, 2000; Zegarac, 2004) . However, very few studies have addressed one often overlooked factor that may be responsible for errors in the use of English articles. This is the presence or absence of adjectives before the target nouns (e.g. Goad & White, 2004; Sharma, 2005; Trenkic, 2002, 2007, 2009) . Attributive adjectives in Arabic resemble nouns in ‘number, gender, definiteness and case’  \n(Samy & Samy, 2014: 122), which is not the case in English. To the best of my knowledge, none of the Arabic-based article studies have addressed the issue of adjectives. This study therefore examines whether the presence or absence of adjectives influences L1 Saudi Arabic speakers’ article use. Investigating this will provide us with deeper insight into the potential effects of adjectives on article use.  \nThe research questions were as follows:  \n1. Do L1 Saudi Arabic speakers use articles similarly to native speakers?  \n2. 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