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Cheng, Shuk Ling – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
This paper examines the English grammatical errors and their patterns in the written assignments of a General Education course at City University of Hong Kong. Subjects are 60 local and non-local (exchange) undergraduate students who are all L2 learners with diversified education and disciplinary background (i. e. their major of study) which are…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Grammar
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Arifi Waked; Muhammad W. Ashraf; Hanadi AbdelSalam; Khadija El Alaoui; Maura Pilotti – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2024
Questions exist as to whether AI tools, such as ChatGPT, can aid learning. This study examined whether in-class exercises involving error detection in text generated by ChatGPT can aid students' foreign language writing. Participants were Arabic-English speakers who were classified as ranging from modest to competent English users according to…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Allen, Laura; Crossley, Scott; Kyle, Kris; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2014
The current study examined relationships between expert human judgments of text quality and grammar and mechanical errors in student writing. A corpus of essays (N = 100) written by high school students in the W-Pal system was collected, coded for grammar and mechanical errors, and scored by expert human raters. Results revealed weak relations…
Descriptors: Grammar, Writing Evaluation, Writing Instruction, Essays
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Fredholm, Kent – Research-publishing.net, 2014
The use of online translation (OT) is increasing as more pupils receive laptops from their schools. This study investigates OT use in two groups of Swedish pupils (ages 17-18) studying Spanish as an L3: one group (A) having free Internet access and the spelling and grammar checker of Microsoft Word, the other group (B) using printed dictionaries…
Descriptors: Translation, Morphology (Languages), Accuracy, Questionnaires
Monagle, E. Brette – 1981
The use of error pattern analysis can reduce the time and money spent on editing and correcting manuscripts. What is required is noting, classifying, and keeping a frequency count of errors. First an editor should take a typical page of writing and circle each error. After the editor has done a sufficiently large number of pages to identify an…
Descriptors: Editing, Efficiency, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Zhao, Heping – 1992
Victor Raskin's taxonomy of knowledge, based on semantics theory, is adapted and applied to composition in English as a Second Language (ESL). Raskin's classification of knowledge as linguistic and encyclopedic is converted to a continuum from textual to extra-contextual, with contextual knowledge situated between the two. Textual knowledge is…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Linguistic Theory
Davidson, Fred – 1984
Present composition teaching and testing techniques do not formally capture student improvement across essays. Contract learning, a procedure in which student essays are error-analyzed for repeated mistakes, can do so. Correction of those repetitions becomes a set of goals on a written contract signed by the teacher and student, and the student…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Performance Contracts
Richmond, Kent C. – 1984
Students of English as a second language (ESL) often come to the classroom with little or no experience in writing in any language and with inaccurate assumptions about writing. Rather than correct these assumptions, teachers often seem to unwittingly reinforce them, actually inducing errors into their students' work. Teacher-induced errors occur…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Second Language Instruction
Silva, Clare M. – 1977
Writing samples of 97 students in remedial writing classes were analyzed to determine error patterns in writing mechanics and the predominance of specific errors. Students were grouped according to individual student profiles and error patterns which indicated additional similarities and differences among individuals. Analysis indicated that most…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Error Patterns, Individualized Instruction
Faingold, Eduardo D. – 1997
An exercise in the evaluation of errors in Spanish (second language) composition is reported. The exercise, based on J. M. Hendrickson's "discovery" approach to learning, concerned correction of three error types: lexicon; grammar; and spelling. Subjects were 13 native English-speaking university students in a Spanish language program. In the…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Film Criticism, Grammar
Edwards, Barbara Hall – 1988
A pilot study concerning the range of writing skills of intermediate students of English as a second language (ESL) is reported. The study identified the clause structures and relative low-order linguistic skills in the writing samples of 25 college students in this group. The method of evaluation of writing samples was a model of conformity to…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Students, English (Second Language), Error Patterns
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Thiesmeyer, John – 1984
Writing problems common among many college students are "phrasal" errors such as limited vocabulary, inability to distinguish standard usage from slang or jargon, a tendency to frame thoughts in cliches, a peppering of meaningless intensifiers, and a gift for redundancy and wordiness. To help correct these problems, a text-checking system called…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Editing, Error Patterns, Feedback
Krug, Clara – 1981
Based on the premise that teaching basic writing involves first understanding what tends to go wrong when students write, a computer assisted system of error prediction and analysis was designed to improve college students' writing skills in both English and French. Students were to complete a sequenced series of writing assignments first in…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Testing, English, Error Analysis (Language)
Zamel, Vivian – 1983
It is important that teachers help students to realize that writing is not simply a product, or a means to an end, but an exploratory, cyclical process. Research has shown that skilled writers conceptualize the effect of their writing as a whole, as a generative process, whereas unskilled writers are distracted by surface-level features and are…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Diaries, English (Second Language), Error Patterns
Mitchell, Felicia – Online Submission, 2005
The purpose of this presentation is to encourage college teachers of writing, inside and outside Appalachia, to look at dialect-based errors in a more expansive way even as they help students to make better choices about standard usage. The discussion, which is presented within the context of a socio-cultural perspective on bias in perceptions of…
Descriptors: North American English, Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition, Writing Instruction
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