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Download full textSingh, Charanjit Kaur Swaran; Singh, Amreet Kaur Jageer; Razak, Nur Qistina Abd; Ravinthar, Thilaga – English Language Teaching, 2017
The educational context in Malaysia demands students to be equipped with sound grammar so that they can produce good essays in the examination. However, despite having learnt English in primary and secondary schools, students in the higher learning institutions tend to make some grammatical errors in their writing. This study presents the…
Descriptors: Grammar, Error Patterns, English (Second Language), College Students
Zhan, Huifang – English Language Teaching, 2015
This paper investigated a large number of errors found in the topic-based writings of Chinese EFL learners, especially provided an analysis on frequent errors, to find useful pedagogical implications for English grammar teaching and writing instruction in Chinese EFL setting. Students' topic-based writings were examined by the author. The findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Sun, Xiaohui – English Language Teaching, 2014
This paper investigated a number of common ungrammatical patterns that were found in Chinese EFL leaners' free writings, in order to find useful pedagogical implications for English grammar teaching in EFL setting, especially in China. The corpus of writing data is examined by the author together with a native English teacher. Our findings suggest…
Descriptors: Grammar, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, English (Second Language)
Manokaran, Janaki; Ramalingam, Chithra; Adriana, Karen – English Language Teaching, 2013
This research is a corpus-based study of secondary and college ESL Malaysian learner's written work by identifying and classifying the types of errors in the Past Tense Auxiliary "Be". This research studied the past tense auxiliary "be", types of past tense auxiliary "be" errors and frequency of past tense auxiliary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Persuasive Discourse, Morphemes, Verbs
Tawalbeh, Ibrahim Z. – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study was conducted to investigate the influence of Colloquial Jordanian Arabic upon the use of negation and the definite article in English. The sample of the study consisted of 100 male and 100 female Jordanian 10th graders in the academic year 2011-2012. The students were randomly selected from public schools in the region of Karak-Jordan.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Watcharapunyawong, Somchai; Usaha, Siriluck – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study aimed at analyzing writing errors caused by the interference of the Thai language, regarded as the first language (L1), in three writing genres, namely narration, description, and comparison/contrast. 120 English paragraphs written by 40 second year English major students were analyzed by using Error Analysis (EA).The results revealed…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interference (Language)
