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Moroccan Learners' English Errors: A Pilot Study.

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Meziani, Ahmed – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1984

Presents the results of a study of the errors made on essays by Moroccan students of English as a second language. The average number of grammatical errors was 10.62 per paper and the most frequent errors were related to tense, prepositions, articles, form, and concord. (SED)

Descriptors: Data Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns

Errors and the Teaching of Literature.

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Shaheen, Abdel-Rahman – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1984

Lists and discusses certain recurrent errors made by adult Arab students of English literature at the university level. The errors were produced spontaneously in free writing and not through mechanical drills or isolated occurrences of sentences, so they reflect the learner's competence in English. (SED)

Descriptors: Arabic, English (Second Language), English Literature, Error Analysis (Language)