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Mehat, Siti Zawani; Ismail, Lilliati – Asian Journal of University Education, 2021
Errors, either in writing or speaking, are common in second language production. Researchers have long been investigating English as Second Language (ESL) learners' errors because they may produce different kinds of errors than native speakers. The purpose of this study was to identify errors made by adult ESL learners and to examine the L1…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
Crompton, Peter – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2005
This paper analyses the use of the word "where" in texts written by Malay-speaking learners of English. Data from a learner corpus is compared with data from two corpora of academic writing by native English-speaker writers. Considerable over-use of "where" is found: this is explained as a consequence of various patterns of misuse of "where" and…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Error Analysis (Language), English (Second Language)