Essays about: "Linguistic error analysis"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words Linguistic error analysis.
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1. Negative Transfer from Arabic as a Major Reason for the Errors Made by Arabic Learners in their Written Production in English as a Second Language
University essay from Södertörns högskola/EngelskaAbstract : The purpose of this research is to investigate the influence of negative transfer from Arabic as the most dominant influential factor among other possible factors that negatively affect Arabic learners resulting in them making errors in their written production in English as a second language. To perform this investigation, the author has collected and analysed 15 texts written by Arabic students enrolled in Grades 7, 8, and 9 of a lower secondary school. READ MORE
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2. English Errors in Swedish Upper Secondary School : A study of grammatical errors and errors as a result of transfer, produced by Swedish Upper secondary students
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : This is a study that employs error analysis to investigate written production in English, by Swedish upper secondary learners of English, in order to determine which linguistic errors most commonly occur amongst this group, and to compare the results between first-year students and third-year students for a possible indication of which error types continue to occur throughout upper secondary school. The error categories included in this study are grammatical errors and errors as a result of transfer. READ MORE
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3. An Error Analysis of Subject-Verb Agreement by Swedish Learners of English : Corpus-Based Study of the Difficulties Surrounding Subject-Verb Agreement for Swedish Students
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : This study investigates subject-verb agreement errors produced by students in upper secondary school in Sweden. The research was conducted in an attempt to understand why students acquiring English as their L2 struggle with learning subject-verb agreement, and to categorize the grammatical environments which cause students to produce errors related to subject-verb agreement. READ MORE
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4. Correlations Between Textual Features and Grades on the Swedish National Exam in English : A Coh-Metrix Analysis
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Researchers and educators do not always have a clear idea about how evaluators actually go about assessing student texts. On the one hand, grading criteria are often vague and differ across locations and age groups. READ MORE
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5. SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT IN L2 LEARNER LANGUAGE A study of compulsory school English in a Swedish context
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : Abstract: learners of English produce subject-verb agreement errors in written productions. The study uses Error Analysis in order to collect, identify, describe, and finally, explain the occuring errors. READ MORE
