Revisiting the Linguistic Errors in the Writing of the Students Majoring in English
- DOI
- 10.2991/icest-17.2017.53How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- linguistic error, writing English
- Abstract
The basic writing skills ability of the students newly admitted to the English Department was still poor in terms of the grammatical aspect, choice and use of words, and phrase construction. This study reexamined the linguistic errors of the English Department students' writing. A total of 67 writing pa-pers were randomly selected out of 125 writings of the 6th semes-ter English Department students which were written in class in a 60-minute time. Their writings were then entered into word pro-cessing to identify the types of errors using the Linguistic Cate-gory Taxonomy. They were grouped into verb tenses, verb forms, modal auxiliary, sentence structure, word order, connectors, pas-sive construction, subject-verb agreement, determiners, number, mechanics, dictions, preposition, and unclear ideas. Of 1080 sen-tences contained in students' writings, only 299 sentences (27.69%) were grammatically correct. The most types of errors found were sentence structure (20.71%), verb tense (19.64%) and verb form (15.64%). Other categories were less than 10%. Of these errors, 62.29% are attributable to intra-lingual transfer and 37.71% to inter-lingual transfer errors. These findings become the basis for designing and developing materials and strategies for writing course at the second years. The finding of this study may provide some guideline for the teachers in writing and grammar courses.
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- © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - M. Asfah Rahman AU - Muhammad Nasiruddin Sainu AU - Indrawaty Asfah PY - 2017/09 DA - 2017/09 TI - Revisiting the Linguistic Errors in the Writing of the Students Majoring in English BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education, Science, and Technology (ICEST 2017) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 158 EP - 160 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icest-17.2017.53 DO - 10.2991/icest-17.2017.53 ID - Rahman2017/09 ER -