Analysis of Syntactic Errors in College English Writing

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10.2991/meici-16.2016.89How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Composition; Error analysis; Overgeneralization; English writing

Abstract

The aim of this study is to search for the best teaching method to help the college students in their writing. This paper presents an analysis of the distribution of syntactic errors in college students' composition, which are incomplete sentence structure, improper use of conjunctions, errors of coordinate relation and Chinese English. The result shows that the main reasons of the syntactic errors are attributed to the transfer of mother tongue and over generalization. The author also puts forward the teaching suggestion and the meaning of error analysis. The result suggests that the better teaching method in college students' writing is of great significance in improving college students' writing ability.

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© 2016, 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/).

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TI  - Analysis of Syntactic Errors in College English Writing
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 6th International Conference on Management, Education, Information and Control (MEICI 2016)
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