Error Analysis of Jordanian First - Year University Students’ English Language Writing at Arab Open University – Case Study

Al-husban, Naima

doi:10.12785/ijpi/060103

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“…Likewise, in spoken English, undergraduate Thai learners produced errors the most of omission type, accounted for more than half of the total errors. In the same way, Al-husban (2018) found that omission and addition were the most two frequent errors commited by Jordanian first-year university students in paragraph writing. Lastly, finding on Saad's and Sawalmeh's study (2014) also revealed that omission accounted for the majority of errors produced by L2 Malaysian learners in role play presentations.…”

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“…In this case, grammatical knowledge is inevitably possessed by the writer; otherwise, a writing production can result in communication problem to its readers. In unveiling their research finding pertaining to English essay of comparison and contrast, Karim, et al (2005, in Al-husban, 2018 noted that the students' errors on the usage of verbs lead to miscommunication. That is to say, "Language without grammar would be chaotic and cause the same communication problem, such as grammatical errors in writing and Jurnal Serambi Ilmu: p-ISSN 1693-4849, e-ISSN 2549-2306 Journal of Scientific Information and Educational Creativity speaking" (Batstone, 1994).…”

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Surface Strategy Taxonomy on Foreign Language Writing: A Study on Verb Tense Usage

Rusmiati

2019

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This study is aimed at analyzing errors of verb tense usage found in the learners’ writing production. The second semester students of English Department, STAIN Gajah Putih Takengon enrolled in Writing II course were taken as the participants in this investigation. Eight narrative paragraphs were scrutinized closely to detect errors pertaining to verb tense. In this case, a classification of errors proposed by Dulay, Burt, and Krashen (1982 in Ellis and Barkhuizen, 2005) called Surface Strategy Taxonomy is applied. It comprises four sorts of errors: addition, omission, misformation, and misordering. The finding reveals that the learners’ errors encompass three types of four aforementioned above, i.e. addition, omission, and misformation. Among those, misformation is found to be the most prevalent type commited by the learners, as many as 62 errors making up 72.94 % of all. It was subsequently followed by omission and addition which were 13 errors (15.29 %) and 10 errors (11.77 %) successively. Whereas misordering was not identified among the learners’ errors on paragraph composition. Eventually, a pedagogical implication as a result of this research was made. English instructors are expected to accentuate more on likely-to-produce-errors items to the learners prior to composing a paragraph.

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Section: Journal Of Scientific Information and Educational Creativitymentioning

confidence: 66%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Surface Strategy Taxonomy on Foreign Language Writing: A Study on Verb Tense Usage

Rusmiati

2019

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“…A considerable number of studies have been carried out on error analysis in writing (Miko, 2018;Hasan and Munandar, 2018;Al-husban, 2017;Suwastini and Yukti, 2017;Tiarina, 2017;Suhono, 2016;Alfiyani, 2013;Limengka and Kuntjara, much as possible and they should be encouraged to use it. Similarly, Al-husban (2017) conducted a research on university first year students in Jordan to analyse their errors in writing in English and the research demonstrated that categories of errors was omission, addition, misformation and misordering, respectively with respect to their frequency.…”

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Analysis of Higher Education Students’ Errors in English Writing Tasks

Özkayran

Yilmaz

2020

ALLS

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The aim of this study is to analyse the errors of higher education students in English writing tasks. In the study, the paragraphs in the exam papers of 57 preparatory class students, studying at a state university in Turkey in 2017-2018 academic year, were analysed. The study was conducted using qualitative research method. Case study was used in the research. Document analysis was used to collect data. The collected data were analysed in line with Surface Strategy Taxonomy and errors were identified and classified. As a result of the error analysis process, it was observed that the students made a total of 381 errors on 57 exam papers; 192 of them were misformation errors, 113 were omission errors, 65 were addition errors and only 11 were misordering errors. Misformation was the most frequent error among the students with a percentage of 50.39. In addition, the percentage of omission errors was 29.66%, that of addition errors was 17.06% and misordering errors was 2.89%. The professionals teaching English as a foreign language should focus more on prepositions, verb “to be”, spelling, articles, singular/plural forms of nouns, word formation, tenses, word choice and subject-verb agreement, which were the most problematic areas of language listed under the four main categories by developing efficient instructional techniques and materials. They should also respect learners’ errors and set up a positive atmosphere where learners can easily express themselves in the target language without the fear of committing errors.INTRODUCTIONThere are lots of languages in the world and some of them have come to the fore due to the fact that they are spoken by millions and even billions of people. People generally learn the language spoken where they are born, however; the developments in the fields such as communication, transportation, tourism and trade forced people to learn the languages that they didn’t need to learn in the past. English is the most popular one of those languages and for some it is the lingua franca (Modiano, 2004; Becker and Kluge, 2014) of our age.Millions of people in the world speak English as their mother tongue while others must learn it as a second (ESL) or foreign language (EFL). Learning English as second or foreign language differs with respect to learners’ attitudes towards English and the people who speak it as their native language, exposure to English, their sources of motivation and so on. The main focus of this study is learning English as a foreign language as English is not the primary language in the country where the study was carried out.A considerable

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“…Errors happened because the learner is lack of knowledge of the target language and occurred consistently and systematically (Gayo & Widodo, 2018). Errors are caused by lacking knowledge of the language system and cannot be corrected by the learner -self (Al-husban, 2018). In addition, language errors can be caused by interlingual interference and intralingual interference.…”

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Lexical Errors in English Students' Writing

Anggreni

Bochari

2021

Pioneer. J. Lang. Lit

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This research analyzed lexical erros in writing of English students and focused on three types of errors; they were errors in literal translation, errors of word formation, and errors in word choice. This research aimed to explore the most frequent errors and the factors of errors made by English students. The design of this research was qualitative in which the data were colleted by using document in the form of students’ writings and interview. The informants of the research were thirty students majoring in English study program at Tadulako University. The result of this research showed that the most frequent errors made were in word choice and followed by errors in literal translation and errors in word formation. The factors causing the errors were students’ inability to consider the context of the topics when writing. They only focused on using dictionary, Google translate, or simply the words that they had in mind to express ideas in their writing. The students also never used words that were related to the topic in their daily interaction.

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Error Analysis of Jordanian First - Year University Students’ English Language Writing at Arab Open University – Case Study

Cited by 8 publications

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Surface Strategy Taxonomy on Foreign Language Writing: A Study on Verb Tense Usage

Surface Strategy Taxonomy on Foreign Language Writing: A Study on Verb Tense Usage

Analysis of Higher Education Students’ Errors in English Writing Tasks

Lexical Errors in English Students' Writing

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