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Demirel, Elif Tokdemir – English Language Teaching, 2017
The present study aims to explore Turkish EFL students' major writing difficulties by analyzing the frequent writing errors in academic essays. Accordingly, the study examined errors in a corpus of 150 academic essays written by Turkish EFL students studying at the Department of English Language and Literature at a public university in Turkey. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Error Correction, Error Analysis (Language), English (Second Language)
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Sermsook, Kanyakorn; Liamnimit, Jiraporn; Pochakorn, Rattaneekorn – English Language Teaching, 2017
The purposes of the present study were to examine the language errors in a writing of English major students in a Thai university and to explore the sources of the errors. This study focused mainly on sentences because the researcher found that errors in Thai EFL students' sentence construction may lead to miscommunication. 104 pieces of writing…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Sentences, English (Second Language)
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Alanazi, Mona Saleh – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2017
The last four decades have observed a renewed research interest in the area of error analysis. It has been the focus of attention, and subject of debate, among scholars particularly those of second-language acquisition. Scholars in this area of study hold the unanimous view that errors are an integral and unavoidable feature of second-language…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Writing Achievement, Error Analysis (Language), English (Second Language)
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Arora, Shweta; Joshi, Kavita A.; Koshy, Sonymol; Tewari, Deeksha – English Language Teaching, 2017
English being a global language has become a vital element in all walks of life. The feelers of this language have left no sphere unmarked with its significance. Despite such a colossal tide for gaining command over the language it was found that the conventional pattern of teaching English language could not reap desired results. A comprehensive…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation, Communication Skills