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Dedushaj, Dorentina – Online Submission, 2022
This study focuses on the writing errors of Albanian and Montenegrin high school EFL students. The research will focus on identifying the EFL students' writing errors and investigating the students' perception regarding their exposure to English Language writing. The instruments used for the collection of the data were a questionnaire and an essay…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Omongos, Mardy C.; Villarin, Sydney Jay B. – Online Submission, 2023
This study analyzed semantic errors in the written compositions of first-year BSEd English students. 86 participants were asked to write a narrative essay and provide feedback on their writing difficulties and language learning needs. The collected data were statistically analyzed. Semantic errors were categorized into 8 types: code-switching,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Code Switching (Language), Spelling, Learning Readiness
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Hosseinpur, Rasoul Mohammad; Pour, Hossein Hosseini – TESL-EJ, 2022
A compelling body of evidence suggests that EFL students have problem with logical connectors' appropriate use in writing. This study explored Iranian EFL students' adversative connectors use in their essay writing course. To this end, a Learner Corpus of 60393 words consisting of 156 essays was compiled. LOCNESS was chosen as the criterion…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
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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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Kukatlapalli, Johnson; Doyle, Stephanie; Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
Language proficiency is highlighted in the literature on the adjustment and security of international students. India is the second top source country for mobile students globally, but few studies have focused explicitly on students from India. The purpose of this study was to examine the English language experiences of Indian students at New…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning