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Carrió Pastor, María Luisa; Mestre-Mestre, Eva María – International Journal of English Studies, 2014
Nowadays, scientific writers are required not only a thorough knowledge of their subject field, but also a sound command of English as a lingua franca. In this paper, the lexical errors produced in scientific texts written in English by non-native researchers are identified to propose a classification of the categories they contain. This study…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Guidelines, Error Patterns
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Diez-Bedmar, Maria Belen – International Journal of English Studies, 2011
In this paper an updated overview of the main errors that Spanish students make when writing the English exam in the University Entrance Examination is provided. To do so, a Computer-aided Error Analysis (CEA) (Dagneaux, Denness & Granger, 1998) was conducted on a representative sample of the students who took the exam in June 2008 in Jaen,…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Academic Achievement, Error Analysis (Language), Foreign Countries