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Cem Aslan – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2025
Introduction: Writing in braille and utilizing writing skills are challenging for students with visual impairments. These students may encounter specific challenges and make errors in their braille writing. This research aims to examine errors in braille writing made by eighth-grade students with visual impairments. Methods: This study employed a…
Descriptors: Braille, Grade 8, Visual Impairments, Error Analysis (Language)
Jitlada Moonma – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2024
This study focused on investigating common writing errors made by a group of Thai students who participated in online collaborative writing using Google Docs, and understanding their satisfaction and attitudes on this writing approach. The participants consisted 32 Thai first-year English major students who were purposively selected from their…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Collaborative Writing, Error Patterns, Foreign Countries
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
Mubarak, Faisal; Deviana, Ade Destri; Hasanah, Mamluatul; Qomariyah, Lailatul; Nasarudine; Hafiz, Abdul; Marsiah; Yahya, M. – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
Students' Arabic thesis writing comprises several grammatical errors of different types. This study aimed to find out: (1) errors in writing Arabic phrases on students of the Arabic Language Education Master's Program at universities of Indonesia, and (2) factors that caused these writing errors. This research sued a qualitative research design,…
Descriptors: Arabic, Phrase Structure, Grammar, Foreign Countries
Yoon, Chae Won; Chon, Yuah V. – English Teaching, 2022
To investigate L2 adolescent learners' use of machine translation (MT), an MT error correction (EC) test was developed, based on the analysis of MT errors arising from translating the learners' L1 of middle school EFL textbooks. Learners were also asked to report on their use of MT EC strategies on the EC task. Results indicated that…
Descriptors: Translation, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Language Proficiency
Mohammad H. Adam – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Writing proper English sentences poses a significant challenge for Arabic-speaking postsecondary students studying English as a Foreign Language (EFL) due to substantial differences between Arabic and English syntactic structures. This basic qualitative study explored the perceptions of Arabic-speaking EFL learners at an Arabian university…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Arabic
Salmani Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2018
This study attempted at classifying common errors found in the written performance of lower- and upper-intermediate Iranian EFL learners. It engaged a rich corpus of EFL writing samples collected over a course of 20 years (between 1992 and 2011) from lower- and upper-intermediate EFL learners studying at various Iranian universities to provide a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, College Students
Almusharraf, Norah; Alotaibi, Hind – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2021
Committing errors is expected in the development of language acquisition and learning; however, there is limited research that contributes to the literature on the effect of gender of English as a foreign language (EFL) writing. This study explored the gender differences in EFL students' writing using two approaches: human evaluation and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Bahr, Ruth Huntley; Lebby, Stephanie; Wilkinson, Louise C. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Students in grades 5-9 (N = 29) with specific learning disabilities (SLDs) (dysgraphia, dyslexia, or oral and written language learning disability, OWL LD) were asked to take notes and handwrite or type summaries of social studies texts about world geography and cultures that they read or heard. This activity required activating knowledge of…
Descriptors: Spelling, Error Patterns, Error Analysis (Language), Writing (Composition)
Alenazi, Yasir; Chen, Shen; Picard, Michelle; Hunt, Jaime W. – International TESOL Journal, 2021
The English language plays a significant role in Saudi Arabia at the local and international levels. Spelling errors, as one of the challenging elements in writing confronted by Saudi learners of English, have a negative effect on the quality of their written translation products (Ababneh, 2019). Therefore, more analytical studies are needed to…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Translation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Li, Lexi Xiaoduo – Cogent Education, 2022
This study aims to examine how Chinese learners develop in their use and misuse of English modal verbs from Grade 7 to 9. Specifically, it examines form-function connections and explores the factors behind learners' development. The main focus is on the modal verbs "can," "could," "will," "would,"…
Descriptors: Verbs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
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
Ginting, Siti Aisah – Online Submission, 2019
This study was aimed at identifying the kinds and frequency of formal errors on Indonesian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' descripting writing. Therefore, descriptive analysis research design was implemented to achieve the objective. The data were collected from the descriptive writing of university students in Indonesia (N = 40).…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Patterns
Arévalo, María-José; Cantera, María Asun; García-Marina, Vanessa; Alves-Castro, Marian – Education Sciences, 2021
Although Error Analysis (EA) has been broadly used in Foreign Language and Mother Tongue learning contexts, it has not been applied in the field of engineering and by STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) students in a systematic way. In this interdisciplinary pilot study, we applied the EA methodology to a wide corpus of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Instructional Design, Essays, Computational Linguistics
Halitoglu, Vedat – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
Many people from Turkey emigrated to European countries as a result of the bilateral agreements signed between Turkey and related countries after the 1950s. The temporary travels to these countries left their place to permanent settlements, and the Turkish children living there were faced with the danger of alienation from their mother tongue and…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Turkish, Native Language, Academic Achievement