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Mencias, Yaweh Lady E.; De Vera, Presley V. – Journal of English as an International Language, 2018
The study anchors on the Linguistic research tradition of Error Analysis (EA), focused on the grammatical errors, specifically on "verb tenses" manifested in the sentences of Japanese ESL learners. The entire respondent population was drawn from the pool of registered learners in 2017 at the Clark Institute of the Philippines Foundation,…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Verbs, Morphemes, English (Second Language)
Gascon, Christopher D. – Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1998
The Spanish psychological verb construction seems to be especially difficult for native English-speaking learners to acquire. Since some of the most common Spanish psych verbs, such as "gustar" (to please) and "encantar" (to delight), require a grammatical structure that is different from that of the English verbs frequently…
Descriptors: English, Error Patterns, Grammar, Higher Education
Park, Kyung-Ja; Nakano, Michiko – Journal of Japan-Korea Association of Applied Linguistics, 1998
This investigation encompassed a full-scale experiment for both Japanese and Korean university students and looked at the following: the role of grammaticality-judgment tasks (GJT) in second-language acquisition; the learners' behaviors when they were asked to do GJT; and the reasons why the learners made the wrong grammatical judgments.…
Descriptors: College Students, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Foreign Countries
Barnwell, David – 1987
A study examined the patterns of error in the preterite and imperfect tenses in the written Spanish of native English-speaking college students. Errors found in the midterm examination were analyzed to determine whether they were due to incorrect tense, incorrect form of the tense, or both. It was predicted that many students would choose…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Error Patterns
Mavrides, Vasilia Bolla – 1990
A study examined the errors in the use of prepositions, particularly of prepositional verbs, made by native Greek speakers learning English. Two tests were constructed, one a translation of a Greek text into English and the other a series of English sentences to be completed with the appropriate prepositional word based on the Greek equivalent…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Greek
Gradman, Harry L.; Hanania, Edith – 1988
A study investigated the variability of language performance on different types of testing task, global versus discrete-focus. Three tests (cloze, multiple-choice, and fill-in-the-blank) were developed to measure learners' knowledge of five verb forms. The tests, containing corresponding items designed to elicit equivalent structures, were…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
Hatch, Elke J. – 1983
The use of discussion about students' vacations on the first day of a third-year college level conversational German class is analyzed. The discussion imitates a common conversational situation. Many students at this level tend to fall into use of the present tense, attempting few other tenses at first, and research shows that Germans consider…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Chappel, Virginia A.; Rodby, Judith – 1982
The problems encountered by English as second language (ESL) students in selecting verb tenses for their written discourse were investigated. Tape recorded interviews with four freshman composition students who had been referred for intensive work on verb errors were analyzed for students' explanations of their errors and the contexts in which…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns

Salaberry, M. Rafael; Lopez-Ortega, Nuria – Modern Language Journal, 1998
A study analyzed the accuracy of Spanish second-language production across three tasks (narrative, multiple-choice cloze test, fill-in cloze test) on three discourse-determined grammatical items (subject pronouns, articles, past tense aspect) among 74 intermediate and advanced college-level learners. Results revealed different rates of accuracy…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, Error Patterns, Grammar

Sinyor, Roberta – CALICO Journal, 1997
Describes several sources of errors made by students of Italian and some of the problem-solving behaviors in drill-and-practice exercises on direct and indirect object pronouns and the present perfect tense. The article identifies an unexpected source of error and a problem-solving behavior not found in the traditional learning environment and…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Li, Liu – 1989
A study investigated the process of learning French by Chinese students, as revealed by student errors in 48 compositions and 33 oral reports. Grammatical, or competency, errors were categorized by type and frequency. Analysis of the results shows the most frequent errors to be, in declining order of occurrence: in the use of articles; choice of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages), Error Patterns
Schwarte, Barbara; Matsumura-Lothrop, Emiko – MinneTESOL Journal, 1987
A study analyzed the ability of 31 advanced students of English as a Second Language (ESL) to monitor their own use of article and verb errors in their compositions. Subjects were 31 foreign graduate students enrolled in an advanced composition course at Iowa State University. The two categories of grammatical errors were monitored in three…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Determiners (Languages), English (Second Language), Error Correction
Izzo, John – 1999
A survey of 34 professors teaching English as a second language in 20 Japanese universities elicited information about common errors in student writing. In open-ended questions, respondents identified 40 student error types, which were grouped into 18 categories. The most common problem category was sentence development, and other high-frequency…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students, Determiners (Languages)
Aponte, Irene A. – 1985
A study of the relationship between patterns of use of the verb "to be" and reading comprehension had as subjects 103 college freshmen in a developmental program, including 53 black and 50 white students. The students' use of Black English constructions of the verb on a writing skills test and their errors in response to a reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis
Otsu, Yukio, Ed. – 1989
Seven original research papers are presented. The titles and authors are as follows: "Acquisition of the Argument-Structure of Verbs" (Mika Endo); "A Note on Semantic Selection" (Yoshio Endo); "The Governing Category Parameter in Second Language" (Makiko Hirakawa); "The Use of Connectives in English Academic…
Descriptors: College Students, English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language), Error Patterns
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