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Download full textSermsook, 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)
Nushi, Musa – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2016
Han's (2009, 2013) selective fossilization hypothesis (SFH) claims that L1 markedness and L2 input robustness determine the fossilizability (and learnability) of an L2 feature. To test the validity of the model, a pseudo-longitudinal study was designed in which the errors in the argumentative essays of 52 Iranian EFL learners were identified and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Parasher, S. V. – CIEFL Bulletin, 1977
Some of the errors in selected areas of English grammar and lexis made by a sample of 100 first year college students from Madhya Pradesh, India, were investigated. The errors of students are described in linguistic terms, and some of the probable sources of errors are explained. The rules of grammar and usage that should be established to help…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Grammar
Peer reviewedMolholt, Garry – Computers and the Humanities, 1990
Examines how sound spectrographs provide students learning a second language direct, visual feedback that is more useful than instructors' comments on articulation. Shows spectrographs of words pronounced by native and non-native English speakers. Argues this real-time acoustic analysis is less frustrating and more productive than traditional…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Applied Linguistics, College Second Language Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction
Graham, Janet G. – 1981
Causes of language fossilization and ways to overcome it are considered. Fossilization is the relatively permanent incorporation of incorrect linguistic forms into a person's second language competence. The discussion is focused on fossilization of incorrect syntactical rules, based on experiences with learners of English as a second language at…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, College Students, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Curtin, Constance; And Others – Studies in Language Learning, 1981
Learning characteristics of students undertaking computer assisted instruction using the PLATO system were assessed for five Russian courses at the University of Illinois. Since the computer allows accurate measurement of the interaction of the student with the material being learned, four measures of student performance were assessed--error rate,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Second Language Programs, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction
