Investigating Errors on High School Students from Govt. Schools of Sindh:An Error Analysis Perspective

Intikhab Ahmed Panhwar, Shoukat Ali Lohar, Wazir Ali Kalhoro

Abstract


This study investigates errors on part of L2 learners’ composed essays. 25 collected essays were studied, analyzed and assessed. The prevailing errors were spotted in terms of their recurrence. The participants in this study were high school students. The outcome exhibits that most of the participants commit grammatical errors in abundance with eleven types common in them. The study concluded that students were not in a position to show the difference among present, past and future tense, resulting a greater number of spelling errors as well.

Keywords: Error analysis, grammatical errors, English essay writing

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-24-12

Publication date:August 31st 2020


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