Error Analysis: A Case Study of High Basic Stage Students in Latin Secondary School in Zarqa, Jordan

Abstract

Errors made by Jordanian school students due to transfer from Arabic to English were analyzed in an attempt to help them overcome their weakness. The subjects of the study are private mixed school students in Zarqa. They are in the tenth grade and have been taught English mainly by Arab teachers. The study consists of 32 students who were asked to write a paragraph consists of 100 to 150 words. They were given sufficient time and asked to write freely and to express their points of view about the given topic. Errors from the scripts were analyzed on the basis of models given in literature. All types of errors were committed by the students which suggest that attention should be devoted to writing at high basic stage .

Keywords: Error Analysis; Sources of Errors; Error Identification and Categorization