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- Title
AN ANALYSIS ON GRAMMATICAL ERRORS OF TURKISH EFL STUDENTS' WRITTEN TEXTS.
- Authors
KÖROĞLU, Zeynep ÇETİN
- Abstract
Errors and mistakes in foreign language use is the reflection of learners' language learning process. Learners can profit from their errors if appropriate feedback is provided after errors or mistakes have committed by learners. Even in modern times errors have not been tolerated in language classrooms and seen as a deficiency in language use. However, according to important scholars errors present a view which is related with learners' discovery of a foreign language. Within the light of this perspective the current research aimed to analyze Turkish EFL learners' errors with error analysis approach. Besides, this study investigated grammatical errors in a corpus 23 persuasive essays written by 23 Turkish EFL students at Gazi University, Turkey. The participants were fourth-year student teachers of Arabic language teaching department. They had educated approximately same number of years of education in primary, secondary and high school education. Their exposure to English language is quite limited especially in listening and speaking skills. The instrument used in current study is students' written persuasive essays. Participants' grammatical errors classified, identified and categorized. The result of the study shows that participants made intralingual errors, L1 transfer in preposition use, interlingual errors especially overgeneralization, ignorance of rule restriction and incomplete application of rules. Error Analysis approach has been utilized in present research and the results show that Turkish EFL students committed mostly interlingual errors in their persuasive essays.
- Subjects
ENGLISH as a foreign language; TURKISH students; TURKISH language; LEARNING ability; GAZI Universitesi; ERROR analysis in foreign language education
- Publication
Electronic Turkish Studies, 2014, Vol 9, Issue 12, p101
- ISSN
1308-2140
- Publication type
Article