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- Title
Revisiting Causes of Grammar Errors: Commonly Confused Lexical Category Dyads in Korean EFL Student Writing.
- Authors
Sugene Kim
- Abstract
This study reports on the findings of error analysis of a learner corpus consisting of 238 English argumentative essays written by Korean college students, specifically on errors that stem from confusion of lexical categories. A three-step error analysis was conducted following a procedure established by Rod Ellis in 1995. The results revealed 10 commonly confused lexical category dyads-coordinators or subordinators mistaken for adverbs, adverbs for conjunctions, gerunds for nouns, the adverb almost for either an adjective or a noun, the pronoun each other for an adverb, adverbs for nouns, conjunctions for prepositions, prepositions for conjunctions, the preposition to for an infinitive, and the adverbial for example for a preposition. Discussions of the causes of such confusion-homogeneous L1 translation, failure to correctly punctuate spoken language in writing, lack of L2 grammar knowledge, negative transfer of L1 morphosyntactic properties, and lack of L2 lexical knowledge-are delineated with specific examples. The limitations of the study and pedagogical implications are addressed.
- Subjects
GRAMMAR; COMPARATIVE grammar; WRITING; ERROR analysis in foreign language education; ADVERBS (Grammar)
- Publication
English Teaching, 2016, Vol 71, Issue 2, p61
- ISSN
1017-7108
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15858/engtea.71.2.201606.61