A comparative study of morphosyntactic and discourse errors of intermediate and advanced EFL learners’ writing
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A. Majid Hayati
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Alireza Jalilifar
Abstract
The main purpose of the present paper is to identify the morphosyntactic and discourse errors of language learners at sentence and essay levels. To achieve this end, a total number of 50 Iranian university students were selected to participate in the study. Two types of test were administrated to the participants: a recognition test and a production test. In the former, the participants were asked to read 42 English sentences and identify the erroneous morphosyntactic forms; and in the latter, they were required to translate 14 Persian sentences into English and also write a two paragraph essay. Using Ferris’ (2002) model, the results indicated that there was a direct relationship between the number of errors and the participants’ level of proficiency. The results also revealed statistically significant differences between error identification and error production of both freshmen and seniors Iranian English language learners.
© School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, 2011
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- Part one. Complexity in Natural Linguistics. Guest edited by Wolfgang U. Dressler
- The rise of complexity in inflectional morphology
- Morphological complexity without abstractness: Italo-Romance metaphony
- A "natural" approach to text complexity
- Towards naturalness scales of pragmatic complexity
- Part two. Regular articles
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- Common Semantic Denominators of the Internal Vowel Alternation System in English
- Indexical pronouns: Generic uses as clues to their structure
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- On the phonetic instability of the Polish rhotic /r/
- Lexical and functional decomposition in syntax: A view from phonology
