A comparative study of morphosyntactic and discourse errors of intermediate and advanced EFL learners’ writing

• Authors: A. Majid Hayati , Alireza Jalilifar , Ali Bardideh
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

morphosyntactic errors; contrastive analysis; discourse; writing

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Journal: Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 47
• Pages: 361

Dates

published

2011

received

2010-12-15

revised

2011-03-15

accepted

2011-03-16

online

2011-06-14

Contributors

author

A. Majid Hayati

• Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran

author

Alireza Jalilifar

• Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran

author

Ali Bardideh

• Iranian academic center for education, culture and research, Khouzestan branch, Iran

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/psicl-2011-0021