Grammatical Errors In Language Acquisition

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Committing errors is an integral part of language learning and grammar plays an important role in language acquisition. Using grammar accurately will be influenced in having an effective communication. The aim of the present study was to analyze different types of grammatical errors made by Iranian EFL university students while speaking English in the class. For so doing, during the Fall Semester of 2015 academic year, the authentic presentations/conversations/dialogues of students in the class were recorded. The corpus was then transcribed and analyzed in order to identify different types and frequency of grammatical errors made by the learners. In general, the errors were divided into 8 parts. It was revealed that students had more problems in using plural ‘s’, subject / verb agreement, wrong use of the verb, and prepositions. The results were discussed and the pedagogical implications were made.

Keywords: grammatical errors; EFL learners; speaking

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Error Analysis …show more content…

Some reasons made this shift. First of all, CA was subjective. Secondly, it was unable to identify all errors in language learning and the third reason was that there was no fixed correlation between difficulty of language and differences between languages [1]. Therefore, error analysis was introduced, as there was a need for a new linguistic method. [2] explains the importance of error analysis, as “the study of error is part of an investigation of the process of language learning. In this respect, it resembles methodological study of acquisition of the mother tongue. It provides us with a picture of linguistic development of a learner and may give us indication as to learning process” (1967, P.

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