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Download full textGovindarajoo, Mallika Vasugi; Chin Hui, Chow; A Aziz, Siti Farhah – Asian Journal of University Education, 2022
The purpose of this research was to identify the common errors made in English writing by Malaysian Chinese primary year 6 ESL students and to determine the extent of the influence of the first language, Mandarin in ESL writing. The Mandarin language uses a logographic writing system while the English language is written in alphabetic scripts. The…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Yusoff, Yuniza Mohd; Salehuddin, Khazriyati; Abdullah, Imran Ho; Toran, Hasnah – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2019
Purpose: The inclusion of an increasing number of high-functioning ASD children in mainstream classrooms demands for adequate awareness of autism and effective teaching methods from teachers to ensure that learning takes places efficiently. Hence, this study investigated the atypical language performance of a high-functioning Malay girl with…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Speech Communication
Yoke, Soo Kum; Hasan, Nor Haniza – English Language Teaching, 2014
The teaching of English grammar to second language learners is usually a tedious, stressful and time consuming activity and even after all the effort, students have generally found these lessons boring and confusing. As such, innovative language instructors have been trying different approaches to the teaching of grammar in their classrooms. Using…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphemes, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Manokaran, Janaki; Ramalingam, Chithra; Adriana, Karen – English Language Teaching, 2013
This research is a corpus-based study of secondary and college ESL Malaysian learner's written work by identifying and classifying the types of errors in the Past Tense Auxiliary "Be". This research studied the past tense auxiliary "be", types of past tense auxiliary "be" errors and frequency of past tense auxiliary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Persuasive Discourse, Morphemes, Verbs
Jishvithaa, Joanna M.; Tabitha, M.; Kalajahi, Seyed Ali Rezvani – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2013
This research paper aims to explore the usage of the English Auxiliary "Be" Present Tense Verb, using corpus based method among Malaysian form 4 and form 5 students. This study is conducted by identifying and classifying the types of errors in the Auxiliary "Be" Present Tense verb in students' compositions from the MCSAW corpus…
Descriptors: Morphemes, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Second Language Learning
Kader, Mohamed Ismail bin Abdul; Begi, Neda; Vaseghi, Reza – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study attempts to examine the use of English modals in terms of their frequency and functions. For this purpose, Form 4 and College students' argumentative compositions were extracted from the Malaysian Corpus of Students' Argumentative Writing (MCSAW). In order to analyze the data, this study employed discourse analysis and some descriptive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Students
