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Mehat, Siti Zawani; Ismail, Lilliati – Asian Journal of University Education, 2021
Errors, either in writing or speaking, are common in second language production. Researchers have long been investigating English as Second Language (ESL) learners' errors because they may produce different kinds of errors than native speakers. The purpose of this study was to identify errors made by adult ESL learners and to examine the L1…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
Konuk, Sümeyye – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2021
The research purpose was to identify (1) the problems encountered by academic and administrative staff in emails received from students, (2) positive and negative qualities of the authentic emails of higher education students, (3) functional explanations of the academic email, (4) the problems encountered by students in emails received from…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Higher Education, Academic Language, Language Usage
Cutter, Michael G.; Martin, Andrea E.; Sturt, Patrick – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
We investigated whether readers use the low-level cue of proper noun capitalization in the parafovea to infer syntactic category, and whether this results in an early update of the representation of a sentence's syntactic structure. Participants read sentences containing either a subject relative or object relative clause, in which the relative…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, Syntax, Eye Movements
Yilmaz, H. Merve Altiparmak; Demir, Necati – International Education Studies, 2020
The purpose of this study is to describe the errors made by Turks living in Sydney, Australia in Turkish written texts. The mistakes identified in the texts were handled with the error analysis approach and evaluated according to their linguistic, cognitive processing, communicative, spelling and punctuation characteristics. Content analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Youth, Writing Skills
Alsher, Tasnim – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2021
This study investigated writing errors committed by engineering students at AnNajah National University in Palestine and compared these errors based on school type. It analyzed errors in essays of 54 undergraduate students, 28 attended governmental schools, and 26 attended private schools. Errors were classified based on James's taxonomy. Results…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Achievement, Writing Skills, Error Patterns
Williams, Julie Ann Stuart; Schutts, Joshua; Gallamore, Kristine; Amaral, Nicholas – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2019
This article examines a manageable approach that provides students with significant opportunities to write and improve their writing over time in an introductory quantitative business course. The study examines six elements of written communication skills, as evidenced by assessment data from memorandum assignments administered following…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Writing Skills, Communication Skills, Business Skills
Don't Just Judge the Spelling! The Influence of Spelling on Assessing Second-Language Student Essays
Jansen, Thorben; Vögelin, Cristina; Machts, Nils; Keller, Stefan; Möller, Jens – Frontline Learning Research, 2021
When judging subject-specific aspects of students' texts, teachers should assess various characteristics, e.g., spelling and content, independently of one another since these characteristics are indicators of different skills. Independent judgments enable teachers to adapt their classroom instruction according to students' skills. It is still…
Descriptors: Spelling, Punctuation, Writing Evaluation, Essays
Datchuk, Shawn M.; Hier, Bridget O.; Watts, Emily A. – Elementary School Journal, 2021
We conducted a skills analysis on written expression curriculum-based measurement (WE-CBM) tasks completed by 117 second-grade students. As part of the skills analysis, we scored two WE-CBM tasks (i.e., narrative and expository) for correct and incorrect writing sequences, common writing errors, and sentence structures. Although a majority of…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Writing Skills, Curriculum Based Assessment
Paudel, Pitambar – Online Submission, 2022
With the change in socio-political and educational contexts in global academia, the trend of writing academic papers has arisen among Nepali students and educators in higher education. However, many of them are still unfamiliar with the basic standard to be incorporated in an academic paper. In this context, this study examined the post-graduate…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Syntax, Error Patterns, Foreign Countries
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
Weiner (1988. "On Editing a Usage Guide." In "Words for Robert Burchfield's Sixty-Fifth Birthday," edited by E. G. Stanley, and T. F. Hoad, 171-183. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 173) describes usage guides as being 'as broad as the English language, covering spelling, punctuation, phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexis, and…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sociolinguistics, Guides, Real Estate
Alenazi, Yasir; Chen, Shen; Picard, Michelle; Hunt, Jaime W. – International TESOL Journal, 2021
The English language plays a significant role in Saudi Arabia at the local and international levels. Spelling errors, as one of the challenging elements in writing confronted by Saudi learners of English, have a negative effect on the quality of their written translation products (Ababneh, 2019). Therefore, more analytical studies are needed to…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Translation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Rzepka, Nathalie; Müller, Hans-Georg; Simbeck, Katharina – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2021
The ability to spell correctly is a fundamental skill for participating in society and engaging in professional work. In the German language, the capitalization of nouns and proper names presents major difficulties for both native and nonnative learners, since the definition of what is a noun varies according to one's linguistic perspective. In…
Descriptors: Spelling, German, Punctuation, Nouns
Charpentier-Jiménez, William – Online Submission, 2020
This article studies students' use of sentence variety in an ESL writing course. The study includes three sentence features: (a) sentence types, (b) sentence combining, and (c) sentence patterns. Although sentence variety is part of the curriculum, the actual use of sentence structures has not been measured so far. By understanding students' use…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Khatter, Sanaa – Arab World English Journal, 2019
This study was conducted to explore and analyze the most common essay writing errors among Saudi female learners at the departments of English, Majmaa'h University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Therefore, the aim has been to identify those difficulties from an error analysis standpoint and identify the sources underlying them. An analysis of a written…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Writing Difficulties, Writing Instruction, Advanced Courses
Amnuai, Wirada – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2020
Errors in writing are unavoidable while students are trying to develop their writing skills. There have been several studies on identifying writing problems or errors in students' writing. It is believed that identifying students' written tasks is an effective tool to explore the difficulties involved in learning language. This helps teachers'…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Undergraduate Students, English for Academic Purposes, Error Patterns