Error analysis : Investigating the paragraph writing of malaysian esl learners

• Main Authors: Zuraina, Ali, Shahid, Shahid Hussain, Amy Zulaikha, Mohd Ali, Ahmed, Abubaker Hassan Bakri, Jayapalan, Evelyn
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak 2023
• Subjects: L Education (General); LB Theory and practice of education; PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania; PN Literature (General)
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/38362/1/Error%20analysis_Investigating%20the%20paragraph%20writing%20of%20malaysian%20esl%20learners.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/38362/; https://doi.org/10.33736/ils.5031.2023
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Pahang

The study investigates an impromptu writing task administered to diploma students studying in one of the technical universities on the East Coast of Malaysia. In particular, it identifies grammatical errors in one-paragraph writing in terms of overall errors, most errors and least errors. The sample...