Grammatical Errors in Written Production by Swedish Learners of English - A Quantitative Study of Concord Errors and Selected Verb Errors in 35 National Tests for the B-Course of English
Abstract
The aim of this study is to analyse the most frequent grammatical errors made by students of the B-course of English in Swedish Upper Secondary School. As primary material, 35 national tests of written production have been used. In these essays, the most common errors have been found to be errors of concord and verb errors related to time and tense. These have been categorised, counted and compared to the errors found by Köhlmyr in her study from 2003.
Degree
Student essay
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student essay
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Date
2012-06-27Author
Norlander, Ida
Keywords
grammatical errors
concord errors
verb errors of time and tense
Swedish learners of English
Upper Secondary school
Series/Report no.
SPL kandidatuppsats i engelska
SPL 2012-048
Language
eng
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