*Grammatic progress - a study of grammatical errors by Swedish students of English
Abstract
Purpose:
To examine the grammatical issues in the written production of students of different ages.
Method:
A quantitative study of errors in seven test sentences which students have translated from Swedish to English.
Material:
99 students’ translations of seven Swedish sentences.
Main results:
Students of all grades need to practice their usage of the genitive form and the relative pronoun whom, since for most of the students under study these grammatical elements present problems.
In contrast to the students of Köhlmyr’s study who seem to do better when it comes to realisation errors, the students of this essay did better on how to use the singular form correctly.
All in all, no essential differences between the results of boys and girls were found. However, boys tend to do better when using the present tense verb forms. The results also suggest that the present tense is less problematic for students of grade 7 than for students of the first grade in upper secondary school.
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Student essay
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Date
2013-03-06Author
Lagnemo, Nils
Keywords
grammatic progress
grammatical errors
written production
quantitative study
translation
grammatical issues
Series/Report no.
SPL kandidatuppsats i engelska
SPL 2012-108
Language
eng
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