The interference of the native–speaking language in the English writing performance of Jordanian Universities students
An error analysis study
Keywords:
error, error analysis, inter-lingual, writing, native-speaking languageAbstract
This study aims to investigate the errors that students made in writing test in a private university in Jordan and mainly focuses on inter-lingual errors. This research has adopted qualitative methodology and analytical approach which involves the assessment of facts, evaluation of information and critical thinking to examine the data from the targeted respondents and get outcomes. Descriptive and inferential analysis tool were used in the study to provide meaningful and significant interpretation of the data gathered from the writing tasks, which helped to describe, summarize, and illuminate the data meaningfully and obtain more powerful analyses ,Therefore, inferential statistics in this study were used to get conclusions and inferences, The materials that are used in this study consist of 100 compositions test written by a group of Students ranging from 18 to 21 years from Zarqa University selected using a random sampling process, given forty-five minutes to accomplish a writing task between 200 to 250 words. Then, it collected from the participants for analysis. This study attempts to explore the major sources of errors occurred in the writing of EFL students.
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