Writing syntactical and punctuation errors among first level sudanese University students
Other Title(s)
الأخطاء النحوية وعلامات الترقيم وسط طلاب المستوى الأول بالجامعات السودانية
Author
Abd Allah, Ahmad Muhammad Ahmad
Source
Journal of Linguistic and Literary Studies
Issue
Vol. 20, Issue 4 (31 Dec. 2019), pp.158-164, 7 p.
Publisher
Sudan University of Science and Technology Deanship of Scientific Research
Publication Date
2019-12-31
Country of Publication
Sudan
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The study is an attempt to analyze paragraph writing syntactical and punctuation errors that are committed by Sudanese university students, first level who study English a foreign language (FL).
The targeted students have finished their academic study at secondary level schools then they joined the university in the year (2016 -2017).
The objectives of the study are to investigate and analyze the difficulties and problems in their grammar and certain skills of writing performance.
Based on the findings the results show clearly the weaknesses in grammar and students' certain writing skills.
The weaknesses in grammar and students' writing performance are attributed mainly to the developmental errors that are associated to the developing sequence of learning English.
Also, Intralingua errors and interference of mother tongue (interlinguas) set as extra important causes as well.
The study adopts the descriptive methodology.
Though students bear considerable problems in paragraph writing performance, they show promotion in acquiring certain writing skills and have shown noticeable developing in their writing performance by the end of the said year.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Abd Allah, Ahmad Muhammad Ahmad. 2019. Writing syntactical and punctuation errors among first level sudanese University students. Journal of Linguistic and Literary Studies،Vol. 20, no. 4, pp.158-164.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1337596
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Abd Allah, Ahmad Muhammad Ahmad. Writing syntactical and punctuation errors among first level sudanese University students. Journal of Linguistic and Literary Studies Vol. 20, no. 4 (Dec. 2019), pp.158-164.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1337596
American Medical Association (AMA)
Abd Allah, Ahmad Muhammad Ahmad. Writing syntactical and punctuation errors among first level sudanese University students. Journal of Linguistic and Literary Studies. 2019. Vol. 20, no. 4, pp.158-164.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1337596
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Record ID
BIM-1337596