Students′ fossilized writing errors : EFL postgraduates at Jordanian universities as a model
Other Title(s)
الأخطاء الكتابية المتحجرة : طلبة الدراسات العليا الأردنيين المتخصصين في اللغة الإنجليزية كلغة أجنبية في الجامعات الأردنية أنموذجا
Author
al-Jamal, Dina Abd al-Hamid Salih
Source
Journal of al-Quds Open University : for Educational and Psychological Research and Studies
Issue
Vol. 6, Issue 19 (31 Oct. 2017), pp.1-17, 17 p.
Publisher
al-Quds Open University Deanship of Scientific Research and Graduate Studies
Publication Date
2017-10-31
Country of Publication
Palestine (West Bank)
No. of Pages
17
Main Subjects
Educational Sciences
Languages & Comparative Literature
Topics
- Universities
- Higher education
- Students
- Teaching
- Jordan
- Linguistics
- English language
- Errors
- Written expression
- Applied linguistics
Abstract EN
The present study aimed at identifying the writing errors across EFL postgraduates' English essays, at Jordanian universities together with providing implications for practice of such errors.
The study entailed two research phases.
In phase one, an essay writing test was administered to 57 EFL postgraduate students in three Jordanian universities as following a descriptive research design.
Their writing errors were identified and classified.
The study concluded that most these errors are related to grammar as well as to article use.
However, in phase two of the study, 24 essays were collected from six participants as lending a case study research design.
More specifically, checking whether postgraduates consistently make the same linguistic forms for four essays in two subsequent semesters shows a lack of knowledge and eventually a fossilized error.
Nonetheless, the study did not focus only on students› infrequent errors, but also on repeated ones.
The study reported that there were a large number of writing errors and with varying degrees.
The utmost fossilized errors explored by this study were those of article, grammar, number, relative clauses and style.
Finally, the study presented a few potential pedagogical implications that may help postgraduates to reduce fossilization.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Jamal, Dina Abd al-Hamid Salih. 2017. Students′ fossilized writing errors : EFL postgraduates at Jordanian universities as a model. Journal of al-Quds Open University : for Educational and Psychological Research and Studies،Vol. 6, no. 19, pp.1-17.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Jamal, Dina Abd al-Hamid Salih. Students′ fossilized writing errors : EFL postgraduates at Jordanian universities as a model. Journal of al-Quds Open University : for Educational and Psychological Research and Studies Vol. 6, no. 19 (Oct. 2017), pp.1-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-795896
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Jamal, Dina Abd al-Hamid Salih. Students′ fossilized writing errors : EFL postgraduates at Jordanian universities as a model. Journal of al-Quds Open University : for Educational and Psychological Research and Studies. 2017. Vol. 6, no. 19, pp.1-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-795896
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 15-17
Record ID
BIM-795896