Error Analysis in Role-play Presentations among Less Proficient L2 Malaysian Learners
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Mohammad Azannee Haji Saad
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Murad Hassan Mohammed Sawalmeh
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- Keywords:
- Error analysis, role-play presentations, surface structure taxonomy, grammatical accuracy
- Abstract
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The speaking skill in non-native language has been the subject of investigations in
recent years (Hojati, 2013). The present study examines errors in the speech of less proficient
speakers of English during their role-play presentations. The samples were obtained during their
enrolment in Foundation English class, a class where those who scored low during English
Placement Test registered. The errors in their speech were analysed by following surface
structure taxonomy that specifies four types of errors namely misformation, misordering,
addition and omission. Findings indicate that omission accounted for the majority of errors
identified and this is followed by misformation, addition and misordering. In addition, linguistic
descriptions of errors identified verb form and word form to be the most frequent types of errors
committed by speakers. - Downloads
- Published
- 2014-07-11
- Issue
- Vol. 3 No. 3 (2014)
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- Articles