English Language Error Analysis of the Written Texts Produced by Ukrainian Learners: Data Collection Cover Image

English Language Error Analysis of the Written Texts Produced by Ukrainian Learners: Data Collection
English Language Error Analysis of the Written Texts Produced by Ukrainian Learners: Data Collection

Author(s): Lessia Mykolayivna Kotsyuk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: corpus; data; English language; error; error analysis; Ukrainian learner

Summary/Abstract: Recently, the studies of second language acquisition have tended to focus on learners errors as they help to predict the difficulties involved in acquiring a second language. Thus, teachers can be made aware of the difficult areas to be encountered by the students and pay special attention and devote emphasis to them. The research goals of the article are to define what error analysis is and how it is important in L2 teaching process, to state the significance of corpus studies in identifying of different types of errors and mistakes, to provide the results of error analysis of the corpus of written texts produced by Ukrainian learners. In this article, major types of errors in English as a second language for Ukrainian students are mentioned.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 389-395
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English