Abstract
On the basis of the corpus of English Majors’ Composition of Ludong University (EMC corpus), this thesis analyzes the errors in Chinese English Majors’ English writing and the reasons resulting in the errors. The research reveals that in the EMC corpus the proportion of “grammatical errors” ranks the highest, followed by “wrong usage”, “syntactic errors” and “errors of discourse constructions and content”; with the increasing time of learning, learners’ language proficiency has improved and is reflected by their error rate which has been decreasing year by year. Concerning the errors in English writing, this thesis proposes some corresponding strategies to reduce errors and improve the teaching of English writing.
Highlights
3) What are the developmental features of errors in different grades? 4) What are the reasons for those developmental features?
All the errors found in the compositions are collected and classified into four categories, which are “Errors of words”, “Grammatical errors”, “Syntactic errors”, and “Errors of discourse constructions and content”
The private cars are increasing rapidly. (8) Bill Gates has not finish his education in university. (9) It provides us with energy and help us make progress. (10) People will go to work by buses or subways, and the traffic jam will be solve efficiently. (11) The proportion of spelling mistakes is very large in learners’ compositions
Summary
The proportion of “Grammatical errors” ranks the highest, accounting for 55.38%, followed by “Wrong usage (23.46%)” and “Syntactic errors (19.13%)”, and the lowest is “Errors of discourse constructions and content (2.03%)”. The toppest ten proportion of errors in “Error item” (See Table 1 boldface) is 29.3% (Spelling errors), 11.48% (Agreement errors), 8.14% (Wrong sentence structure), 6.26% (Wrong collocation), 5.99% (Chinglish), 4.99% (Wrong usage), 4.84% (Ambiguous sentence), 4.8% (Wrong Part of speech), 4.79% (Tense errors) and 4.65% (Punctuation errors). The errors in writing concentrate on “Grammatical errors (55.38%)” (“Punctuation errors”, 4.65%; “Spelling errors”, 29.3%; “Tense errors”, 4.97%; “Agreement errors”, 11.48%); “Syntactic errors (18.97%)” (“Chinglish”, 5.99%; “Wrong sentence structure”, 8.14%; “Ambiguous sentence”, 4.84%) and “Errors of words (16.05%)” (“Wrong usage”, 4.99%; “Wrong Part of speech”, 6.26%; “Wrong collocation”, 4.80%)
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