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Error Analysis Appearance in First Year Thai Students Academic Writing

ByEko MulyonoS200140053

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1. IntroductionThis study examines how Thai graduate students transfer their language to an Academic English Writing.

Therefore, it is safe to say that writing grammatically correctly is needed in academic writing, but is one of main obstacles students encounter. For example, Hong Kong university students had problems with the language rather than the content or structure of academic texts. They had difficulty in conveying their ideas appropriately and in writing accurately and smoothly.

Accordingly, the researcher is interested in studying error sentences in the academic English writing made by Thai graduate students who are studying in an English major program.

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2.1 Error analysis Error Analysis (EA) is the study of learner errors, providing the way to examine learner language, being a part of language teaching, finding out whether errors were caused by L1 interference or developmental factors (Reid, 1993).

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1. Angwatanakul (1975) analyzed the types and frequency of errors in English compositions written by Thai first year university students at Chulalongkorn University.

2. Ubol (1981) analyzed errors in English composition of first and third year Prince of Songkha University students in Pattani.

3. Chiewkul and Rujikiatkumjorn (1989) studied errors of a written picture series composition and a translation made by Khon Kaen University freshmen.

4. Chownahe (2000) studied grammatical errors of English compositions of Thai high school students.

5. Ayurawatana (2002) analyzed types and frequency of errors in lexical and sentential levels of research proposals written by fourth year English major students of Khon Kaen University.

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2.2 Academic Writing

According to Hogue and Oshima (1999), academic writing refers to the type of writing which students are required to do in universities, being different from other types of writing in several ways.

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41 students41 students

purposive sampling technique

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82 Pieces of written work

41 task 41 final exam

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4.1 The Extent to which Thai Graduate Students may Transfer Thai into their Academic English Writing in terms of Error Sentences

The total number of interference errors appeared to a fairly large extent, almost half of all the errors (46.67%) that occurred in the present study. These overall interference errors were: omission of subjects, objects and complements, using adjectives as main verbs, omission of auxiliary verbs, omission of a transitive verb before a direct object, phrasal verb error, using serial verb constructions, redundancy of two conjunctions, although and but with two clauses, lack of subordinators and the redundancy of there and the verb to have in there structure, misplacement of modifiers and quantifiers, misplacement of percentage, missordering of compound noun+ noun, no inversions between a subject and a modal verb in a question form, run- on sentences, fragments and word- by –word translation.

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4.2 Comparison between Writing with Less Time Constraint and Writing with More Time Constraint in Occurrences of Types of Error

In term papers, there were all five types of error; interference errors, over-generalization, ignorance of rule restrictions, incomplete application of rules and false concept hypothesized. However, in the writing task, no false concept hypothesized could be found. This means that more time and a larger amount of words influences how non-native speakers compose the target language.

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4.3 Different Types of Error of Academic English Writing in terms of Error Sentences by Thai Graduate StudentsThis research result supports the results of Chownahe (2000) and Khaoural (2002) in that the main cause of intralingual and developmental errors were incomplete application of rules and ignorance of rule restrictions.

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1. Implication

1. It can make contributions to English as a foreign language teaching and acquisition, especially academic English writing. As for English as a foreign language teaching.

2. The findings can be a guideline to improve academic English writing instruction.

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2. Result

The data were gathered by conducting a writing task and collecting a copy of the students’ final term paper and analyzed by identifying the types of error based on Richards (1971). The findings may be useful for English as a foreign language teaching and acquisition especially in academic English writing instruction. The EFL Thai students may be aware of and better understand about mother tongue interference and other types of error which can probably take place and then they may be able to produce grammatically correct sentences.

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3. Recommendation

1. Since data in the present study were only documents, that is, written works, other ways of collecting data should be included in future research such as an interview in order to gain more information about the causes of error the students make in their writing.

2. This study is a kind of cross-sectional studies taking place at a single point in time, so a longitudinal study should be very interesting to conduct so as to better understand the learning process and the developmental process of the students’ writing.

3. This present study only focused on studying errorsentences, a part of syntactic errors in academic English composition.

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