Errors in Written English Essays Among Malay Students

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Errors in Written English Essays AmongMalay Students in Rural Area: A Case Study

on the Factors and Solution

Aqilah Humaira Binti Mokhtar 1315394


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1.0INTRODUCTION

According to the statistic from the internet,writing ranked the second hardest language

skill.This diculties lead to errors in written

English essays especially among Malaystudents in rural area.

Due to slow development in their area, Englishsomehow were neglected as students tend tofocus on Malay language in which all othersubect were taught in that language

1.1 Problem Statement


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1.2 Research Objective

To e!amine the factors of errors in writtenEnglish essays among Malay students in ruralarea.

To identify ways to overcome the errors in

written English essays among Malay studentsin rural area.1.3 Research Question

"hat are the errors in written English essays

among Malay students in rural area# $ow to overcome the errors in written English

essays among Malay students in rural area#


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1.4 Significance

%tudents %tudents can improve their writing skills when

they know the factors that led them to makeerrors in writing skills.

Teachers &uture teachers can identify and practice the

solution that had been found in order to preventstudents from commit the same errors in writtenEnglish essays.


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2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW

'lin and %trother ()**+, p.)+- state that writing isgenerally considered to be one of the active or productiveskills of language usage.

According to %awalmeh (/)-, writing skill is needed for

taking notes, describing obects or devices and writingessays, answering written 0uestions, writing theircompositions, writing e!perimental reports, etc.

According to 1avaliauskiene (//*-, transfer of errors mayoccur because the learners lack the necessary informationin the second language or the attentional capacity toactivate the appropriate second language routine.


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Cont..

Mitchell and Myles (as cited in 1eshavar2,//- claims that errors, if studied, couldreveal a developing system of the student3s4 language and this system is dynamic and

open to changes and resetting of parameters.

5ecent study conducted by %arfra2 (/))- toe!amine the errors made by +/

undergraduate 6akistani students in writtenessays, he found that the overwhelmingmaority of errors the students made resultedfrom learners3 interlanguage process and

some errors resulted from mother tongue


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.) 5espondents of the study

&orm students from %ekolah Menengah 1ebangsaan1ampung 7yior

8 students, 9 Males and 9 &emales from 'nggul

. 5esearch :nstrument Data was collected using written essays (0uantitative

study-

. 5esearch procedure 6art :; Demography

6art ::; English 'sage

6art :::; "ritten Essays on Teachers< Day =elebration

3.0 METHODOLOGY


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4.1 Finding for Research Question 1

"hat are the common errors in written Englishessays among Malay students in rural area#

4.0 DATA ANALYSIS

Type ofFrequency of

ErrorPercentage %

%ubect>?erb Agreement )+ )/.+

Articles * @.)

6reposition )8 ).9)

:nconsistent Tense 98 .))

%pelling ) ).

6lural>%ingular &orm 9 )@.++

Total )9+ )//


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Error Classication Error Identication Error Correction

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their handsB

The teachers andstudents clapped

their handsBThey are dancegracefullyB

They are dancinggracefullyB

Error Classication Error Identication Error Correction

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