Abstract:
This
study is on the common grammatical and spelling errors of selected essays of
part II students of the Department of English and Literary Studies, University
of Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. With the application of the random sampling
technique, fifty (50) students partook in the essay writing on the topic ‘The
Importance of English Composition in Schools’ in which thirty (30) essays were
selected for this study. The essays were textually and critically read and the
errors were identified. The result reveals that the most frequent types of
errors made by the participants are grammatical and spelling errors. It further
shows that writing in English as a second language is quite challenging for L2
students. This is a result of the interference and intralingua transfers which
are found to be the major causes of the most common errors discovered during
this study.
Keywords: language error, error analysis, essay writing, second language learners
DOI: www.doi.org/10.36349/tjllc.2024.v03i02.006
author/Muhammad Mallam Modu & Khadijat Alhassan Halilu
journal/Tasambo JLLC 3(2) | September 2024 |
