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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
:nconsistent Tense The teachers andstudents are clapped
their handsB
The teachers andstudents clapped
their handsBThey are dancegracefullyB
They are dancinggracefullyB
Error Classication Error Identication Error Correction
%pelling After that, Crst
competition is correlspeaking.
After that, Crst
competition is choralspeaking.
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