A Comparative Study of 10th Grade Turkish Cypriot Students' Writing Errors

Autor/inn/en	Terzioglu, Yildiz; Bensen Bostanci, Hanife
Titel	A Comparative Study of 10th Grade Turkish Cypriot Students' Writing Errors
Quelle	In: SAGE Open, 10 (2020) 1, (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Terzioglu, Yildiz) ORCID (Bensen Bostanci, Hanife)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2158-2440
DOI	10.1177/2158244020914541
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; English (Second Language); Second Language Instruction; Error Patterns; Sentences; Grade 10; High School Students; Grammar; Audiovisual Aids; Written Language; Teaching Methods; Cyprus + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Fehlertyp; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Grammatik; Audiovisuelles Medium; Geschriebene Sprache; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Zypern
Abstract	The present study aims to shed light on analyzing the types and the frequency of the written sentence errors committed by 58 tenth grade Turkish Cypriot English as a foreign language (EFL) students in two classrooms, that is, Class A and B at a public vocational high school in North Cyprus. A quasi-experimental design was employed in the study where Class A was the experimental group which was exposed to an audio-visual aid titled "the Little Red Riding Hood" and Class B who acted as the control group. Data were collected from the written sentences produced by the students. All the errors committed by the students were identified and categorized into syntactic, morphological, orthographic, and lexical categories. The results of the study showed that both classes of students committed 11 types of common errors: (a) wrong use of articles, (b) wrong use of prepositions, (c) word order, (d) verb tense, (e) omission of plural -s, (f) misuse of the possessive -s, (g) incorrect use of comparative adjectives, (h) incorrect spelling, (i) punctuation, (j) capitalization, and (k) wrong words. However, the experimental group committed less errors (N = 232, 57.14%) as compared to the control group (N = 320, 78.82%). The findings have implications for EFL teachers to incorporate audio-visual aids into their teaching methodologies when teaching the writing skill. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01