An Analysis of Grammatical Errors in the Written Productions of Some Nigerien Senior Secondary School Students

Maiguero, Abdou; Tankari, Moussa; Allagbé, Ayodele Adebayo

doi:10.36348/jaep.2021.v05i03.004

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“…Of the 308 errors recorded about 29.54% of those errors resulted from the wrong use of the tenses. This study agrees with that done by Maiguero (2021) in terms of the error frequency, where tense errors receive the highest frequencies. The following are some examples extracted from the pupils" compositions: "… that I meet in school…" when he meant to say "…that I met in school…" "…I was took to the principal office."…”

Section: Errors In the Use Of Verb Tensessupporting

confidence: 92%

“…For verb tense errors, the medical students committed 15, engineering students (26) and computer science students (20). Maiguero, A. et al (2021) studied the grammatical errors of some Nigerian senior secondary school students. The errors of 30 students were studied, a total of 410 errors were extracted and their frequencies were as follow: tense errors (139), spelling (102), agreement (61), preposition (28), article (28), verb (22), noun (15) and adjective (15).…”

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confidence: 99%

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An Analysis of the Grammatical Errors in the Written English Compositions of JSS 1 Pupils in Five Junior Secondary Schools in Bo City, Southern Sierra Leone

Libbie¹,

Challay²,

Dimoh³

2023

IJL

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This study focuses on the grammatical errors in the essays written by JSS1 pupils in five junior secondary schools in Bo city. It aims at identifying the errors occurring in the use English grammar by pupils, classifying the errors, determining their frequency levels and their sources. The descriptive survey design was used in this study, where out of a population of 853 pupils, 250 pupils were used a sample for this study. Each of the pupils was asked to write an essay, and the scripts were marked to identify all grammatical errors made by the pupils. From this study, it was discovered that out of 250 scripts, 32% of the pupils were not able to communicate their thoughts meaningfully. Out of the comprehensible scripts the following errors were identified and their frequencies: wrong use of tense 29.54%, errors in spelling 24.67%, errors in the choice of words 13.13%, wrong use of prepositions 7.79%, verb addition errors 5.84%, preposition addition errors 4.87%, pronoun addition, subject-verb agreement errors, wrong use of pronouns, plural and verb omission errors all received 1.62% each. The study further revealed that a good number of errors discovered from students’ writings were intralingual errors.

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Section: Errors In the Use Of Verb Tensessupporting

confidence: 92%

Section: Frequency Of Errorsmentioning

confidence: 99%