| Titre : |
An Error Analysis of English Verb-Tenses and Aspects in Adverbial Clauses of Time in Students’ Academic Writing The Case of Third Year BA Students of English at Frères Mentouri University of Constantine |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Imene Belamri, Auteur ; Riad Belouahem, Directeur de thèse |
| Editeur : |
CONSTANTINE [ALGERIE] : Université Frères Mentouri Constantine |
| Année de publication : |
2020 |
| Importance : |
77 f. |
| Format : |
30cm. |
| Note générale : |
Une copie electronique PDF disponible au BUC. |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
Lettres et Langues Etrangères:Langue Anglaise
|
| Tags : |
Error Analysis Verb-Tenses Adverbial Clauses |
| Index. décimale : |
420 Langue anglaise |
| Résumé : |
Error analysis brought in the acknowledgment that committing errors does not indicate a failure
in the learning process, and that they are a part and parcel of the latter. Following error analysis
approach, the present study aims at analyzing third-year students’ written compositions at the
Department of Letters and the English language at university of Frères Mentouri, Constantine.
The analysis centered on identifying tense error occurrences, understanding, and explaining the
potential sources behind their production. Accordingly, it was hypothesized that the lack of
grammatical knowledge about English tenses and aspects would lead to committing errors and
improperly employ them in different contexts. To achieve the research objectives, a
questionnaire and forty essays of randomly selected students out of a population of 355 students
were used as data collection instruments. The results obtained from an in-depth scrutiny of the
participants’ errors and the classification thereof ,by adopting the surface strategy taxonomy
suggested by Dulay, Burt, and krashen (1982) revealed that the most recurrent errors committed
in the students’ writing are related to the use of the present perfect tense , present progressive
tense ,and past simple tense . Furthermore, the results showed that the majority of tense errors
are mostly attributed to the mother tongue interference ; in other words, the influence of Arabic
grammatical tenses on the English ones. The rest of errors were related to subject-verb
agreement and wrong verb forms ; these are clearly intralingual errors due to incomplete
learning of the English verb tenses. Hence , it is recommended that students need to completely
cut out their first language in an English learning context and that teachers should maximize
the students’ exposure to more formal tasks to help them get rid of transferring their linguistic
old habits into English and enhance their comprehension of all the English tenses . In
conclusion, some limitations of the study have been outlined, so as to offer guidance on how
future researches can refine the current research area. |
| Diplome : |
Master 2 |
| Permalink : |
https://bu.umc.edu.dz/master/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=13231 |
An Error Analysis of English Verb-Tenses and Aspects in Adverbial Clauses of Time in Students’ Academic Writing The Case of Third Year BA Students of English at Frères Mentouri University of Constantine [texte imprimé] / Imene Belamri, Auteur ; Riad Belouahem, Directeur de thèse . - CONSTANTINE [ALGERIE] : Université Frères Mentouri Constantine, 2020 . - 77 f. ; 30cm. Une copie electronique PDF disponible au BUC. Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
Lettres et Langues Etrangères:Langue Anglaise
|
| Tags : |
Error Analysis Verb-Tenses Adverbial Clauses |
| Index. décimale : |
420 Langue anglaise |
| Résumé : |
Error analysis brought in the acknowledgment that committing errors does not indicate a failure
in the learning process, and that they are a part and parcel of the latter. Following error analysis
approach, the present study aims at analyzing third-year students’ written compositions at the
Department of Letters and the English language at university of Frères Mentouri, Constantine.
The analysis centered on identifying tense error occurrences, understanding, and explaining the
potential sources behind their production. Accordingly, it was hypothesized that the lack of
grammatical knowledge about English tenses and aspects would lead to committing errors and
improperly employ them in different contexts. To achieve the research objectives, a
questionnaire and forty essays of randomly selected students out of a population of 355 students
were used as data collection instruments. The results obtained from an in-depth scrutiny of the
participants’ errors and the classification thereof ,by adopting the surface strategy taxonomy
suggested by Dulay, Burt, and krashen (1982) revealed that the most recurrent errors committed
in the students’ writing are related to the use of the present perfect tense , present progressive
tense ,and past simple tense . Furthermore, the results showed that the majority of tense errors
are mostly attributed to the mother tongue interference ; in other words, the influence of Arabic
grammatical tenses on the English ones. The rest of errors were related to subject-verb
agreement and wrong verb forms ; these are clearly intralingual errors due to incomplete
learning of the English verb tenses. Hence , it is recommended that students need to completely
cut out their first language in an English learning context and that teachers should maximize
the students’ exposure to more formal tasks to help them get rid of transferring their linguistic
old habits into English and enhance their comprehension of all the English tenses . In
conclusion, some limitations of the study have been outlined, so as to offer guidance on how
future researches can refine the current research area. |
| Diplome : |
Master 2 |
| Permalink : |
https://bu.umc.edu.dz/master/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=13231 |
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An Error Analysis of English Verb-Tenses and Aspects in Adverbial Clauses of Time in Students’ Academic Writing The Case of Third Year BA Students of English at Frères Mentouri University of Constantine
