Analysis of errors in subject-verb agreement among Malaysian ESL learners
This article analyses errors on subject-verb agreement among post-graduate teacher trainees in a college in Malaysia. Twenty postgraduate (English Language Studies) students from a teachers’ training college from the northern state of Malaysia participated in the study. The study examined errors in...
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| description | This article analyses errors on subject-verb agreement among post-graduate teacher trainees in a college in Malaysia. Twenty postgraduate (English Language Studies)
students from a teachers’ training college from the northern state of Malaysia participated in the study. The study examined errors in 5 types of subject-verb agreements: person,number, coordinated subject, indefinite expression of amount and also notional agreement and proximity. 2 types of written compositions (argumentative and factual)were analyzed to identify the problems in writing grammatically correct subject-verb agreement by the students. The results of the study reveal that the majority of the students commit errors in subject-verb agreement, especially in SVA of number followed by SVA of person. The students were found to avoid using the complex sub-rules of
SVA that include the agreement with coordinated subject, agreement with indefinite expressions of amount and also notional agreement and proximity. |
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| spelling | ukm.eprints-10222016-12-14T06:28:35Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1022/ Analysis of errors in subject-verb agreement among Malaysian ESL learners Siti Hamin Stapa, Mohd Mustafa Izahar, This article analyses errors on subject-verb agreement among post-graduate teacher trainees in a college in Malaysia. Twenty postgraduate (English Language Studies) students from a teachers’ training college from the northern state of Malaysia participated in the study. The study examined errors in 5 types of subject-verb agreements: person,number, coordinated subject, indefinite expression of amount and also notional agreement and proximity. 2 types of written compositions (argumentative and factual)were analyzed to identify the problems in writing grammatically correct subject-verb agreement by the students. The results of the study reveal that the majority of the students commit errors in subject-verb agreement, especially in SVA of number followed by SVA of person. The students were found to avoid using the complex sub-rules of SVA that include the agreement with coordinated subject, agreement with indefinite expressions of amount and also notional agreement and proximity. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2010 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1022/1/Siti_Hamin_Stapa.pdf Siti Hamin Stapa, and Mohd Mustafa Izahar, (2010) Analysis of errors in subject-verb agreement among Malaysian ESL learners. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 16 (1). pp. 56-73. ISSN 0128-5157 http://www.ukm.my/~ppbl/3L/3LHome.html |
| spellingShingle | Siti Hamin Stapa, Mohd Mustafa Izahar, Analysis of errors in subject-verb agreement among Malaysian ESL learners |
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| title_short | Analysis of errors in subject-verb agreement among Malaysian ESL learners |
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