Interference in learning English: Grammatical errors in English essay writing among rural Malay secondary school students in Malaysia
The purpose of this article is to present an analysis of interference effect, a factor that plays an important role in inhibiting the acquisition of English among young Malay learners in Malaysian schools. The data substantiating the discussion throughout this article came from an empirical study...
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2007
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| author | Marlyna Maros, Tan, Kim Hua Khazriyati Salehuddin, |
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| description | The purpose of this article is to present an analysis of interference effect, a factor that plays an
important role in inhibiting the acquisition of English among young Malay learners in
Malaysian schools. The data substantiating the discussion throughout this article came from
an empirical study of errors in essays written by Form One students in six schools in
Malaysia. The findings of the study show that despite having gone through six years of
learning English in school environment, the learners are still having difficulty in using correct
English grammar in their writings. The three most frequent errors are: 1) the use of articles, 2)
subject-verb agreement, and 3) copula ‘be’ |
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| spelling | ukm.eprints-15392016-12-14T06:29:44Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1539/ Interference in learning English: Grammatical errors in English essay writing among rural Malay secondary school students in Malaysia Marlyna Maros, Tan, Kim Hua Khazriyati Salehuddin, The purpose of this article is to present an analysis of interference effect, a factor that plays an important role in inhibiting the acquisition of English among young Malay learners in Malaysian schools. The data substantiating the discussion throughout this article came from an empirical study of errors in essays written by Form One students in six schools in Malaysia. The findings of the study show that despite having gone through six years of learning English in school environment, the learners are still having difficulty in using correct English grammar in their writings. The three most frequent errors are: 1) the use of articles, 2) subject-verb agreement, and 3) copula ‘be’ Journal of Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2007 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1539/1/marlyna07.pdf Marlyna Maros, and Tan, Kim Hua and Khazriyati Salehuddin, (2007) Interference in learning English: Grammatical errors in English essay writing among rural Malay secondary school students in Malaysia. e-BANGI: Jurnal Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan, 2 (2). p. 15. ISSN 1823-884x http://www.ukm.my/e-bangi/ |
| spellingShingle | Marlyna Maros, Tan, Kim Hua Khazriyati Salehuddin, Interference in learning English: Grammatical errors in English essay writing among rural Malay secondary school students in Malaysia |
| title | Interference in learning English: Grammatical errors in
English essay writing among rural Malay secondary school
students in Malaysia |
| title_full | Interference in learning English: Grammatical errors in
English essay writing among rural Malay secondary school
students in Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Interference in learning English: Grammatical errors in
English essay writing among rural Malay secondary school
students in Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Interference in learning English: Grammatical errors in
English essay writing among rural Malay secondary school
students in Malaysia |
| title_short | Interference in learning English: Grammatical errors in
English essay writing among rural Malay secondary school
students in Malaysia |
| title_sort | interference in learning english grammatical errors in english essay writing among rural malay secondary school students in malaysia |
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