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Dube, Mbono Vision

 
9783848436668: The Role of English Skills Courses in Syntactic Error Reduction: A Case Study of Baraton University Students
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ISBN 10 : 3848436663 ISBN 13 : 9783848436668
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

English Skills Courses are important requirements for the attainment of a degree at the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton. This study was set to establish the impact of these English Skills Courses on the written syntactic construction by university students. Focus was on syntactic errors because such errors mar the intended meaning of the sentence, paragraph or essay. The assumption of this study was that English Skills Courses help the students to lessen syntactic errors in their written work and that syntactic errors are the most recurrent errors made by the students. The theoretical framework employed in this study was based on the input hypothesis, the error analysis, and the inter-language theory. A purposive sampling method was used to select a target group of 15 students and a control group of 15 students. The methods used were tests and observation schedules. Essays written for placement tests, mid-quarter exams, continuous assessment tests and final exams were collected and analysed for syntactic errors. The analysis included checking how frequent the errors occur and the trend they take after instruction.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

English Skills Courses are important requirements for the attainment of a degree at the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton. This study was set to establish the impact of these English Skills Courses on the written syntactic construction by university students. Focus was on syntactic errors because such errors mar the intended meaning of the sentence, paragraph or essay. The assumption of this study was that English Skills Courses help the students to lessen syntactic errors in their written work and that syntactic errors are the most recurrent errors made by the students. The theoretical framework employed in this study was based on the input hypothesis, the error analysis, and the inter-language theory. A purposive sampling method was used to select a target group of 15 students and a control group of 15 students. The methods used were tests and observation schedules. Essays written for placement tests, mid-quarter exams, continuous assessment tests and final exams were collected and analysed for syntactic errors. The analysis included checking how frequent the errors occur and the trend they take after instruction.

Biographie de l'auteur

Mbono Vision Dube currently lectures in the Languages Deprtment at Zambian Open University in Lusaka, Zambia. She studied Masters in Languages and Linguistics at Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya. Dube did her BA degree in English at Andrews University, Solusi Campus, Zimbabwe. she has vast experince inn teaching and lecturing in different countries

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3848436663
ISBN 13 
9783848436668
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
132
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