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Misselection and related errors in Malay writing among French students

Error analysis is one of the ways to study and correct learners’ mistakes in vocabulary and syntax in the process of leaning a foreign language. Hence, this study aims to analyse misselection and related errors made by French students in their learning Malay as a foreign language with regard to the...

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Main Authors: Abdul Halim, Hazlina, Ang, Lay Hoon, Majtanova, Miroslava, Mansor, Nor Shahila
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Published: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2016
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spelling my.upm.eprints.503742017-02-28T05:30:46Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/50374/ Misselection and related errors in Malay writing among French students Abdul Halim, Hazlina Ang, Lay Hoon Majtanova, Miroslava Mansor, Nor Shahila Error analysis is one of the ways to study and correct learners’ mistakes in vocabulary and syntax in the process of leaning a foreign language. Hence, this study aims to analyse misselection and related errors made by French students in their learning Malay as a foreign language with regard to the writing skills. The study utilized quantitative and qualitative method of data collection, by applying the definition of misselection errors by Dulay, Burt and Krashen (1982) and misformation errors by James (1998) to the analysis. A total of 10 French respondents participated in this study. The task consisted of the administration of the four writing task. The study discovered the most dominant error produced by French students in their Malay written tasks were misselection on lexis (52%), misselection error on affix/ suffix (16%) and misselection errors on the phrases (11%). As a result of this preliminary study, it is hoped that learners can acquire a better understanding of the Malay language; and future study can help classify the errors that learners made and how they could overcome them. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/50374/1/Misselection%20and%20related%20errors%20in%20Malay%20writing%20among%20French%20students.pdf Abdul Halim, Hazlina and Ang, Lay Hoon and Majtanova, Miroslava and Mansor, Nor Shahila (2016) Misselection and related errors in Malay writing among French students. Journal of Language and Communication, 3 (2). pp. 121-132. ISSN 2289-649X http://www.fbmk.upm.edu.my/sp/page/2861/jlc_bm
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description Error analysis is one of the ways to study and correct learners’ mistakes in vocabulary and syntax in the process of leaning a foreign language. Hence, this study aims to analyse misselection and related errors made by French students in their learning Malay as a foreign language with regard to the writing skills. The study utilized quantitative and qualitative method of data collection, by applying the definition of misselection errors by Dulay, Burt and Krashen (1982) and misformation errors by James (1998) to the analysis. A total of 10 French respondents participated in this study. The task consisted of the administration of the four writing task. The study discovered the most dominant error produced by French students in their Malay written tasks were misselection on lexis (52%), misselection error on affix/ suffix (16%) and misselection errors on the phrases (11%). As a result of this preliminary study, it is hoped that learners can acquire a better understanding of the Malay language; and future study can help classify the errors that learners made and how they could overcome them.
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author Abdul Halim, Hazlina
Ang, Lay Hoon
Majtanova, Miroslava
Mansor, Nor Shahila
spellingShingle Abdul Halim, Hazlina
Ang, Lay Hoon
Majtanova, Miroslava
Mansor, Nor Shahila
Misselection and related errors in Malay writing among French students
author_facet Abdul Halim, Hazlina
Ang, Lay Hoon
Majtanova, Miroslava
Mansor, Nor Shahila
author_sort Abdul Halim, Hazlina
title Misselection and related errors in Malay writing among French students
title_short Misselection and related errors in Malay writing among French students
title_full Misselection and related errors in Malay writing among French students
title_fullStr Misselection and related errors in Malay writing among French students
title_full_unstemmed Misselection and related errors in Malay writing among French students
title_sort misselection and related errors in malay writing among french students
publisher Universiti Putra Malaysia Press
publishDate 2016
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/50374/1/Misselection%20and%20related%20errors%20in%20Malay%20writing%20among%20French%20students.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/50374/
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