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Error analysis in academic writing: a case of international postgraduate students in Malaysia

This paper examines the different types of writing errors performed by 16 international postgraduate students undertaking an intensive English course at a public university in Malaysia. It was mandatory for international postgraduate students who obtained less than IELTS Band 6 to undertake an Inten...

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Main Authors: Amiri, Fatemeh, Puteh, Marlia
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Language:English
Published: Australian International Academic Centre 2017
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LB2300 Higher Education
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spelling my.utm.807742019-06-27T06:23:58Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/80774/ Error analysis in academic writing: a case of international postgraduate students in Malaysia Amiri, Fatemeh Puteh, Marlia LB2300 Higher Education This paper examines the different types of writing errors performed by 16 international postgraduate students undertaking an intensive English course at a public university in Malaysia. It was mandatory for international postgraduate students who obtained less than IELTS Band 6 to undertake an Intensive English Course (IEC) offered by the University, prior to entering their respective faculties’ academic programs. The students were required to write a 3-5 page term paper assignment on a topic related to their field of study. Mixed methodology approach was employed to examine and analyze corpus of students’ term papers. The errors in the term papers were identified and classified accordingly. The results of the study revealed that four most common English language errors committed by the participants were sentence structure, articles, punctuation and capitalization. This study also shed light on the manner in which students assumed the rules of English to that of their native language. Such insight is useful for both instructors and students because it provides significant information on the building blocks experienced by English language learners in academic writing. Australian International Academic Centre 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/80774/1/MarliaPuteh2017_ErrorAnalysisinAcademicWriting.pdf Amiri, Fatemeh and Puteh, Marlia (2017) Error analysis in academic writing: a case of international postgraduate students in Malaysia. Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 8 (4). pp. 141-145. ISSN 2203-4714 http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.8n.4p.141 DOI:10.7575/aiac.alls.v.8n.4p.141
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Amiri, Fatemeh
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Error analysis in academic writing: a case of international postgraduate students in Malaysia
description This paper examines the different types of writing errors performed by 16 international postgraduate students undertaking an intensive English course at a public university in Malaysia. It was mandatory for international postgraduate students who obtained less than IELTS Band 6 to undertake an Intensive English Course (IEC) offered by the University, prior to entering their respective faculties’ academic programs. The students were required to write a 3-5 page term paper assignment on a topic related to their field of study. Mixed methodology approach was employed to examine and analyze corpus of students’ term papers. The errors in the term papers were identified and classified accordingly. The results of the study revealed that four most common English language errors committed by the participants were sentence structure, articles, punctuation and capitalization. This study also shed light on the manner in which students assumed the rules of English to that of their native language. Such insight is useful for both instructors and students because it provides significant information on the building blocks experienced by English language learners in academic writing.
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author Amiri, Fatemeh
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title Error analysis in academic writing: a case of international postgraduate students in Malaysia
title_short Error analysis in academic writing: a case of international postgraduate students in Malaysia
title_full Error analysis in academic writing: a case of international postgraduate students in Malaysia
title_fullStr Error analysis in academic writing: a case of international postgraduate students in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Error analysis in academic writing: a case of international postgraduate students in Malaysia
title_sort error analysis in academic writing: a case of international postgraduate students in malaysia
publisher Australian International Academic Centre
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url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/80774/1/MarliaPuteh2017_ErrorAnalysisinAcademicWriting.pdf
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.8n.4p.141
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