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First language influence on second language performance: A study of common English grammatical errors among rural secondary school students

As a second language in Malaysia, English is taught to all from the pre-school level until the fifth form of the secondary school. Even though the teaching and learning of English is carried out for several years, many students still fail to acquire the language successfully at the end of their scho...

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Main Authors: Abu Bakar, Kesumawati, Abdul Hamid, Nor Zakiah, Mat Awal, Norsimah, Jalaluddin, Nor Hashimah
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Language:English
Published: Faculty of Communication and Modern Languages, Universiti Utara Malaysia 2007
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LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools
PE English
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/3259/1/Ke1.pdf
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spelling my.uum.repo.32592011-05-30T01:48:28Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/3259/ First language influence on second language performance: A study of common English grammatical errors among rural secondary school students Abu Bakar, Kesumawati Abdul Hamid, Nor Zakiah Mat Awal, Norsimah Jalaluddin, Nor Hashimah LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools PE English As a second language in Malaysia, English is taught to all from the pre-school level until the fifth form of the secondary school. Even though the teaching and learning of English is carried out for several years, many students still fail to acquire the language successfully at the end of their schooling, which in turn jeopardizes their chances of future employment. After being exposed to the language for eleven years, students, particularly those from the rural areas, are found to be linguistically incompetent and unable to communicate successfully in the target language. The question now is why has this issue arisen. This paper attempts to share some insights into the issue of incompetency in English among rural secondary school students in Kulai, Johor. It reports an analysis of common errors made by three hundred second language learners in the acquisition of Subject-Verb Agreement, Tenses and Relative Pronouns. Using a combination of Norrish’s approach to conducting Error analysis and Contrastive Analysis, initial analysis of the common errors revealed syntactical intra-lingual interference from the first language. This paper will present a comparative linguistic analysis of the syntactical structures of the two languages in our attempt to explain and offer insights into learners’ difficulties in acquiring the target language. Faculty of Communication and Modern Languages, Universiti Utara Malaysia 2007 Book Section PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/3259/1/Ke1.pdf Abu Bakar, Kesumawati and Abdul Hamid, Nor Zakiah and Mat Awal, Norsimah and Jalaluddin, Nor Hashimah (2007) First language influence on second language performance: A study of common English grammatical errors among rural secondary school students. In: The Second Biennial International Conference on Teaching and Learning of English in Asia : Exploring New Frontiers (TELiA2), 14-16 June 2007, Holiday Villa Beach & Spa Resort, Langkawi. Faculty of Communication and Modern Languages, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, pp. 1-13. ISBN 978-983-42061-2-3 http://staf.uum.edu.my/tleia2/
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
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continent Asia
country Malaysia
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language English
topic LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools
PE English
spellingShingle LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools
PE English
Abu Bakar, Kesumawati
Abdul Hamid, Nor Zakiah
Mat Awal, Norsimah
Jalaluddin, Nor Hashimah
First language influence on second language performance: A study of common English grammatical errors among rural secondary school students
description As a second language in Malaysia, English is taught to all from the pre-school level until the fifth form of the secondary school. Even though the teaching and learning of English is carried out for several years, many students still fail to acquire the language successfully at the end of their schooling, which in turn jeopardizes their chances of future employment. After being exposed to the language for eleven years, students, particularly those from the rural areas, are found to be linguistically incompetent and unable to communicate successfully in the target language. The question now is why has this issue arisen. This paper attempts to share some insights into the issue of incompetency in English among rural secondary school students in Kulai, Johor. It reports an analysis of common errors made by three hundred second language learners in the acquisition of Subject-Verb Agreement, Tenses and Relative Pronouns. Using a combination of Norrish’s approach to conducting Error analysis and Contrastive Analysis, initial analysis of the common errors revealed syntactical intra-lingual interference from the first language. This paper will present a comparative linguistic analysis of the syntactical structures of the two languages in our attempt to explain and offer insights into learners’ difficulties in acquiring the target language.
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author Abu Bakar, Kesumawati
Abdul Hamid, Nor Zakiah
Mat Awal, Norsimah
Jalaluddin, Nor Hashimah
author_facet Abu Bakar, Kesumawati
Abdul Hamid, Nor Zakiah
Mat Awal, Norsimah
Jalaluddin, Nor Hashimah
author_sort Abu Bakar, Kesumawati
title First language influence on second language performance: A study of common English grammatical errors among rural secondary school students
title_short First language influence on second language performance: A study of common English grammatical errors among rural secondary school students
title_full First language influence on second language performance: A study of common English grammatical errors among rural secondary school students
title_fullStr First language influence on second language performance: A study of common English grammatical errors among rural secondary school students
title_full_unstemmed First language influence on second language performance: A study of common English grammatical errors among rural secondary school students
title_sort first language influence on second language performance: a study of common english grammatical errors among rural secondary school students
publisher Faculty of Communication and Modern Languages, Universiti Utara Malaysia
publishDate 2007
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/3259/1/Ke1.pdf
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