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The document summarizes a journal article that analyzed the written English essays of Malaysian secondary school students. The study aimed to investigate the types of errors made by Form Four students in their written work. It found that students most commonly made grammatical errors, had a relatively weak vocabulary, and struggled with English sentence structure. The conclusion was that the students had problems acquiring normal grammatical rules in English and that error analysis can help teachers identify specific language problems.

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The document summarizes a journal article that analyzed the written English essays of Malaysian secondary school students. The study aimed to investigate the types of errors made by Form Four students in their written work. It found that students most commonly made grammatical errors, had a relatively weak vocabulary, and struggled with English sentence structure. The conclusion was that the students had problems acquiring normal grammatical rules in English and that error analysis can help teachers identify specific language problems.

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Name : Sri Wahyuni Daulay

Review Journal

1. Name(s) of the
author(s) : Saadiyah Darus

2. Title of article : Error analysis of the written english essays of secondary


school students in Malaysia: A case study

3. Title of journal : European Journal of Social Sciences

4. Volume number : - 8
Issue : - 3
Year published : - 2009
Page number : - 483-495
5. Statement of the - What are the six most common errors that students
problem or isssue make in their essays?
discussed :
6. The author’s - which is to investigate the types of errors made by Form
purpose : Four students in their written work.
7. Approach or - Qualitative
methods :

Participants : - 72 Form Four students

Instrument : - written essays and Markin software

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Data analysis :
8. Hypothesis : -
9. Result(s) - The results of the study show that errors that
participants committed were basically grammatical.
The participants also had a relatively weak
vocabulary and their sentences were sometimes
incomprehensible. They committed errors in
applying sentence structure rules in the English
language. Hence, we can conclude that these
participants have problems in acquiring normal
grammatical rules in English.

conclusion - This study has shed light on the manner in which


students internalize the rules of the TL. It further shows
that EA can help the teachers to identify in a systematic
manner the specific and common language problems
students have, so that they can focus more attention on
these types of errors.

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