An analysis of speech errors of English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) learners at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)

Abstract: This study examined errors made in grammar in the speech transcripts of 15 EOP learners. The errors were divided into 9 sub-categories: wrong use of nouns, countable use of uncountable nouns, nouns used as verbs, wrong use of prepositions in phrases, wrong addition of prepositions, wrong...

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Main Authors:	Ahamad Shah, Mohamed Ismail, Abd. Karim, Norfazlika
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	© IDOSI Publications, 2014 2014
Subjects:	P Philology. Linguistics
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spelling	iium-469932017-12-22T08:05:09Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/46993/ An analysis of speech errors of English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) learners at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) Ahamad Shah, Mohamed Ismail Abd. Karim, Norfazlika P Philology. Linguistics Abstract: This study examined errors made in grammar in the speech transcripts of 15 EOP learners. The errors were divided into 9 sub-categories: wrong use of nouns, countable use of uncountable nouns, nouns used as verbs, wrong use of prepositions in phrases, wrong addition of prepositions, wrong use of verbs, wrong use of phrasal verbs, wrong use of adjectives ending in –ed and –ing and redundant expressions. An analysis of the speech errors indicates that preposition was the most frequent type of grammatical error made by the learners. In addition, intralingual transfer was found to be the most prominent source of error. Key words: Error analysis Grammatical errors Interlingual errors Intralingual errors © IDOSI Publications, 2014 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/46993/1/46993_-_An_analysis_of_Speech_Errors_of_EOP.pdf Ahamad Shah, Mohamed Ismail and Abd. Karim, Norfazlika (2014) An analysis of speech errors of English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) learners at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research, 20 (20). pp. 58-66. ISSN 1990-9233 E-ISSN 1999-8147 http://www.idosi.org/mejsr/mejsr.htm DOI: 10.5829/idosi.mejsr.2014.20.lcl.209
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spellingShingle	P Philology. Linguistics Ahamad Shah, Mohamed Ismail Abd. Karim, Norfazlika An analysis of speech errors of English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) learners at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
description	Abstract: This study examined errors made in grammar in the speech transcripts of 15 EOP learners. The errors were divided into 9 sub-categories: wrong use of nouns, countable use of uncountable nouns, nouns used as verbs, wrong use of prepositions in phrases, wrong addition of prepositions, wrong use of verbs, wrong use of phrasal verbs, wrong use of adjectives ending in –ed and –ing and redundant expressions. An analysis of the speech errors indicates that preposition was the most frequent type of grammatical error made by the learners. In addition, intralingual transfer was found to be the most prominent source of error. Key words: Error analysis Grammatical errors Interlingual errors Intralingual errors
format	Article
author	Ahamad Shah, Mohamed Ismail Abd. Karim, Norfazlika
author_facet	Ahamad Shah, Mohamed Ismail Abd. Karim, Norfazlika
author_sort	Ahamad Shah, Mohamed Ismail
title	An analysis of speech errors of English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) learners at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
title_short	An analysis of speech errors of English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) learners at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
title_full	An analysis of speech errors of English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) learners at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
title_fullStr	An analysis of speech errors of English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) learners at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
title_full_unstemmed	An analysis of speech errors of English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) learners at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
title_sort	analysis of speech errors of english for occupational purposes (eop) learners at the international islamic university malaysia (iium)
publisher	© IDOSI Publications, 2014
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An analysis of speech errors of English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) learners at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)

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