Contrastive error analysis of Turkish EFL learners in writing

https://doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v2i4.429

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contrastive analysis, error analysis, developmental errors, interference errors

Abstract

The aim of this study is to find out to what extent Turkish EFL students make interlingual (interference) and intralingual (developmental) errors in writing at the university level. The mid-term and final examination papers of 50 Turkish EFL students were taken and their errors were categorized into interference and developmental errors. The results of our research have shown that they made a mean of %14.6 interference errors.  Thus, this proportion does not confirm the contrastive analysis hypothesis claiming that all errors are due to the negative transfer from the mother tongue. On the other hand, they made a mean of %85.4 developmental errors which are not related to L1. So the results of T?Test indicate that Turkish EFL students made significantly more (p<.001) developmental errors.

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Published

2020-12-26

How to Cite

GÖK, Şahin. (2020). Contrastive error analysis of Turkish EFL learners in writing. International Journal of Language and Literary Studies, 2(4), 236–242. https://doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v2i4.429