GRAMMATICAL ERRORS COMMITTED BY ONLINE STUDENTS: A CASE STUDY OF VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY OF PAKISTAN
Journal Title: Academic Research International - Year 2019, Vol 10, Issue 1
Abstract
Writing is connected to grammatical understanding inasmuch as it is a process of combining words into sentences and arranging sentences to construct paragraphs. Yet, the fact that the first and foreign languages’ rules are dissimilar seems to cause learners to commit errors in English writing. The paper explores the grammatical errors committed by the online students in English course, i.e. Business and Technical English (ENG201) of Virtual University of Pakistan (VUP). These students mainly focus on the concepts of management sciences and computer sciences. Consequently, they fail to concentrate on the grammatical errors which are the important part of their writing skills. The data have been collected from 200 students of Business and Technical English (ENG201) Course during the Fall 2018. The random sample technique has been utilized for descriptive analysis from online creative writings in the Graded Discussion Boards (GDBs) conducted in the internal examination system of Virtual University of Pakistan. The researcher identified and evaluated the errors committed by the students and presented these with the help of tables and bar charts. The majority of the students has committed top six errors which are (1) missing comma after introductory element error, (2) wrong tense or verb error, (3) capitalization error, (4) wrong word/ phrase, (5) fused Sentence, (6) missing comma in a compound sentence. Moreover, top six errors are up to fifty nine percent and on the students’ side majority of the students commit three to four errors. Finally, certain recommendations have been put forward for effective writing skills to the students and the teachers in virtual mode of education.
Authors and Affiliations
Muhammad Asif, Deng Zhiyong, Rana Imran Ali, Maria Nisar
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