This study provides a comprehensive analysis of second-language learners’ linguistic errors by proficiency level. For this purpose, I conducted an empirical study using learners’ written data that explored the types of errors made by students at different proficiency levels: A1, A2, B1, and B2. More specifically, this study attempts to describe the types of grammatical errors by proficiency levels that occur in written production. I analyzed students’ writings for errors utilizing the scheme proposed by the Center for English Corpus Linguistics at Université Catholique de Louvain. The results reveal that first, the most prominent grammatical error categories in Korean students" essays were lexis (843) and article (835) errors. Second, there are no significant differences in the frequency of grammatical errors among the four groups (p > .05). Lastly, the hit ratio indicates that 92.2% (83 cases) of the 90 total cases in the lower-proficiency group were correctly classified into the lower-proficiency group, although the logistic regression model does not provide statistically significant results. Lastly, I discuss several pedagogical implications.
This study provides a comprehensive analysis of second-language learners’ linguistic errors by proficiency level. For this purpose, I conducted an empirical study using learners’ written data that explored the types of errors made by students at different proficiency levels: A1, A2, B1, and B2. More specifically, this study attempts to describe the types of grammatical errors by proficiency levels that occur in written production. I analyzed students’ writings for errors utilizing the scheme proposed by the Center for English Corpus Linguistics at Université Catholique de Louvain. The results reveal that first, the most prominent grammatical error categories in Korean students" essays were lexis (843) and article (835) errors. Second, there are no significant differences in the frequency of grammatical errors among the four groups (p > .05). Lastly, the hit ratio indicates that 92.2% (83 cases) of the 90 total cases in the lower-proficiency group were correctly classified into the lower-proficiency group, although the logistic regression model does not provide statistically significant results. Lastly, I discuss several pedagogical implications.
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