GRAMMATICAL ERRORS AND MENTAL ASSOCIATIONS: A STUDY IN EFL

Authors

  • Muhammad Athar Khurshid Assistant Professor, Govt. Graduate College Model Town, Lahore
  • Zainab Tasneem Department of Education and Psychology, Kohat University of Science and Technology
  • Fatima Riaza Department of Education, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur
  • Latiba Khanam Department of Educational Training, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur

Keywords:

Interlanguage, Fossil, Error Analysis, L1 interference, Overgeneralization, Transfer, Tense, Aspect

Abstract

This paper describes some cognitive strategies EFL learners adopt in their usage of English. The researchers designed a translation test from Urdu to English and administered it in a grade-XIII class of a public-sector college. They tried to access the reasons for the participants’ errors by three techniques: (1) contrastive analysis of the chunks of faulty translations; (2) interviews with the learners about the reasons for their errors; (3) comparing every participant’s translation of different sentences. The data was interpreted in the light of the theory of Interlanguage. In findings, the most unexpected source of errors was learners’ fixations.
 

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Published

2021-07-30

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Muhammad Athar Khurshid, Zainab Tasneem, Fatima Riaza, & Latiba Khanam. (2021). GRAMMATICAL ERRORS AND MENTAL ASSOCIATIONS: A STUDY IN EFL. Pakistan Journal of Society, Education and Language (PJSEL), 7(2), 318–335. Retrieved from https://www.pjsel.jehanf.com/index.php/journal/article/view/691

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2021): Vol 7 (2) June/July, 2021

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