Study On Types Of Errors And Causes Of Errors In English Writing By Senior Students In Rural Areas

The thesis aims at an investigation into students' errors or mistakes in their English writing. Those students interviewed in the survey are studying at high school in rural areas. Through the investigation, the paper tries to answer the following four questions faced by English teachers and their students from a high school in the countryside. The first question is what types of errors are made by those students; the second one is what the causes of their errors are; the third one is how local English teachers as well as their students treat students' errors in their writing; and the last one is what English teachers and their students should do with students' errors.With these questions, the author of the paper takes several steps to conduct the investigate students' errors which are committed by these students in the writing.Step one Choose 6,00 students' English writing from their daily composition, diary, exams, etc. what is more, the opinions English teachers and their students hold about students' errors are noted down through the questionnaires and interview.Step Two Group students' errors based on the date from the investigation and on the application of error analysis students' errors can be divided into three categories, namely errors of vocabulary, grammar as well as texts from which specific errors are grouped.Step Three The causes of errors in students' English writing are stated from different aspects by apply the theories of analysis, error analysis and interlanguage. The research shows that it is Intralingual transfer and Interlingual transfer that get students to make errors in their English writing.Step Four Some strategies and teaching methods are recommended to help students and teachers with their writing and composition teaching.