Errors in Writing Among Female Students at the Tertiary Level in Saudi Arabia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22217814 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarwat Un Nisa Sarwat Un Nisa, Sarwat un Nisa (King Khalid University), Siham Mousa Alhaider (0000-0002-0282-8851, King Khalid University), Saima Usmani (0000-0003-3091-4420, King Khalid University), Neelofar Hussain Wani (0000-0003-1772-3654, King Khalid University), Sharifa Asiri (King Khalid University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 150-166 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Linguistics Literature & Translation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2617-0299 • E-ISSN: 2708-0099 |
| Publisher | Al-Kindi Center for Research and Development (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.3.17 |
| OpenAlex | W4360979309 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
Writing is regarded as the most challenging skill to acquire when learning a foreign language. Extensive research into students' writing abilities is one method for understanding the challenges they face when writing. This study aims to investigate the most frequent English writing errors made by Saudi female university students at the tertiary level. The study's population comprised forty female college students. They had 45 minutes to write paragraphs on a variety of subjects. The participants in this study were selected at random and asked to compose an essay on any of the topics provided so that errors could be identified; the results were then analyzed and explained. Based on the findings, we can conclude that all 40 paragraphs of the essays written by Saudi female university students at the tertiary level contained 192 misspellings. There were 41 plural form errors, 58 comma punctuation errors, and 52 full stop punctuation errors. There were 119 instances of incorrect grammar, syntax, or word choice. The data analysis concludes that female students make numerous punctuation, syntactic, grammatical, and lexical errors, with most errors occurring in spelling and syntax. The results of this study are significant because the identified errors will have pedagogical implications when teaching writing skills to college-level English language students. This result sheds light on the areas that should be emphasized when teaching writing skills to EFL students in Saudi Arabia
Grammar · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Natural language processing · Plural · Population · Punctuation · Spelling · Syntax · Tertiary level · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Medicine · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Second Language Learning and Teaching · Artificial Intelligence
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |