A Corpus-Based Description Of Grammatical Errors In Uzbek EFL Learner Writing
Аннотация
This research describes grammatical mistakes in English writing by Uzbek learners at the upper-intermediate (B2) level, based on a small learner corpus from real essays written by students in academic lyceums and language schools in Uzbekistan. With guidelines from both corpus linguistics and second language acquisition, the study works to sort out the various recurring types of errors and their classification, demonstrating the pattern of the learners' interlanguage that has been influenced by their L1 and developmental factors. The data, totaling about 20,000 words, were checked with AntConc to bring out frequency information and concordance lines. The greatest common errors were noted in the areas of verb tense/aspect, articles, prepositions, and subject-verb agreement. A lot of these mistakes seem to come from bad habits formed by Uzbek and Russian, which don’t have some grammar rules in English. The results show the grammar difficulties for Uzbek students and can be used to make decisions about how to teach grammar, create a curriculum, and train teachers in EFL for all of Central Asia.