Error Analysis on English Writing by Ninth-Grade Students---A Case Study in Linping No。3 Middle School

Abstract As is known to all, writing is one of the four basic language skills。 However, English writing, to some extent, has been a weak point in junior middle schools’ English learning and teaching。 Students always make lots of errors in their compositions, but both teachers and students don’t attach enough importance to those errors and can’t deal with them properly。 

Nowadays, there are many studies of Error Analysis on English writing of second language learners, yet studies on writing errors in junior middle school are still limited。 Therefore, this study attempts to make an analysis on errors in ninth-grade students’ English writing by adopting the five steps of Error Analysis。 This thesis takes the junior three students from Linping No。3 Middle School as the research subjects, a writing task and a questionnaire as the main instruments。 The author chooses 44 students form Class 7, Grade 9 and conduct the research on them。 Based on the analysis of the errors in the students’ writing samples, the author classifies those typical and frequent errors into different types, namely: the incorrect use of singular & plural forms of nouns, incorrect use of verbs, incorrect use of articles, incorrect use of prepositions, Chinglish and other errors。 In addition, the main causes of the errors mainly include the intralingual errors influenced by the target language and the interlingual errors interfered by the native language。 Finally, together with the analysis on the results of the questionnaire, the author further puts forward some pedagogical suggestions, hoping to help teachers improve the teaching of English writing in junior middle school。 74223

Key words: junior students; English writing; Error Analysis; English teaching 

初三学生英语写作错误分析——以临平三中为例

摘要众所周知，写作是语言学习中的四项基本语言技能之一。然而从某种程度上来说，英语写作一直以来都是初中英语学习和教学的薄弱环节。学生们总是会在他们的作文当中出现各种各样的错误，但是英语老师和同学们并没有对它们引起足够的重视，同时也没能妥善处理这些错误。

现如今，对二语学习者写作中出现的错误研究不在少数，然而针对初中学生英语写作的错误研究却依然有限。因此本研究基于错误分析理论的五个步骤，尝试研究了初三学生英语写作当中出现的一些错误。本研究以临平三中初三年级的学生为研究对象，以一次英语写作练习和问卷调查为主要研究工具。作者收集了九年七班44名学生的英语作文，对作文样本当中出现的各种错误加以分析，并将这些频繁、典型的错误进行分类，即：单复数的错误使用、动词的错误使用、冠词的错误使用、介词的错误使用，中式英语以及其他错误。另外，造成这些错误的主要原因包括受目的语影响的语内错误和由母语干扰引起的语际错误。在错误分析的基础上，本研究还结合了调查问卷的结果，并根据初中英语写作教学现状进一步提出了一些教学建议，希望能有助于提高初中英语写作教学。

毕业论文关键词：初三学生；英语写作；错误分析；写作教学

Contents

Chapter One Introduction 1

1。1 Background of the Study 1

1。2 Purpose and Significance of the Study 2

1。3 An Outline of the Paper 2

Chapter Two Literature Review 3

2。1 Definition of Errors 3

2。2 Classification of Errors