Typical errors of Polish advanced EFL learner writers

(basic statistics & examples based on the error-tagged sample of the PICLE corpus: 77 essays / 52,218 words)


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Error category

Frequency

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Total errors

3787

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Total errors of commission

3004

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Total errors of omission

782

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all formal errors (morphology, spelling)

325

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all grammar errors

1269

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article errors (misuse + omission + redundant uses)

640

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all pronoun errors (misuse + omission + redundant uses)

189

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all verb errors (incl. auxiliaries)

220

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tense errors

113

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all lexicogrammatical errors

235

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all misuses of dependent prepositions

125

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all lexical errors (words, collocations, phrases, linking expressions)

991

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semantic misuses of single words (incl. collocates, independent prepositions)

567

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phraseological errors (incl. idioms and phrasal verbs)

345

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redundant / missing / misplaced words (excl. articles and pronouns)

250

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redundant word(s) (excl. redundant articles and pronouns)

120

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all punctuation errors

580

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missing punctuation

336

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redundant punctuation

128

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BASIC HELP:

1. Click the 'Show sample' link to view a concordance of up to 50 lines with the chosen type of error. The error concordancer results window will allow you to:

a) re-sort the result, e.g. by the node error;
b) adjust the left and right co-text span.

2. The dark red items in the Text column are the node errors (other errors are shown in pink). Click on a node to search the entire PICLE corpus (330,000 words) for occurrences of the node error string. If necessary, adjust (restrict, extend etc) your query in the results window.

3. The parentheses "(" and ")" in the original learner texts have been converted to braces "{" and "}" .


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Last update: 2005-01-08