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)
This is a general public sampler. The full version is here (authorized use only).
Error category |
Frequency |
View a random sample (max 50) |
| 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 |
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 "}" .
2005 © Przemysław Kaszubski
Last update: 2005-01-08