Grammatical gender misselection and related errors in French writing by Malaysian students
This study aimed to identify grammatical gender misselection errors made by Malaysian students in learning French as a foreign language with regard to writing skills. The study utilized quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection. Data analysis was done by applying the definition of miss...
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| author | Abdul Halim, Hazlina Abd Rahim, Normaliza Abdul Jabar, Mohd Azidan Abdul Aziz, Adi Yasran |
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| description | This study aimed to identify grammatical gender misselection errors made by Malaysian students in learning French as a foreign language with regard to writing skills. The study utilized quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection. Data analysis was done by applying the definition of misselection errors by Dulay, Burt and Krashen (1982). A total of 40 subjects participated in this study after 100 hours of learning French. The task consisted of writing two short essays by the subjects, in which they contained different elements of grammatical gender. The results showed that students made misselection errors of French prepositions, verbs, adjectives, articles, and lexis. |
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| spelling | upm-243352015-10-21T07:38:28Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/24335/ Grammatical gender misselection and related errors in French writing by Malaysian students Abdul Halim, Hazlina Abd Rahim, Normaliza Abdul Jabar, Mohd Azidan Abdul Aziz, Adi Yasran This study aimed to identify grammatical gender misselection errors made by Malaysian students in learning French as a foreign language with regard to writing skills. The study utilized quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection. Data analysis was done by applying the definition of misselection errors by Dulay, Burt and Krashen (1982). A total of 40 subjects participated in this study after 100 hours of learning French. The task consisted of writing two short essays by the subjects, in which they contained different elements of grammatical gender. The results showed that students made misselection errors of French prepositions, verbs, adjectives, articles, and lexis. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2011-03 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/24335/1/84.%20Grammatical%20Gender%20Misselection%20and%20Related%20Errors%20in%20French.pdf Abdul Halim, Hazlina and Abd Rahim, Normaliza and Abdul Jabar, Mohd Azidan and Abdul Aziz, Adi Yasran (2011) Grammatical gender misselection and related errors in French writing by Malaysian students. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 19 (1). pp. 173-181. ISSN 0128-7702; ESSN: 2231-8534 http://www.pertanika.upm.edu.my/Pertanika%20PAPERS/JSSH%20Vol.%2019%20(1)%20Mar.%202011/%2318%20Pg%20173-181.pdf |
| spellingShingle | Abdul Halim, Hazlina Abd Rahim, Normaliza Abdul Jabar, Mohd Azidan Abdul Aziz, Adi Yasran Grammatical gender misselection and related errors in French writing by Malaysian students |
| title | Grammatical gender misselection and related errors in French writing by Malaysian students |
| title_full | Grammatical gender misselection and related errors in French writing by Malaysian students |
| title_fullStr | Grammatical gender misselection and related errors in French writing by Malaysian students |
| title_full_unstemmed | Grammatical gender misselection and related errors in French writing by Malaysian students |
| title_short | Grammatical gender misselection and related errors in French writing by Malaysian students |
| title_sort | grammatical gender misselection and related errors in french writing by malaysian students |
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