• Lok Raj Sharma

The present study attempts to investigate the errors in a corpus of 70 essays written by 70 bachelor first year education students studying Compulsory English as a foreign language at three community campuses in Makawanpur District, Nepal in the Academic Year 2017-2018. The instrument used for this study to cull data was students’ written essays in English language. All the students were asked to write an essay of almost 500 words on a topic “Growing Use of You Tube among College Students”. Only 70 essays that represent 40% of the total 175essays were selected through the simple random sampling lottery method. All the errors in their essays were identified and classified into different categories. The results showed that the students in this study committed sixteen common errors: noun, main verb, auxiliary verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, article, singular / plural, verb tense, sub-verb agreement, possessive, conditional sentences, punctuation, capitalization and spellings. The most committed errors at the lexical level and the syntactic level were preposition errors and addition errors with the frequency of 261 (13.14%), and 722 (36.35%) respectively. The results showed that most of students’ errors were due to the intralingual factors, because students from government schools did not have much exposure and communication in target language. Errors in the sentence structures and verb tense were normally influenced by their mother tongue interference.

English language, errors analysis, interlingual, intralingual, writing

"Error Analysis of Written English Essays: The Case of Bachelor First Year Education Students of Three Community Campuses in Makawanpur District, Nepal", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.433-440, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808366.pdf

"Error Analysis of Written English Essays: The Case of Bachelor First Year Education Students of Three Community Campuses in Makawanpur District, Nepal", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp433-440, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808366.pdf