Tuesday 8 September 2015

Causes of Grammatical Errors in English Language

Probably, the major cause of grammatical errors in the selected Nigerian newspaper is due to the inability of the user of the language to master the rules of English grammar.   
According to Gregory, M.C (2000, p.35), error occurs because the language user has not mastered the operation of the grammatical structure of the language though, he has the idea.

Such linguistic incompetence is bound to result in errors in the use of the language.
Another causes of errors is the difference between the structures of words in English Language and the mother tongue (MT) of language.
Like Winkins stated: whenever the structure of the foreign language differ from the mother tongue, we can expect both difficulties in learning and errors in performance.
This is very obvious in a situation where learners of language have been exposed to their (MT) for a number of years because they tend to transfer the linguistic rules of their (MT) to target language (TL).
Awoniyi supported this idea when he says: There is the tendency for the child after many years of being exposed to his mother tongue to carry over his mother tongue spoken and written habit to the acquisition of new language (11).
Moreover, the expansion of sentences so that they became very lengthy can also lead to an errors in the use of English Language.
As Awoniyi observed, when student write in language sentences, they tend to lose direction (22). The sentences make the choice of the appropriate verb impossible.
Furthermore, the competence of classroom teacher is a factor in the learning process which cannot be overemphasized.
Many teachers of English language and other subjects as well commit errors in the use of number in agreements, preposition, punctuation, spellings and choice of words etc.
These go a long way to affect the level of competence of their student

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