Exploring Grammatical Errors in ESL Students English Writings at University Level

Abstract

The main objective of the present research was to explore the most common errors in English writing of BS level ESL students in District Rahim Yar Khan. The fifteen assignments of the fifteen BS level ESL students were examined for data collection. The aspects of grammar analyzed in the assignments were punctuations, spellings, adverbs, adjectives, nouns, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, articles, tense, pluralization, suffix and prefix. The findings of this qualitative research explored twelve types of grammatical errors committed by the ESL students. The total number of errors committed by the students were one hundred-fifty that were committed in punctuations, spellings, adverbs, adjectives, nouns, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, articles, tense, pluralization, suffix and prefix. The research findings display that students face problems in making correct form of sentences. The research findings were drawn from the analysis of the collected data that was analyzed statistically by using Microsoft Excel to explore the grammatical errors, particularly concentrating on most common errors in the English writing. The results were presented in figures; in the end the researchers give some valuable recommendations that will help students to avoid committing grammatical errors in English writing.