High-frequency Grammatical Errors in Academic Writings by Chinese Students in International School

• 作者: 梁硕方 于红娟 裴倩琦
• 来源期刊: 海外英语（上）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（3）
• 所属期刊栏目: 学术思潮
• 页码范围: 265-269
• 页数: 5页
• 分类号: G642
• 语种: 中文

摘要

This research investigates four categories of high-frequency grammatical errors from 45 students'academic writings via script analysis. A group of 36 students responded to a questionnaire focusing on their beliefs regarding these grammatical construc? tions. The participants are enrolled in an international school in Suzhou City. A total of 646 sentences were analyzed, among which 295 (45.7％) are inaccurate. Of the 364 errors found, most of them (64.0％) fall into the category of Subject-verb agreement, fol? lowed by subordinate clauses (28.6％);errors in English existential construction and the passive voice are a few. Also, the usage rate of subordinate clause is 42.7％, of which a large proportion was incorrect.