TITLE: ERROR ANALYSIS IN WRITINGS OF ESL STUDENTS AT VOCATIONAL INSTITUTES WITHIN MUZAFFARABAD

Abstract

The study is a contemplation of errors committed in the domain of formal essay writing by the students of vocational institutions within city of Muzzafarabad. Researchers collected the data from two vocational institutions at the city of Muzaffarabad. For the collection of the data researchers used essay writing task. A total of nineteen respondents participated in the study. For the analysis of the data, the study employs the framework of Corder & Ellis (1975) to classify the errors into different categories. Then the frequency of those errors is examined. The study found that errors of omission were most common among the students. Moreover, other forms of errors like mis-ordering in the spelling, addition, false hypothesis, overgeneralization of a learnt rule, false application of rules are found to be present in students’ responses.  Moreover, the study supplements with the suggestions which could be considered to resolve those errors in a systematic way.