The Acquisition of the Perfect Progressive Construction in English by Management Students: A Study in Error Analysis
Leena Jadhav
Research Scholar, Department of English, Shivaji University, Kolhapur
Tripti Karekatti
Associate Professor, Department of English, Shivaji University, Kolhapur
Keywords: Error analysis, interlingual errors, intralingual errors, language acquisition
Abstract
Error analysis has been one of the most significant concepts in ESL studies and has stimulated curiosity of researchers hitherto as it provides an empirical evidence to the study undertaken. The present study aims to study the acquisition of the English perfect progressive construction by the first year management students whose first language is Marathi. The data for the present research is based on a grammaticality judgment test. The result of data received from the test is calculated using the SPSS software. The tool of error analysis has been used to analyze the linguistic behaviour of the participants in the present paper. An effort is made to trace the interlingual errors made by the second language learners in the light of the comparative study of the first language (i.e. Marathi) and the second language (i.e. English).
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