dc.contributor.advisor | Van der Walt, J.L. | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Venter, C.J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Nkani, Madoda Douglas Sabelo | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-21T10:41:30Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-06-21T10:41:30Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1998 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10394/17812 | |
dc.description | Thesis (MA)--PU for CHE, 1999. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The primary aim of this study is to identify and explain the errors of Xhosa students learning English
as a second language. The study sets out to determine the kinds of errors made in selected
grammatical categories, i.e. concord, personal pronouns, articles, prepositions, plurals and spelling.
In an effort to determine which of the errors can be ascribed to transfer from the first language, a
contrastive analysis is carried out between Xhosa and English. Many of the errors that pupils make
can be attributed to the different ways in which the two languages encode each of the categories that
are investigated.
The data consist of essays written by twenty-five Grade 9 Xhosa pupils who are learning English as a
second language in a rural school in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Each pupil wrote an
argumentative and a narrative essay, and these essays were analysed for errors in the six categories
mentioned above. Finally, methods and techniques of addressing transfer errors in a poorly
resourced teaching situation are suggested so that teachers can provide remedial assistance even
under difficult teaching conditions. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Errors | en_US |
dc.subject | Identification/description/explanation of errors | en_US |
dc.subject | Transfer | en_US |
dc.subject | Interference | en_US |
dc.subject | Xhosa grammar | en_US |
dc.subject | English grammar | en_US |
dc.subject | English Second Language | en_US |
dc.title | An analysis of the errors in grammar made by Xhosa learners of English second language | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.thesistype | Masters | en_US |