COMMON MISTAKES IN ESL WRITING CLASSES

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Title

COMMON MISTAKES IN ESL WRITING CLASSES

Author

Cankaya, Aziz
Yanik, Hayrullah
Gojayev, Asif

Abstract

This articles deals with writing classes in ESL groups, and aims to reveal common mistakes among students in paragraph or essay writing. Approximately one hundred students were engaged in this survey and their exam paper and feedbacks from survey were used to outline this article. Mistakes in paragraph and essay writing were divided into specific chapters, common and specific mistakes were worked on. Article mainly focuses on mistakes in organization of paragraph or essay, cohesion, creativity and idea development, grammar, variety of structures, and puts forward way of elimination to these mistakes.

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PeerReviewed

Date

2012-05-04

Extent

774