An Error Analysis in Paragraph Writing in Academic Writing Class of Thai Undergraduate Students, Rajamangala University of Technology
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The research aimed to study the error analysis in paragraph writing in academic writing class of Thai undergraduate students by focusing on the frequency distribution of error types in the paragraph. The subject was 34 undergraduate students which are gathered by purposive selection. The finding indicated that the students made 10 mistakes in every type of the error which were verb tense, singular/plural form, preposition, subject/ verb agreement, run-on sentences, spelling, verb form, capitalization, sentence fragment, and punctuation/ comma splice. Moreover, the most frequent error was subject-verb agreement and the least frequent error was punctuation-comma splice.
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