Research in Corpus Linguistics

Grammatical errors

51,80%



GP

GSE
Figure 1. Grammatical errors

The total amount of errors found in this category was 3,444. We noticed that the students tended to prefer simple sentences, as they did not feel competent enough to write complex sentences. The least frequent errors were those related to the use of the wrong patterns.

In order to contrast the tags obtained after the analysis of the texts by the raters, we studied the errors tagged for pragmatic reasons, i.e., the rhetorical effectiveness of students, and the results are shown in Figure 2: