[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":3,"doc-seo-589720-105":59,"doc-detail-589720-en":130},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",[7,13,18,23,28,33,38,43,48,51,55],{"id":8,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":10,"show_sort_weight":11,"slug":12},1,"Document","Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":14,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":15,"show_sort_weight":16,"slug":17},2,"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":19,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":20,"show_sort_weight":21,"slug":22},4,"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":24,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":25,"show_sort_weight":26,"slug":27},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":29,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":30,"show_sort_weight":31,"slug":32},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":34,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":35,"show_sort_weight":36,"slug":37},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":39,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":40,"show_sort_weight":41,"slug":42},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":44,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":45,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":47},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":46,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":49,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":50},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":52,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":53,"show_sort_weight":52,"slug":54},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":56,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":57,"show_sort_weight":24,"slug":58},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":60,"data":61},"ok",{"site_id":62,"language":63,"slug":64,"title":65,"keywords":66,"description":67,"schema_data":68,"social_meta":123,"head_meta":125,"extra_data":127,"updated_unix":129},105,"en","error-analysis-in-academic-writing-a-case-of-international-postgraduate-students-in-malaysia","Error Analysis in Academic Writing - A Case of International Postgraduate Students in Malaysia","","This paper examines the different types of writing errors made by 16 international postgraduate students studying in an intensive English course at a public university in Malaysia. Writing a 3–5 page term paper was required before entering their faculty programs. Using a mixed methodology, the study identifies and classifies errors in students’ term papers. Results show the four most common errors are sentence structure, articles, punctuation, and capitalization, reflecting how learners apply English rules alongside native-language assumptions.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":40,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/research-report/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/error-analysis-in-academic-writing-a-case-of-international-postgraduate-students-in-malaysia/589720/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/error-analysis-in-academic-writing-a-case-of-international-postgraduate-students-in-malaysia/589720.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"Cipher","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-11-10","2026-10-15",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":29},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"What writing task and learner group does the study focus on?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"The study examines 16 international postgraduate students enrolled in an intensive English course in Malaysia, who were required to write a 3–5 page term paper related to their field of study.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"Which error types were most common in the term papers?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"The results identify four most common English errors: sentence structure, articles, punctuation, and capitalization.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"How is error analysis approached in the study?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"A mixed methodology is used to examine students’ term papers, where errors are identified, classified, and then analyzed to explain their occurrence.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},589720,1792067989,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":39,"category_name":40,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":29,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":24,"language":139,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":140,"faqs":141,"seo_title":142,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":129,"read_time":143,"preview_page_count":4},687208528416,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_9964176cb1d06d4a9deccf72a44ae3dc","Advances in Language and Literary Studies  \nISSN: 2203-4714  \n[www.alls.aiac.org.au](www.alls.aiac.org.au)  \n| Error Analysis in Academic Writing: A Case of International Postgraduate Students in Malaysia\u003Cbr>Fatemeh Amiri*, Marlia Puteh\u003Cbr>Language Academy, University Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia Corresponding Author: Fatemeh Amiri, E-mail: [famiri80@gmail.com](famiri80@gmail.com) |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| ARTICLE INFO | ABSTRACT\u003Cbr>This paper examines the different types of writing errors performed by 16 international postgraduate students undertaking an intensive English course at a public university in Malaysia. It was mandatory for international postgraduate students who obtained less than IELTS Band 6 to undertake an Intensive English Course (IEC) offered by the University, prior to entering their respective faculties’ academic programs. The students were required to write a 3-5 page term paper assignment on a topic related to their field of study. Mixed methodology approach was employed to examine and analyze corpus of students’ term papers. The errors in the term papers were identified and classified accordingly. The results of the study revealed that four most common English language errors committed by the participants were sentence structure, articles, punctuation and capitalization. This study also shed light on the manner in which students assumed the rules of English to that of their native language. Such insight is useful for both instructors and students because it provides significant information on the building blocks experienced by English language learners in academic writing. |\n| Article history\u003Cbr>Received: June 11, 2017\u003Cbr>Accepted: August 19, 2017\u003Cbr>Published: August 31, 2017\u003Cbr>Volume: 8 Issue: 4\u003Cbr>Advance access: August 2017 |  |\n| Conflicts of interest: None\u003Cbr>Funding: None |  |\n| Key words:\u003Cbr>Error Analysis,\u003Cbr>Academic Writing, Postgraduate Students, English Language Learners |  |\n\nINTRODUCTION  \nWriting in English is accounted as a complex process for English as a foreign language learners and committing errors in writing are found as an inevitable part of language learners’writing. Ellis (1997) pointed out to the lack of fossilization of learners’ grammar in first language acquisition, rather its’importance in second language acquisition. Corder (1967) considered errors as the evidence of the learners’ inherent syllabus which demonstrated how first and second language learners advance an independent system of language. Therefore, the analysis of errors has turned to be an imperative arena of linguistics. This arena of language teaching value from the outcomes of linguistics in various cases comprising error analysis. Hence, investigating language learners’grammatical knowledge through analyzing their writing has become essential in order for teachers and instructors to assist the students. In addition, the analysis of language learners’ grammatical knowledge enables the language teachers and instructors to predict and conquer problems of errors encountered in the process of language learning. Corder (1967) further noted that classifying the errors committed by the learners helps the researchers to learn a great deal about the second language acquisition process through identifying the strategies that language learners employ. He also regarded the functions of errors are indispensable since errors are considered as a device the learners use in order to learn.  \nError analysis is described as a set of procedures to identify, describe and explain learners’ errors (Ellis and Barkhuizen, 2005) . Error Analysis not only deals with identifying and detecting errors but also explaining the reason for occurrence of errors. According to Ellis and Barkhuizen (2005), samples ofthe learners’productive English comprise the best technique to investigate second language acquisition. This study uses the term papers written by Iranian international students taking IEC in order to conduct an error analysis on internat","cbCailTAV91FBOgm","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailTAV91FBOgm","pdf",650320,"English","# Introduction\n# Literature Review","[{\"question\":\"What writing task and learner group does the study focus on?\",\"answer\":\"The study examines 16 international postgraduate students enrolled in an intensive English course in Malaysia, who were required to write a 3–5 page term paper related to their field of study.\"},{\"question\":\"Which error types were most common in the term papers?\",\"answer\":\"The results identify four most common English errors: sentence structure, articles, punctuation, and capitalization.\"},{\"question\":\"How is error analysis approached in the study?\",\"answer\":\"A mixed methodology is used to examine students’ term papers, where errors are identified, classified, and then analyzed to explain their occurrence.\"}]","Error Analysis in Academic Writing - A Case of International Postgraduate Students in Malaysia | PDF",13]