After reading the last posts of the three students, I can say that in general they commit the same grammatical errors as their previous posts.
Mauro’s post is very well written but as I noticed before it contains wrong word (WW) and also in his last post it contains wrong word order (WWO).
As I said in my last post, Catalina is very good at descriptions. She wants to express many things and she does but not in an appropriate way. She commits the same grammar mistakes as wrong word (WW), wrong tense (WT) and also many punctuation mistakes. Maybe this last point attempts directly in the way that she wants to express herself. Her ideas are not well order because in some cases she uses a comma instead of a period or the other way around.
David’s post has the same kind of errors. Most of them are related with word order (WW). This problem usually happens because students tend to translate what they want to express themselves. However, in this post I could notice more grammatical mistakes as wrong tense (WT), and also David’s ideas are not well expressed because he has many punctuation mistakes (P).
The three different students tend to commit the same error. In general their posts contain wrong word order (WWO), as I said before the problem lies in the idea of translation (Spanish-English).
In my personal opinion, the most difficult thin to correct is punctuation. First of all, because I also have punctuation problems in Spanish Also because in same cases we have to change almost all the text to make it sense.
I think that the only solution to improve student’s writing is to read and read the final paper, many times as possible, until it makes sense to you. Using a dictionary is always a good support to be sure that you are spelling is correct and that you are using the correct word.
Mauro’s post is very well written but as I noticed before it contains wrong word (WW) and also in his last post it contains wrong word order (WWO).
As I said in my last post, Catalina is very good at descriptions. She wants to express many things and she does but not in an appropriate way. She commits the same grammar mistakes as wrong word (WW), wrong tense (WT) and also many punctuation mistakes. Maybe this last point attempts directly in the way that she wants to express herself. Her ideas are not well order because in some cases she uses a comma instead of a period or the other way around.
David’s post has the same kind of errors. Most of them are related with word order (WW). This problem usually happens because students tend to translate what they want to express themselves. However, in this post I could notice more grammatical mistakes as wrong tense (WT), and also David’s ideas are not well expressed because he has many punctuation mistakes (P).
The three different students tend to commit the same error. In general their posts contain wrong word order (WWO), as I said before the problem lies in the idea of translation (Spanish-English).
In my personal opinion, the most difficult thin to correct is punctuation. First of all, because I also have punctuation problems in Spanish Also because in same cases we have to change almost all the text to make it sense.
I think that the only solution to improve student’s writing is to read and read the final paper, many times as possible, until it makes sense to you. Using a dictionary is always a good support to be sure that you are spelling is correct and that you are using the correct word.
3 comments:
I also found those mistakes in my students' blog.
The mist common ones go from wrong order to the exact translation from Spanish to English which can be confused and misunderstood for any reader...
seee you
*-*
Cote you are right when you say something about the word order which is the most current mistake in writing and I agree with you in this: "This problem usually happens because students tend to translate what they want to express themselves".
I have to say that when I satarted to learn English I ussually made the same mistakes.
See you.
Yeah, I've seen similar mistakes in my "students". I hope we can help them not make those mistakes again. See u around!take care.
Post a Comment