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The cline of errors in the writing of Japanese university students
Author(s) -
French Gary
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
world englishes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.6
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-971X
pISSN - 0883-2919
DOI - 10.1111/j.0083-2919.2005.00418.x
Subject(s) - plural , sentence , world englishes , linguistics , subject (documents) , cline (biology) , psychology , degree (music) , mathematics education , sociology , computer science , philosophy , demography , population , physics , library science , acoustics
In this study, errors in the English writing of students in the College of World Englishes at Chukyo University, Japan are examined to determine if there is a level of acceptance among teachers. If there is, are these errors becoming part of an accepted, standardized Japanese English? Results show there is little acceptance of third person “‐s”, article and plural errors in student writing, but there is a measured degree of the acceptance of errors with regards to sentence combining and sentence fragments, omission of subject, generalizing or obscuring of subjects, and omission of expected superlatives.