Analyzing errors in the use of inflectional morphemes by Pakistani young learners

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dc.contributor.authorFatima Dogar, Maria
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-14T03:26:32Z
dc.date.available2017-12-14T03:26:32Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionSupervised by: Rao Jaleelen_US
dc.description.abstractThe research on acquisition of inflectional morphology in languages has been an area of great interest for the last 40 years. Learners that achieve the high level of proficiency in L2 feel uncertainty when it comes to grammatical inflections. The present study employs Error analysis to identify deviations from the target language and proposes the more or less problematic Inflectional morphemes. The data that comprised of 24 creative writing journals of grade 5 students from Sicas Lahore was analyzed manually by the researcher. The frequency and percentage were calculated in order to find the accuracy level of the English inflectional morphemes. Moreover, the scatter plots were analyzed to reflect upon the pattern of use of each inflectional morpheme by individual students. It is found that there is a wide gap in the mastery of the inflectional morphemes. The most frequent inflectional morpheme is the plural morpheme. Present participial has dominance over the other verb forms. Scatter plots of the past tense and subject verb agreement reflect that both of them are in the hypothesis testing phase of the error analysis but the frequency of past tense inflection is almost five folds to the frequency of the subject-verb agreement inflection. This indicates that subject- verb agreement poses more problems for the learners. The comparative degree, superlative degree and the possessive inflection have minimal occurrences but percentage accuracy is very high. That is the most striking finding of the present study.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2298
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Management and Technology Lahoreen_US
dc.subjectIndividual studentsen_US
dc.subjectPlural morphemeen_US
dc.subjectM.Phil Thesisen_US
dc.titleAnalyzing errors in the use of inflectional morphemes by Pakistani young learnersen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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