Error Analysis of Gombe State Polytechnic Bajoga Students’

Posts on Facebook

Abstract

This study analysed the errors made by students of Gombe State Polytechnic Bajoga with respect to their postings on Facebook. The 
English language was used to identify and analyse the errors committed. These errors were classified based on omission, addition, 
misinformation and disordering. Descriptive method was used in conducting this research. After applying the theory of error analysis by Corder 1981 and considering the four types of errors by Dulay, Burt and Krashen’ Taxonomy of errors (1982) in James (1998), the study found out that omission errors were 89 covering (43.4%), Addition errors were 48 with (23.4%), and misinformation had 68 with (33.2%) and Disordering with zero errors. The highest number of errors made by the students was omission which had 89 (43.4%), and that with lowest number of errors is disordering 0 (0%).It concluded that although some of the students like writing in English, they still made errors in forming the sentences whether in present or past forms because they do not understand the structure of the grammar of the English language.