Error Analysis of Gombe State Polytechnic Bajoga Students’ Posts on Facebook
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Posts on FacebookAbstract
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.