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.