Error Analysis of the Eighth Grade Students’ English Writing Abstract Writing is one of the basic skills in language learning and it plays an important role in language performance. Thus, writing shouldn’t be neglected by teachers or students. However, in the process of English writing, the eighth grade students are always inevitably making different kinds of errors. In order to find out the types of the eighth grade students’ errors and causes of errors in English writing, the thesis is based on Error Analysis and Interlanguage Theory, researches on 134 compositions of examinations to classify the errors and analyze the causes of errors, with students’ questionnaires and teachers’ interviews as research instrument.51942

Based on James’ classification of errors, the thesis classified errors into substance errors, lexical errors and grammatical errors. After analyzing the errors, the thesis finds that inter-lingual, intra-lingual error and induced error are three main sources of errors and summarizes other errors. Following the discussions and findings above, the thesis puts forward accordingly some methods to improve the eighth grade students’ English writing.

Keywords: Error Analysis; classification; causes

初二学生英语写作的错误分析

摘要英语写作在英语学习中占有非常重要的地位。然而目前普通初中学生的英语写作现状并不尽如人意，师生都为此感到困惑。因此，本文以中介语及错误分析理论为理论基础，旨在研究初二学生在英语写作方面存在错误的类型，错误的主要来源以及相关的解决策略。

通过对在同一位教师指导下、写作水平接近的两个班，134份语料中产生的1336个错误的整体分析，笔者将对拼写错误、词汇错误以及语法错误进行分类。研究结果表明初二学生在语法错误中出现的问题最多，其次为词汇错误。除此之外，研究结果还发现错误的主要原因是语际、语间迁移和诱发性错误。针对错误的类型和三大错误原因，本文提出了几种旨在提高初二学生英语写作水平的教学策略，例如，为语言的输出提供丰富的易于理解的语言输入；加强课上的练习并采用多样的方法进行写作评价等。

毕业论文关键词：初二学生；英语写作；错误分析

Contents

1. Introduction 1

1.1 Background of the Study 1

1.2 Objective and Significance of the Study 2

1.2.1 Objective of the Study 2

1.2.2 Significance of the Study 2

2. Literature Review 3

2.1 The Study of Error Analysis Abroad 3

2.2 The Study of Error Analysis at Home 4

2.3 The Limitations of Error Analysis Theory 4

2.4 Theoretical Framework 5

2.4.1 Interlanguage 5

2.4.2 Error Analysis Theory 6

2.5 Research Framework 7

2.5.1 Classification of Errors