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Written Outputs of the Frcshmen of the Coilege of Education in Tarlac State Unive6ity

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Written Outputs of

the Freshmen of the College

of Education

in Tarlac

State

University

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Thesis

Presented

to

the

Graduate

School

Holy Angel University

In Partial Fulfilhnent of

the

Requirements for

the Degree

of

Master

of

Arts in English Teaching

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Written OutpuB of the Freshmen of the @llege of Eduation in Tarlac State Univercity $

Written Outputs of

the Freshmen

of the College of

Education in Tarlac

State

University

Myrel Mallari

Santiago

Abstract

This study focuses on the

writing

problems of the freshmen of the College

of

Education in Tarlac State University through error analysis. The 232 students were asked to write three paragraphs: narrative, expository, and descriptive. The data collected from these

writing

outputs underwent three stages

of analysis.

First, they were tabulated and tallied to

identi$

the most frequent error of the students, which was verb tense. Second, the errors were described and classified according to their linguistic category and surface structure

taronomy. It

showed that most of the students' errors were

in

grammatical level and they were results

of

misformation, blends, misselection, addition, and

misordering.

Finally, the errors were explained by stating the rules violated and the learning strategies used by the students in committing

erors.

Students' misanalysis

of

some concepts,

overgeneralization of rules, overlooking of co-occurrence restrictions, and incomplete application

of

rules caused the

errors.

From these findings, a procedure

for

remedial teaching was suggested and other activities that may be employed

for

incorporating

gammar

into

writing

instruction.