INVESTIGATING UNDERGRADUATES’ ESSAY WRITING ERRORS OF ASPECTS IN SUDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

This present paper aimed at investigating the major errors and mistakes that face 4th year students at college of languages, Sudan University of Science and Technology in using grammatical aspect in academic essay-writing. To identify the role of syllabus to solve these problems, the descriptive and analytical method was adopted in this paper. The data of this study was collected by the use of a test. The respondents of this article were 56 students at fourth year at college of languages who had a test to diagnose the errors of aspect. The findings of the study showed that the students have no background information about knowledge of error analysis, techniques and strategies of error correction. The results also showed that lots of students commit numerous errors in aspect. Lastly, the study recommended that the syllabus designed at previous stage should be altered by a current English syllabus which has a variety of exercises, drills and tasks as well as error correction methods and techniques. Above all, teachers’ notions and views ought to be taken into consideration while designing English syllabus. All these will surely contribute to help and develop students to write a good essay without numerous errors in aspect or minimize them as far as possible.