期刊名称：International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN：2278-4012
出版年度：2014
卷号：3
期号：3
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：The speaking skill in non-native language has been the subject of investigations inrecent years (Hojati, 2013). The present study examines errors in the speech of less proficientspeakers of English during their role-play presentations. The samples were obtained during theirenrolment in Foundation English class, a class where those who scored low during EnglishPlacement Test registered. The errors in their speech were analysed by following surfacestructure taxonomy that specifies four types of errors namely misformation, misordering,addition and omission. Findings indicate that omission accounted for the majority of errorsidentified and this is followed by misformation, addition and misordering. In addition, linguisticdescriptions of errors identified verb form and word form to be the most frequent types of errorscommitted by speakers.
