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Student Name 1 Student Name Professor Course University 12 December, 2011 Error Analysis of the Written English Essays of Primary School Students in Malaysia Malaysian students need to enhance their skills in both Malay and English language. Since English is taught as a second language in Malaysia, thus students feel difficulty in improving their all four skills of reading, listening, speaking and writing. The purpose of this study is to analyze errors in English essays written by 75 non-native English speaking Year Six Malay students from a selected school. The students have experienced same years of education in primary education system of Malaysia and hardly use English to communicate outside the school at their homes and community. The basic study was conducted on all 75 essays submitted by these students; errors were identified and classified into respective categories. Markin software was used as a tool to identify and categorize these errors. The results indicated that mechanics, verb tense, subject-verb agreement and preposition were the major errors highlighted during the study. The study revealed that the students seemed more influenced by their native language and failed to appreciate the differences between English and Malay. Identification of these errors may help teachers to devise effective methodology for teaching English as a second language. From a student‟s perspective, it is critical to understand basic rules of En glish language to create effective and acceptable sentence structures.
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