Error Analysis on English Writing of Chinese Mongolian Students Based on Automated Scoring System

Lili ZHAO

Abstract


A Corpus plays an important role in English writing. Corpus can provide students with rich authentic materials. The automated scoring system which is set up based on the use of corpus, such as the automated scoring system of Ju Ku, can grade the composition and make an analysis of students’ English writing to help them correct their writing errors. In this paper, an investigation of the writing problems of Mongolian students is carried out to make an analysis of the errors that students are easy to make in an attempt to improve Mongolian students’ writing abilities.


Keywords


Error analysis; Automated scoring system; Chinglish

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/%25x

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