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Lexical Errors in Kurdish EFL University Students’ Summary Writing | ||
| Journal of Language Studies | ||
| Volume 9, Issue 3, Part 1, September 2025, Pages 143-157 PDF (751.75 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.25130/Lang.9.3.P1.7 | ||
| Author | ||
| Qismat M. Zahawi | ||
| Salahaddin University- Erbil | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The current study works toward identifying and categorising the lexical errors made by Kurdish EFL students in writing summaries. The sample of the study consists of 40 Kurdish EFL students at the college of Basic Education in Salahaddin University. The lexical errors in their summaries, i.e. 40 summaries, were calculated and categorised into seven categories (based on Ander and Yıldırım’s classification 2010). The analysis of the data revealed that misspelling is the most common type of lexical errors made by Kurdish EFL students. It was followed by wrong word choice and errors of literal translation. The most prevalent type of error was misspelling. The reason behind the dominance of this type of error is ascribed to orthographically cross-linguistic differences between English and Kurdish on one hand; and the ineffective examination policy adopted in designing the twelfth grade large-scale exams in Kurdistan Region (which depends 100% on multiple choice items). | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Lexical Errors; Summary Writing; &Vocabulary Acquisition | ||
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