The goal of the following study will be to investigate the errors that EFL(English as a foreign language) learners make in English. The focus will be on the mistakes that the participants make in grammar, and the researcher will attempt to understand whether such errors are due to transfer from the participants’ L1 and/or if they are related to aspects such as gender, age, and profession. Gaining a greater level of understanding about this topic is valuable in the linguistics field because it could help instructors in language schools decide how to divide students into classrooms, not only on the basis of their English proficiency level but on other aspects that could influence and improve the classroom environment. Previous research has
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The participants will be contacted through web pages and selected on the basis of which universities they attend/attended (such as Cà Foscari University in Italy, Trento University in Italy, Tohoku University in Japan, etc. ), by following such procedure the researcher will be able to only recruit participants with a background in studying English, seen as it is mandatory in those universities to take at least two semesters of English as a second language. In the first part, a survey about English grammar will be posted on said universities public pages where current and former students will be able to volunteer to take it. In doing so, the aim is to recruit people coming from both European and Asian countries. The researcher will then look at the outcome of the survey and select a stratified sample in order to have the amount of people for what it concerns gender, first language (European or Asian), age, and profession-student or worker (all of the previous aspects were addressed in form of questions at the beginning of the survey to make sure that the researcher would be able to use a stratified sampling technique). The surveys’ data will then be analyzed through independent samples t-tests (or Mann Whitney U Tests) to inspect the significant difference between number of errors and L1, gender, age, and professional
The participants will be contacted through web pages and selected on the basis of which universities they attend/attended (such as Cà Foscari University in Italy, Trento University in Italy, Tohoku University in Japan, etc. ), by following such procedure the researcher will be able to only recruit participants with a background in studying English, seen as it is mandatory in those universities to take at least two semesters of English as a second language. In the first part, a survey about English grammar will be posted on said universities public pages where current and former students will be able to volunteer to take it. In doing so, the aim is to recruit people coming from both European and Asian countries. The researcher will then look at the outcome of the survey and select a stratified sample in order to have the amount of people for what it concerns gender, first language (European or Asian), age, and profession-student or worker (all of the previous aspects were addressed in form of questions at the beginning of the survey to make sure that the researcher would be able to use a stratified sampling technique). The surveys’ data will then be analyzed through independent samples t-tests (or Mann Whitney U Tests) to inspect the significant difference between number of errors and L1, gender, age, and professional