Abstract—Based on the theory of Error Analysis, this thesis
records the production of spoken English of first year college
students of Northwestern Polytechnical University as samples.
After listening to the recorder repeatedly and carefully, the
author classifies and describes the errors found in the corpus,
investigates the causes of these errors and provides solutions to
these problems. It is found that there are errors of performance,
phonological errors, lexical errors, grammatical errors and
pragmatic errors in this study. Reasons for these errors can be
explained from the perspectives of interlingual transfer,
intralingual interference, cognitive and affective factors, and
communicative strategies. Accordingly, some countermeasures
could be taken to effectively decrease errors.
Index Terms—Errors, spoken English, error analysis.
The authors are with the Northwestern Polytechnical Universi ty, Xi’an,
China
(e-mail: 1095993142@qq.com, tianjian@nwpu.edu.cn).
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Cite:Liu Yang and Tian Jianguo, "Error Analysis of College Students’ Spoken English," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 182-188, 2021.