ERROR PATTERNS IN UZBEK EFL LEARNERS’ WRITING A CORPUS-BASED PERSPECTIVE

Аннотация

Previous research in applied linguistics has highlighted the significance of learner error analysis for language teaching (Ellis, 1994; James, 1998). Corpus-based methods have added a new dimension to such studies, allowing researchers to quantitatively measure error types and compare them across learner groups (Granger, 2003). For Uzbek learners, however, systematic corpus-driven studies remain scarce. Existing works have largely been descriptive, noting difficulties with verb usage, prepositions, and sentence structure. This research builds upon these observations by providing a quantitative and qualitative corpus-based analysis.