This study investigated writing errors committed by engineering students at An-
Najah National University in Palestine and compared these errors based on school

type. It analyzed errors in essays of 54 undergraduate students, 28 attended
governmental schools, and 26 attended private schools. Errors were classified
based on James's taxonomy. Results showed that both groups faced the same
problems when writing in English, as the frequency of committed errors for both
groups had the order of morphology, spelling, punctuation, formal, syntactic,
semantic and ordering, except for formal errors being higher than punctuation for
private school students. The study also concluded that no statistical significant
differences were apparent in frequency of errors committed by the two groups.
This indicates that private school students do not outperform their governmental
school peers in school performance. Such results are necessary for parents and for
the Ministry of Education as they oppose the general belief that performance of
private school students is better.

Title

International Journal of Research in Education and Science

Publisher

Ismail Sahin

Publisher Country

Turkey

Publication Type

Online only

Volume

7

Year

2021

Pages

21