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Data analysis
The first step that I made before the analysis, I brought some English texts written
by English native speakers. Their level of education is the same of our student's
level and their ages as well, also the number of words is the same of our students
words. I brought these texts because I am going to make comparison between the
Arabian and English students' texts.
When I started the analysis of the texts, I make words statistics for both kinds of
texts by using monocnc program.
1) I,111
2) To,100
3) We,85
4) And,77
5) The,65
6) A,64
7) Went,50
8) It,40
9) Journey,38
10)My,38
11)In,33
12)On,33
13)Last,28
14)Was,27
15)At,15
16)An,4
(B)the native speakers texts statistics :
1-the number of words is 2002.
2-the most frequent words in the native speakers texts:
1) The,157
2) Of,69
3) To,61
4) And,44
5) A,38
6) In,35
7) Is,27
8) At,26
9) Which,25
10)With,24
11)On,22
12)From,21
13)I,22
14)That,20
15)An,5
16)Day,5
So my point is going to be about the
use of use of indifinte articls (a
&an).
So we saw the frequency indifinite articls for both kinds of texts . In the
texts that are written by the arabian, a was writen 64 and an 4 times and
when we looked at the texts are written by the naitive speakers of
English , a was written 38 and an 5 times. The most important thing that
the Arabian students make mistakes when they use them and I
discovered that because of the over use of the articles. Sometimes they
use them incorrectly or do not use them in a place that they must be
used.
Some examples of these mistakes:
Correction: we on a journey.
8) those, accordingly, who wear shoes, either cut a piece out of the
upper leather, or have shoes made on purpose, such as the Turkish
hadjys usually bring with them from Constantinople.
10)Here we kindled a large fire, and hired an earthen pot of the Arabs.
Grammatical Rule.
Students must know how indefinite articles are use, in order to improve
their writings .now let's look at their grammatical rule:
INDEFINITE ARTICLE
A / AN
Use 'a' with nouns starting with a consonant (letters that are not vowels),
'an' with nouns starting with a vowel (a,e,i,o,u)
Examples:
A boy
An apple
A car
An orange
A house
An opera
NOTE:
An before an h mute - an hour, an honour.
A before u and eu when they sound like 'you': a european, a university, a unit
Examples:
NOTE: that we use 'one' to add emphasis or to contrast with other numbers:
I don't know one person who likes eating elephant meat.
We've got six computers but only one printer.