RESEARCH Victoria Fernandez Ramirez

Second semester LIDILE

RECORD
Linguistic fact: 12-13-years-old English students omit phonemes and
graphemes that go at the beginning or the end of a word
Area of study: Language use (second language acquisition), discourse analysis,
language assesment
Description: Secondary school students tend to omit phonemes and
graphemes when they practice the second language such as
the letters ‘s’, ‘t’ and ‘g’, particularly if these are found at the
beginning or end of a word
Type of research: Qualitative
Topic of research: Morphology
Purpose of research: It can be of great importance to know why students
mispronounce and misspell words and how the teacher can
help them correct it.
Hypothesis or Research 1. Does students’ omission of letters has to do with L1
Question: interference?
2. Does students’ omission of letters has to do with a
problem in the psycholinguistic process of oral
comprehension?
3. Do they omit simply due to carelessness?
Subjects: 10 Secondary School students
Context: Escuela Secundaria Foranea #1, Chapala, Jalisco. Class 2ª
Data Gathering:  Video recording
 Tape recording
 Observation guide
 Tally chart
Data analysis process: 1. Students will be provided with a topic and will be
asked to write a paper based on it.
2. The papers will be review and the amount of
graphemes omitted will be counted.
3. Afterwards, students will be asked to talk about that
same topic and this will be recorded.
4. The researcher will compare the results to see if there
is a pattern to this phenomenon.
5. The results of this research will help language teachers
to design countermeasures to prevent this.