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Writing is a challenging task for EFL students. Hence, students need to consider the four conventions in writing such as punctuation, spelling, grammar and capitalization as they further practice on their writing skill. When learners acquire the ability to recognize the learning concepts of errors made, their writing ability can greatly develop. This corpus- based study is primarily focused on finding the most frequent capitalization errors in writing short response and book review of Grade 9 Thai EFL learners of Phoprathapchang Municipal Wittayalai School, Phichit Thailand. This study aimed to point out potential capitalization weaknesses of the Grade 9 Thai EFL by thus promoting awareness of their mistakes which can serve a beneficial help for their holistic growth in language competence. The researchers collected (20) short descriptive essays and (20) book reviews as their corpora. The findings revealed that not capitalizing the proper noun and adjective are the most frequent capitalization error in writing short responses while not capitalizing the first letter of a sentence ranked first in writing book reviews. The researchers suggest to the present facilitators to give more emphasis on the cited errors of their students to give room for improvement. It was also greatly emphasized that these errors are not mistakes but challenges that needed to be addressed.
Keywords:
capitalization, error analysis, EFL learners, short response, book review
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"Most Frequent Capitalization Errors of EFL Thai Learners in Writing Short Response and Book Review: A Corpus-Based Study", International Journal for Research Trends and Innovation (www.ijrti.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.7, Issue 12, page no.101 - 106, December-2022, Available :http://www.ijrti.org/papers/IJRTI2212016.pdf
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2456-3315 | IMPACT FACTOR: 8.14 Calculated By Google Scholar| ESTD YEAR: 2016
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