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Chapter One   Introduction 

This  chapter  gives  a  brief  introduction  to  the  present  study. The  first  section  introduces the background of the present research; the second section lays out the purpose and necessity of the research and the last section serves as the outline of the thesis.  

1.1   Research Background 
English  majors  should  master  some  basic  language  skills  including  listening,  speaking, reading  and  writing.  Writing  skill  is  listed  at  last  but  it  is  not  the  least.  Instead,  it  is  more complicated and difficult for English majors to have a good command of it than other skills. Besides, the ultimate goal of foreign language teaching and learning is to cultivate learners with a certain level of communicative competence, and writing is definitely a quite important aspect of the competence. The writing part in English exams offers a comprehensive test for students’ ability  of  using  basic  second  or  foreign  language  knowledge.  However,  for  Chinese  foreign language learners, writing is still and has always been a weak side as is shown in the scores of so many kinds of tests such as CET4, CET6, TEM4 and TEM8 and so on (Jiang and Wang, 2008).  Various  errors  can  be  found  in  their  compositions  just  as  what  is  known  to  all  that making errors is inevitable in the process of learning till mastering a new language. Obviously, there  must  be  some  differences  and  also  similarities  among  the  errors  made  by  learners  of different  grades  with  different  levels  of  language  proficiency.  Analyzing  learners’  language errors in their writings in details will surely help learners to find out exactly what the errors are, where the errors are likely to appear and why they make such errors. With these elements in mind, second or foreign language learners will be enabled to target their problems in writing and  thus  they  can  pay  direct  attention  to  how  to  make  progress.  Error  analysis  is  also  rather valuable for second or foreign language teachers because when dealing with errors in writing, teachers can detect flaws in their teaching process and these findings will in turn help teachers to improve their teaching plans and to perfect their teaching methods.  
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1.2   Research Purpose and Necessity
The task of this present study is to identify errors in the writings of English majors in three different  grades  from  a  normal  university  in  Jilin  Province  and  then  to  categorize  them  into different error types. This thesis aims to find out the differences and similarities among errors and error types of the three grades in order to see the developing tendency of learner writings. It will  observe  the  changes  and &nbs本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。