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Writing Errors and its Effects on the English Writing Skills Of Selected
Young Adult Students Of Cavite State University – General Trias City

Campus

Jaira Shamai Dino, Jailamie A. Gulane and Marean S. Iso

Cavite State University – General Trias City, Cavite

This study was conducted from August to November 2017 to determine the
errors and its effects on the writing skills of selected young adult learners in Cavite
State University- General Trias City Campus. It specifically aimed to (a) determine
the socio-demographic profiles of selected learners; (b) determine the levels of
English aptitude and motivation in English; (c) determine the levels of learners
errors commit in forms of introduction, word choice, sentence structure and
grammar spelling, capitalization and punctuation;
(d) determine the levels in writing skills of the learners in terms of coherence,
cohesion,

and organization; (e) determine if there is a significant effect of the learners’
aptitude test between the levels of error in writing and skills in writing; (f)
determine if there is a significant relationship of learners’ motivation in English
between the levels of error in writing and skills in writing; and (g) determine the
significant difference between the outputs produced by male over female. The
participants of the study were the twenty percent of the population of young adult

learners from Cavite State University – General Trias City Campus. The
researchers used questionnaires adopted and modified by the researchers. The
research design and the stratified random sampling technique were used in
selecting the participants of the study. Based on the over-all results obtained from
the gathered data, it proves that errors in the respondent’s writing have no
significant effects in their writing skills in English.

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