towards an analysis of errors made by university students ... - DSpace

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In Table 5 we have the error rate per student, in each
ngp, in wbt errors and in i rg ones, separately, because we
also
wanted to verify whether students tended to produce one type of
error rather than the other, as the number of structural elements
increased.
The number of words forming the ngps precedes the letters
wg ; for instance, 2wg means that we are referring to a two-word
ngp. The table above presents the results from the two non-specific
texts.
In Table 5 we see that no error occurred in the only
ngp formed by five words, and that no ngp with six words was
found in those two texts. This means that the correlation test
is to be applied
to 2wg, 3wg and 4wg, only.
Table 6 presents the number of wbt and i rg errors made
by the Physics students, number of ngps in each text, and the
error rate per student, in each ngp, in ngps of two, three
and
four words, in the specific
texts.
Table 6 shows no occurrence
of 5wg, and only one 6wg,
where no wbt and i_r£ errors were made. Thus, the
correlation
test is to be applied to ngps of two, three and four words,
only.
Table 7 also presents the number of wbt and irg errors
in ngps of two, three, four, five and six words, the number
of
ngps in each specific text translated by the Nursing Group, and
i
the error rate per student, in each ngp.