The Spectrum of the Lexical Errors Committed by the Select Government Degree College in West Bengal: A Study

Abstract

This paper presents the report of a study on error analysis carried out on the students among the Bengali speakers at the Krishna Nath Government College in West Bengal. Its aim is to investigate the students’ knowledge of English and the problems they have had in learning it. The study was conducted on the students written answer scripts and the question papers were designed by the district education officers. A detailed analysis of the data shows that there are seven kinds of errors found in all the students and they can be arranged in the following order in terms of their severity. They are spelling errors, semantic errors, grammatical errors, reversal errors, addition errors, deletion errors and substitution error. An effect has been made to describe and explain the possible causes of these errors.