Ecuadorian public high school students’ errors in EFL writing skill

Abstract

The present research is called “Ecuadorian public high school student’s errors in EFL writing skill”. The aim of the following study is to investigate and analyze the errors that students make when writing. It took place in Ibarra in a public high school with the support of sixty-three students from the second high school year, who are studying English as a foreign language. This study was carried out with the help of five English teachers. The methods used were qualitative as well as quantitative. The instruments applied were surveys, questionnaires and a deep content analysis through the students’ pieces of writing. The overall analysis revealed that the students’ most common error in writing was the lack of organization of the ideas in their paragraphs. They wrote many interesting ideas but they did not take care of the importance of the organization of the writing elements