ABSTrACT
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES
GLOSSARY OF LINGUISTIC TERMS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART A: INTRODUCTION
PART B: DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 1: Literature Review
1.1. An investigation into English Participial Adjectives
1.1.1. The formation of the Participial Adjectives
1.1.2. Syntactic functions of Participial Adjectives
1.1.3. Semantic features of Participial Adjectives
1.1.4. Participial Adjectives in collocation with nouns
1.2. The meaning of Participial Adjectives compared with their Vietnamese
equivalents
1.2.1. The meaning of Participial Adjectives rendered into Vietnamese
1.2.2. The choice of -ing and -ed Participial Adjectives in English
1.3. Error and Error Analysis
1.3.1. What is “error”?
1.3.2. What is ‘error analysis’?
1.3.3. Classification of errors
1.3.4. Possible causes of errors in the second language learning
1.4. Summary
Chapter 2: Research Methodology
2.1. The context of the study
2.2. Participants and their background
2.3. Research method
2.3.1. Research questions
2.3.2. Instrumentation
2.3.3. Data collection procedures
2.4. Summary
Chapter 3: The study
3.1. Some actual errors that students at Lang Son Technical &Economic Secondary
school commit when using E.P.Adjs
3.1.1. Errors in Participial Adjectives formation (survey exercise 1)
3.1.2. Errors in the use of -ing and -ed Participial Adjectives (survey exercise 2)
3.1.3. Failure to identify errors in the use Participial Adjectives (survey exercise 3 )
3.1.4. Errors in the choice of -ing and -ed Participial Adjectives (Survey Exercise 4)
3.1.5. Errors in sentence transformation (Survey Exercise 5)
3.1.6. Errors in Vietnamese -English translation (Survey Exercise 6)
3.2 Findings and Discussion
Chapter 4
Possible solutions to the students’ errors
IN using English Participial Adjectives
4.1. Suggestions for teaching and learning Participial Adjectives in English
4.1.1. Suggestions for teaching
4.1.2. Suggestions for learning
PART C: CONCLUSION
1. Conclusions
2. Recommendations for further research
REFERENCES
APPENDICES