Analysis of Errors in Graph Writing Committed by Vietnamese Learners of IELTS – A Case Study in Vietnam (Published)
This article analysed the errors made in the IELTS (International English Language Testing System) graph writing by 60 Vietnamese learners of Advanced IELTS at an English centre in Ho Chi Minh city, Viet Nam. The analysis was based on the theoretical framework developed by the Cambridge IELTS Consultant – Dane (2023) and Châu (2024). 60 IELTS graph writings done by these learners at the beginning of an advanced IELTS course were collected and assessed after they had learned the first lesson on graph description. The study was qualitative-oriented. Various kinds of errors were found and described in detail to find out their causes as the basis for the solutions to be put forward. The research results showed that the errors of word repetition, wrong information, missing words, wrong words were the most common among other errors made in each writing due to a variety of reasons. The implications withdrawn from these error causes could help learners of Advanced IELTS in general and the Vietnamese ones in particular have a good insight into the requirements of the graph task, the way to manage the task time allocation, the steps to develop a full graph writing to minimize and even avoid errors in their IELTS graph writing to describe graphs effectively and successfully.
Keywords: Case Study, Error Analysis, IELTS Vietnamese learners, Viet Nam, graph writing