%0 Journal Article
%T Spanish pre-university students' use of English: CEA results from the University Entrance Examination
%A Mar¨ªa Bel¨¦n D¨ªez Bedmar
%J International Journal of English Studies (IJES)
%D 2011
%I Universidad de Murcia
%R 10.6018/ijes.11.2.149681
%X In this paper an updated overview of the main errors that Spanish students make when writing the English exam in the University Entrance Examination is provided. To do so, a Computer-aided Error Analysis (CEA) (Dagneaux, Denness & Granger, 1998) was conducted on a representative sample of the students who took the exam in June 2008 in Ja¨¦n, and wrote a composition on the same topic. The use of the most widely-used error taxonomy, the Error Tagging Manual version 1.1. (Dagneaux, Denness, Granger & Meunier, 1996), and the analysis of the results by means of descriptive statistics foster the possibility to replicate this study and move forward in the description of the students¡¯ written command in the foreign language at this stage. The comparison of the findings obtained in this study and those from previous (C)EAs on the English exam reveals that some common tendencies may be shown. Este art¨ªculo aporta una visi¨®n general actualizada de los errores m¨¢s importantes que los alumnos espa oles cometen cuando escriben el examen de ingl¨¦s de la Prueba de Acceso a la Universidad. Con este fin, se realiz¨® un An¨¢lisis de Errores Informatizado (Dagneaux, Denness & Granger, 1998) en una muestra representativa de los estudiantes que realizaron el examen en Junio de 2008 en la Universidad de Ja¨¦n, y que escribieron sobre un mismo tema. El uso de la taxonom¨ªa de errores m¨¢s usada, el Error Tagging Manual version 1.1. (Dagneaux, Denness, Granger & Meunier, 1996), y de la estad¨ªstica descriptiva para analizar los resultados, favorecen la r¨¦plica de este estudio y la posibilidad de mejorar la descripci¨®n de la destreza escrita en la lengua extranjera. La comparaci¨®n de los resultados en este art¨ªculo y otros An¨¢lisis de Errores (Informatizados) previos muestran que se pueden exponer algunas tendencias comunes.
%K English exam
%K University Entrance Examination
%K Computer-aided Error Analysis
%U http://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/149681