What are the most frequent grammatical errors made by Japanese learners

The most frequent grammatical errors made by Japanese learners of English include:

• Misuse or lack of determiners (articles such as “a,” “an,” “the”) is a very common error due to differences in article usage between Japanese and English.
• Errors in verb tense and subject-verb agreement arise from difficulty with English conjugation and sentence structure.
• Over-passivization of intransitive verbs, meaning learners use passive constructions incorrectly for verbs that do not take a passive form in English.
• Errors in relative clause constructions and preposition usage.
• Lexical errors, such as inappropriate vocabulary choice, often accompany grammatical mistakes.

These errors are often linked to transfer from the Japanese language, which has significantly different grammatical rules compared to English, including no articles and different verb morphology, as well as difficulties in fully mastering English syntax and nuances. ^{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}

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