The errors in the use of article in business letter writing in English : a case study of the business management students of Vavuniya Campus, Sri Lanka

Abstract

This paper investigates the errors in the use of articles in business letter writing in English. It is a case study of the Business Management Students of Vavuniya Campus, University of Jaffna in Sri Lanka. The study classifies the errors and analyzes the implications in the linguistic and discourse structures of the genre in relation to the mental schema acquired in the past. The written texts were collected from a systematic examination. The qualitative analysis dominates the methodology with some relevant quantitative data. It contributes to the explanation of the errors of Sri Lankan students