Error rate and overuse of inflectional bound morphemes in the IELTS speaking test: A case study

This study casts light on the use of five inflectional morphemes, namely progressive/ present participle -ing, plural -s, past tense -ed (for both regular and irregular verbs), past participle -en and third-person -s by three candidates at three different band levels in the IELTS Speaking test. The candidates were to take part in a simulated IELTS Speaking test, and their performances were transcribed verbatim to calculate the error rate and overuse errors of the five morphemes.
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Error rate and overuse of inflectional bound morphemes in the IELTS speaking test: A case study