Most Common Linguistic Errors Identified in Oral Discourse in Undergraduate Students from a Public University.

The main objective of this study was to identify the most common linguistic errors undergraduate students from a public university located in the city of Azogues, in the parish Chuquipata make in oral discourse. Therefore, the teachers-researchers selected students from fifth to ninth semester from the Pedagogy of National and Foreign Languages Major; additionally, teachers also collaborated with the data collection stage. The focus was to analyze students’ spontaneous oral interaction. The researchers were in charge of recording the audios, transcribing the oral utterances, proof-reading them, encoding the information collected in MAXQDA and organizing it in an Excel spreadsheet. The methodology applied in this research was the Corpus Linguistics approach. At the end of the study, the researchers were able to present a list of the most common linguistics errors students make in oral discourse.