Grammatical Errors Among Pathways’ Students at secondary schools in Jeddah

The current study aims to examine the grammatical errors among high school students — in the tracks system — in Jeddah. It attempts to answer the main question: What are the most frequent grammatical errors among high school students — in the tracks system — in Jeddah's schools? The study took a sample of student writings, collected and corrected them, identified errors and their frequency in each track, then classified them. The results showed that the general track recorded the highest percentage of errors in a number of areas including: letter writing with an error rate of 57%, classified as (not passing), then writing of genitives with an error rate of 50%, classified as (weak), then in verbs with an error rate of 48.7%, classified as (weak), then writing numbers with an error rate of 48.1%, classified as (weak). Meanwhile, the Health and Life track recorded the highest percentage of errors in writing of grammatical units that take nominative case markers at 45.5%, classified as (weak), and the Computer and Engineering track recorded the highest percentage of errors in writing of grammatical units that take the accusative case markers at 39.4%, classified as (acceptable).