The Effects of Misconceptions Syntactic Concepts on Writing Performance - A Case Study at a University in Vietnam

The current research paper was carried out at a university in Hanoi, Vietnam order to investigate the effects of misconceptions between Vietnamese syntactic concepts and those English on writing performance. design study “qualitative case study”. selected from 116 students who have finished their first year studying different disciplines such as Business Administration, International Business, Banking Tourism Administration … scope terms three categories; verb-related, noun-related adverbial related errors. findings were that verb-related errors wrong tenses, infinitive phrases omission ‘be’ are frequently found; 31.9%, 30.9% 29.3% respectively. determiners conjuncts make up 47.8% each. Most participants do not understand meaning English.