Language is a typical and essential product of each nation because it is
the individual feature of each country. When learning a foreign language, it is
necessary for learners to learn four skills: listening, speaking, reading and
writing. Thank to it, learners can master and use this foreign language. In all
four skills, speaking can be considered to be the skill which requires learners
to spend very much time learning and practicing. Most of the students face up
with the difficulties in studying speaking at first. In fact, studying speaking
well is one of the key which helps learners step by step discover this
interesting language.
Moreover, English is not easy to learn because English grammar is
rather complicated. In fact, many English learners have the misconception
that when they have memorized many grammar structures and can write well,
they can speak well. Yet, when they stand up to speak on something, things
do not appear to be as easy as they expected. Sometimes, learners can speak
on something and feel satisfied their speeches after finishing them. But they
rarely take notice of or even recognize some sentence problems related to
grammar structures that may occur. With the hope that learners can find out
some experiences of grammatical errors during speaking and of being
corrected, a study on “Grammatical errors made by English major
students at Hai Phong Private University when speaking English and the
solutions” is chosen as the topic of this graduation paper.