This research paper was conducted primarily to: (a) analyze the linguistic errors found in learner diaries of college freshman students of Kalinga-Apayao State College; and (b) find the written linguistic errors of freshman students across institutes in their diaries along lexical, morphological and syntactic. The data gathered from the retrieved questionnaires were identified, investigated, determined, analyzed, described, computed and interpreted using descriptive and Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Analysis of the data revealed the following: (a) the study shows that a total of 4, 249 errors were committed by college freshman students. Of this total, morphological errors ranked first with a frequency of 1, 612 (38%). This was followed by lexical errors which had a count of 1, 465 (34%) and the least errors committed by the students were syntactic with 1, 172 (28%). Based on the foregoing, the student-respondents performed best in the syntactic aspect and performed poorly in the morphological aspect.
Linguistic errors, learner diaries, freshman students, Kalinga-Apayao State College, morphological errors, syntactic errors
