To conclude this research, the results show that there is significant improvement by age in the
number of errors. Thus the commonly held belief that you make fewer and fewer errors as you
get older holds true. However, there has been no change in the types of errors that the students
make. Thus, the students have not overcome all mistakes: instead they still make e.g.
morpheme errors. The explanation for the errors is also the same. There are also a great
number of transfer errors. This essay has also shown some differences with regard to the
complexity of the texts the students have written. The older generation writes more complex
sentences and tend to write longer sentence while the younger generation writes primarily
short sentences that are less complex. This essay then has shown that the students of the older
generation make fewer mistakes overall but that they make the same types of errors as the
younger generation when they do make an error.