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Error Analysis on Asian English Learners’ Oral English in 　　1. Introduction 　　International Schools are established to provide convenience for children of foreign personnel to receive education. The number of international schools in Shanghai is currently 32, but it was 5 in 1995. Except some monolingual school like Shanghai Japanese school, the main teaching language in international schools is English. During English language learning classes, students receive different education according to their levels. 　　This study mainly focuses on the standard-level non-native English students in one international school called Shanghai High School International Division.(SHSID) Although having been studying in English-based curriculum for long time, the learners still need to improve their oral proficiency to express themselves. Furthermore, the language teachers perpetually face the problem of their diversified language and cultural background. 　　Error analysis has long been the tool to identify learners’ errors and to obtain learners’ difficulties in language learning since Corder in 1967. In this paper, the author has collected some data from Asian English learners in SHSID. Through error analysis, the purpose of this study is to find the common errors committed by Asian English learners in oral English and to examine whether there is significant co-relationship between the frequency of common errors and their language background, and their length of study in international schools. The result of the study may give some hint to the further oral English teaching to diversified students. 　　2. The Study 　　2.1 Subjects 　　The subjects are 21 Asian students studying in the same standard level of English class in Grade 11 (age 16) in SHSID. Their family language is not English, but they all have received English-based education in international schools for some years. They have different language background, different length of studying English, and different study ex