ERROR,ERRORS ANALYSIS AND ERROR CORRECTION Why focus on what is wrong rather than what is right.
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Researcher and teachers begun to undesrtand that L2 learning is: Creative process / constructive system/ conscoiusly
testing hypothesis / make sense of the TLg
Thru sources of knowledge (to provide order to ss Lg
system)
Target Lg
Lg in general
Life/ people
Native Lg
universe
Communicative Functions
Compares languages to determine potential errors and identify what needs to be learned and what does not.
A priori or strong view: will predict learning outcomes
A posterior or weak view: will help explain learning outcomes, especially errors.
Contrastive analysis
1950s, Robert Lado, Selinker and Gass (1980s)
Productive errors are those which occur in the language learner's utterances.
Receptive or interpretive errors are those which result in the listener's misunderstanding of the speaker's intentions.
GLOBAL ERROR LOCAL ERROR is one which involves
"the overall structure of a sentence"
is one which affects "a particular element." Richards, et al. (1985:123)
An error can vary in magnitudeIt can cover a phoneme, a morpheme, a word, a phrase, a
sentence, or even a paragraph
omission of some required element addition of some unnecessary or
incorrect element selection of an incorrect element misordering of elements.
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