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The NATURE OF LEARNER LANGUAGE. Fajar Cita W 2201410010. Identifying errors. To identify errors we have to compare the sentences learners produce with what seem to e the normal or ‘correct’ sentences in the target language which correspond with them.
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The NATURE OF LEARNER LANGUAGE FajarCita W 2201410010
Identifying errors To identify errors we have to compare the sentences learners produce with what seem to e the normal or ‘correct’ sentences in the target language which correspond with them
How can we distinguish errors and mistakes • Check the consistency of leaners’ performance • Try to correct leaners’ own deviant utterances.
Describing errors • Classify errors into gramatical categories • Identify general ways in which the leaner’s utterances differ from the reconstructed target language utterances. • Ommision (leaving out an item that is requred for an utterance to be considered grammatical)
Explaining Errors • The identification and description of errors are preliminaries to the much more interesting task of trying to explain why they occur
Explaining Errors • Omission Errors e.g They leave out the article ‘a’ and ‘the’and leave the –s plural nouns. • An overgeneralization Errors e. g the use of ‘eated’ in place of ‘ate’ • Transfer Errors leaners’s attempts to make use of their L1 language (Leaners create their own rules).
Developmental patterns • The early stages of L2 acquisition • The order of acquisition • Sequence of acquisition • Some implicationsications
The early stages of L2 acquisition • Acquisition Order Leaners begin to learn the grammar of theL2. • The sequence of acquisition Leaners learn particular grammaticalstructure, such as past tense.
The order of acquisition To investigate the order of Acquisition, • Choose a number of grammaticalstructures to study • Collect samples of learner • Identify how accurately each feature is used by different leaners.
Sequence of acquisition • Must be seen as a process involving transitional constructions. • Transitional construction • U-shaped course of development • Restructuring
Some implications • Some linguistic features (particularly grammatical) are inherently easier to learn than others. • Example learners master plural –s before third person –s • it has implication for both SLA theoryand for language teaching.
Variability in learner language • Variability in learner language is systematic because learners use their linguistic sources in predictable ways • The use of specific grammatical forms has been shown to vary according to the linguistic context, the situational context, and psycholinguistic context