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The Nature of Learner Language. Tutla Ayuhanna 2201410066. Errors and Error Analysis. Identifying Errors. Identifying Errors Compare the sentences learners produce with what seem to be the normal or correct sentences in target language were. A man and a little boy was watching him.
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The Nature of Learner Language TutlaAyuhanna 2201410066
Identifying Errors • Identifying Errors • Compare the sentences learners produce with what seem to be the normal or correct sentences in target language • were A man and a little boy was watching him
It is difficult to reconstruct the correct sentence because we are not sure what the learner meant to say. • The big of them contained a snake • The bigger of them contained a snake
How to Distinguish Errors and Mistakes Check the consistency of learners performance Ask learners to try to correct their own deviant utterances
Describing Errors • Several ways of classified the errors Classify errors into grammatical theories Try to identify general ways
Error Evaluation • Global Errors • Violate the overall structure of a sentence is and for this reason may make it difficult to process. • Local errors • Effect only a single constituent in the sentence
The Early Stages of L2 Acquition • There are two particular characteristics The kind of formulaic chunks which we saw in the case of studies. Proportitional Simplification
The Order of Acquisition • There is a definite accuracy order and that this time remains more or less the same irrespective of the learners mother tongue, their age, and weather. • The order does vary somewhat according to learner’s first language.
Sequence of Acquisition • The acquisition of a particular grammatical structure, therefore, must be seen a process involving transitional constructions