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Dolly Ramos G. ERROR,ERRORS ANALYSIS AND ERROR CORRECTION Why focus on what is wrong rather than what is right. Reasons for concentring on learners’ Errors. Why focus on what is wrong rather than what is right. ( Corder 1981)Three. ‘ MISTAKE ’ VERSUS ‘ ERROR’. Sources of errors:.
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Dolly Ramos G ERROR,ERRORS ANALYSIS AND ERROR CORRECTIONWhy focus on what is wrong rather than what is right.
Reasons for concentring on learners’ Errors Why focus on what is wrong rather than what is right. (Corder 1981)Three
Second Language Acquisition ‘MISTAKE’ VERSUS ‘ERROR’
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) View of erros CommunicativeFunctions Target Lg NativeLg Lg in general universe Life/ people
Contrastiveanalysis 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. 1950s, Robert Lado, Selinker and Gass (1980s)
Productive vs Receptive • 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 Global error and local errorBurt and Kiparsky (1974)
omissionof some required element additionof some unnecessary or incorrect element selectionof an incorrect element misorderingof elements. Main CategoriesCorder (1973)
Tarea para cada habilidad y sub-habilidad dar un ejemplo claro de errores que comúnmente los compañeros cometen con base en:. • Habilidades • Speaking, listening , reading ,writing • Sub-habilidades • Grammar, pronuntiation, lexis ACTIVIDAD