Types of Language Learning Errors and Their Sources
1.
2. Deviant form of language unacceptable by the
speaker of the standard version because of its
deviation from the accepted norm.
3. Types of Errors
Inter-lingual:
That arise from
conflict between
the TL and L1.
Intra-lingual:
While Intra-lingual are
those the learners
encounter in the TL.
E.X:
1- Overgeneralization.
2- False analogies.
4. Other researchers contend that errors categorized as:
Unique:
That are neither
developmental
nor interference.
Interference:
That are reflect L1
structure in the
speech of L2.
Developmental:
That are similar to L1
errors.
5. Sources of Error
• The Learners
• Teaching Materials or Methods
• Difficulties inherent in the language
• Interference from LI and L2
6. • The Learners:
Errors caused by the learner's innate ability to learn language from
hypotheses which are tested and manifest themselves in the formation of
wrong analogies by over-generalization after observing some paradigms.
• Teaching Materials or Methods:
Errors caused by the teaching process itself. Certain types of teaching
techniques increase the frequency of over-generalized structure.
7. • Difficulties inherent in the language:
Errors caused by the complexity of a particular item being learnt, and the
difficult structures inherent within the target language.
• Interference from LI and L2:
Errors caused by the negative transfer from the L1 to the L2.
8. Making errors are a natural and unavoidable
part of this process. And the teacher should see
before consider error making as an integral part
of learning process.
