Contrastive Linguisties and Error Analysis In Language Teaching

1. STEPS IN DOING
ERROR
ANALYSIS
Created By:
Fransina Elisabeth Rumfaan 201212501172
Gerda Gekai 201212501147

2. Concept Of Error
 Error analysis is an activity
to reveal error found in writing
and speaking
 Richards (1985-96) state that
EA is the study of error made
by the second and foreign
learners

3. Steps of error
1. Recognition of error 2. Reconstruction of
error
1. Explanation of error
(1967-1974) identified a model for error analysis which
included three stages :

4. Meaning of Recognition
Recognition is a specific item type on which
the examinee is required to indicate which of
several underlined parts of a sentence is
unacceptable for formal written English, or to
indicate that the sentence contains no
“error”. (Harris, 1994).

5. .
Patien : I have trouble with my skin. It’s
very sensitive and irritable.
Doctor : Take this medicine twice a day.
But you should avoid to eat fish.
Rekha : Is your sister in college?
Jay : No, She work in the hospital.
Rekha : And studies in a Senior Hight School
Example 1 Example 2
EXAMPLE OF RICOGNITION

6. Meaning of Reconstruction
Error Reconstruction is a comparative
process, that is by comparing the
original erroneous sentence with the
reconstructed ones.

7. Example of Riconstruction
IDENTIFICATION OF ERRORS ERRORS CLASSIFICATION RICONTRUCTION OF ERROR
Last Sunday, my family and
I went holiday to Lido in
Sukabumi. Trip to there
needed three hours.
My family and I ___ break,
and than we eat together.
Next we went __ look
around we. Next my neice
and I went for swiming.
Next we need up boat while
enjoyed situation in lake but
_____rain, and
than we invalid.
Serious we still need
enjoyed situation in there
but __ rain
is heavy. Next, my family
and I Go to home.
tense
spelling, tense
preposition,
pronoun, spelling
spelling
tensesentence pattern
spelling
tense
tense
preposition
tense
tense
Last Sunday, my family and
I went holiday to Lido in
Sukabumi. Trip to there
needed three hours.
My family and I had break,
and then we ate together.
Next we went to look
around us. Next my niece
and I went for swimming.
Next we needed up boat
while enjoyed situation in
lake but it was rain, and
then we invalid.
Serious we still needed to
enjoy situation in there but
the rain was heavy. Next,
my family and I went to
home.

8. Meaning of Explanation
According of Corder (1981-128) “whereas
description of errors is largely a linguistic
activity, explanation is the field of
psycholinguistics. It is concerned with
accounting for why and how errors come
about.

9. Example of Explanation
IDENTIFICATION OF
ERROR
DEFINITION AND
ERROR
CLASSIFICATION
EXPLANATION OF
RULE
We put all the
equipments on the beach.
Noun
Unnecessary insertion of
plural marker -s
‘Equipment ‘ is
uncountable noun and
does not require the plural
marker -s
A large number of people
is sick.
Verb
Wrong combination of
subject and verb.
‘A large number’ refers to
more than one person, ie
plural subject, and
requires plural verb ‘are’:
A large number are sick’.
He is owing me ten
dollars.
Verb
Inappropriate verb
construction
‘Owe’is a stative verb and
does not require the-ing
participle.

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