Error analysis is the process of identifying, classifying, and describing errors made by language learners. It provides insight into common difficulties faced by learners in speaking or writing a target language. There are two types of errors - mistakes, which occur when a learner does not apply a known rule consistently, and errors, which occur when a rule has not been learned. Sources of errors include influence from the learner's native language, incorrect transfer of rules within the target language, and issues related to the learning context and process. The document then describes a methodology for conducting error analysis on student assignments, categorizing the errors found, and analyzing the results.

1. Error Analysis

2. Error analysis is an activity to
identify, classify and interpret or
describe the errors made by
someone in speaking or in
writing.
It is carried out to obtain
information on common
difficulties faced by someone in
speaking or in writing English
sentences.
(Brown.1980), Richards(1985), Crystal (1987)

3. Mistake and Error
According to Norrish:
Error is a systematic
deviation, when a learner
has not learnt something
and consistently gets it
wrong.

4. According to Norrish:
Mistake is an
inconsistent deviation
that is sometimes the
learner ‘gets it right’
but sometimes wrong

6. A mistake is made by a learner because he
does not apply the rule that he actually
knows, in other words, a mistake is a non
systematic deviation from the norms of the
language.

8. Sources of Errors
1. Interlingual transfer
It is the negative influence of the mother
tongue of learner.

9. Intralingual transfer:
It is the negative transfer of items within the
target language.

10. • Context of learning
• Interference
• Overgeneralization
• Performance error
• Carelessness
• Translation

11. Methodology
• Application
• Forwarded it for approval
• Different departments
• Checked assignments
• Analyzed
• Categorized
• Presented in the form of charts

12. Analysis of results
• The results show that students in these
assignments have committed eight common
errors.
• These errors are:
(1) Tense
(2) Word order
(3) Singular/plural form
(4) Subject-verb agreement
(5) Punctuation
(6) Spellings
(7) Capitalization
(8) Articles.

13. Errors occurred in the assignments of the
Department of Psychology
tense article

14. Errors occurred in the assignments of the
Department of Sociology

15. Errors occurred in the assignments of the
Department of Economics

16. Errors occurred in the assignments of the
Department of Management Sciences

17. Cap

18. Conclusion
• Required in developing or increasing the techniques
• Teacher can concentrate on the materials in which most
learners made error
• Evaluate
• Group activities
• Peer correction
• Self correction
• Learning steps

19. • Thanks 