The document discusses error analysis in second language acquisition, defining interlanguage and detailing the types, sources, and significance of errors. It outlines the procedures for error analysis, which include collecting, identifying, and correcting errors, and emphasizes its importance in improving teaching strategies and understanding learner difficulties. Additionally, it highlights the contributions of key scholars like Pit Corder in framing the theoretical and applied aspects of error analysis.

1. ERROR ANALYSIS:
THE STUDY OF
LEARNERS
INTERLANGUAGE
Kris Mae D. Sayson

2. • Interlanguage
• Error Analysis
• Procedures of error analysis
• Sources of Error
• Issues in error analysis
TOPIC OUTLINE

3. • Define the following:
-Interlanguage
-Error and Error analysis
• Identify the different types of error
• Sources of error
• Describe the process or error analysis
Objectives

4. • The term was defined by Larry Salinker
in 1972.
• A linguistic system used by second
language learners.
• It is a type of language produced by
second and foreign language learners
who are in the process of learning a
language.
INTERLANGUAGE

5. • Random errors
• Stage with identifiable errors
• Systematic stage with rules
closer to the target language
• Stabilization stage with few
errors
INTERLANGUAGE
4 stages:

6. • Rules are altered
• Rules are deleted
• Rules are added.
INTERLANGUAGE RULES:
Learner’s Interlanguage changes
with time.

7. An ERROR: Is a faulty utterance
produced by language learners
as a result of incomplete
knowledge.
ERROR

8. • A systematic deviation from the rules of
the target language.
• An error is the use of a word, speech, or
grammatical items in such a way it
seems imperfect and indicates an
incomplete learning.
ERROR

9. • Behaviorist:
Errors are signs
of learning
failure.
HOW ERROR SEEN BY
SCHOLARS?
• Cognitivist:
Errors are signs
of language
development.

10. • The process of studying and analyzing the
errors which are made by second language
learners.
• It studies the types and causes of errors.
ERROR ANALYSIS

11. • Error Analysis is a linguistic analysis that
focuses on the errors learners make by
comparing between the errors made in the
target language.
• Error analysis is an important source of
information to teachers.
ERROR ANALYSIS

12. • It provides information on student’s errors.
• Helps teacher to correct students errors.
• Improves the effectiveness of teachers,
students, researchers- Michaelides (1990)
ERROR ANALYSIS

13. • Pit Corder (1967) “Father of Error Analysis
through his article “The significance of
Learners Errors”
• Corder defines EA as what has come to be
known as error analysis has to do with the
investigation of the language of second
language learners.
ERROR ANALYSIS

14. • Corder suggest that there are two
justifications for studying learners
errors:
1. Its relevance to language teaching
2.The study of the language acquisition
process.
ERROR ANALYSIS

15. • According to Corder error analysis has
two objects
1. The theoretical objects deals with what and how
learner learns when he studies a second
language.
2.The applied object enables the learner to learn
more efficiently by manipulating knowledge of
his vernacular academic purposes.
ERROR ANALYSIS

16. Corder (1967) identified a model for error analysis
which includes these steps.
• Collecting
• Identifying
• Describing
• Explaining
• Evaluating/Correcting the errors
PROCEDURES OF ERROR ANALYSIS

17. • They can be categorized in two domains:
1.Interlingual transfer
• (transfer from the mother tongue or any other
previously learned language) in foreign language it is
a major cognitive strategy that learners fall back on
when their linguistic means falls short of achieving
their communicative ends.
SOURCES OF ERRORS

18. • They can be categorized in two domains:
2.Intralingual transfer
Intralingual transfer refers to the influence of one's
native language on the learning or use of a second
language. It occurs when learners transfer linguistic
features, such as grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation,
or discourse patterns, from their first language to the
target language.
SOURCES OF ERRORS

19. SOURCES OF ERRORS
• Errors due to the influence of the native language
in learning L2 are called interlingual errors.
• Interlingual errors are also called transfer or
interference errors.
• Error analysis helps to understand the process os
second language acquisition.

20. Error analysis is useful in second language
learning because it reveals to us.
• Teaching strategies
• Syllabus designing
• Textbook writers of what the problems
areas are.
ISSUES IN ERROR ANALYSIS

21. • Error analysis helps to understand the
process of second language acquisition.
• Error analysis shows the troublesome
linguistic areas or errors that L2 learners
encounter in learning
ISSUES IN ERROR ANALYSIS

22. • The errors give valuable feedback to both
teachers and learners regarding strategies
and progress.
• The error also provides research with
insights into the nature of SLA.
ISSUES IN ERROR ANALYSIS

23. ISSUES IN ERROR ANALYSIS
• Error Analysis serves three purposes.
1. To find out the level of language proficiency
the learner has reached.
2.To obgain information about common
difficulties in language learning
3.To find our how people learn a language.

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