interlanguageerrors-141113070116-conversion-gate01.pptx

interlanguageerrors-141113070116-conversion-gate01.pptx

1. M2 MEEF November 2014 Analysing interlanguage errors Tarone, E., & Swierzbin, B. (2009). Exploring learner language . Oxford University Press.

2. interlanguage ❖ ❖ ❖ native speakers see their own language (NL) as rule- governed , even if they cannot articulate all the rules they perceive a second language learner’s language as characterised by mistakes and errors yet learner language is also rule-governed ; the linguistic system of learner language has been called interlanguage auto nom y of learner language

3. systematic linguistic analysis of learner language ❖ ❖ pronunciation => phonology grammar => morphology syntax ❖ vocabulary => lexicon

4. learner errors ❖ as teachers and fluent speakers of the target language, some features of learner language “jump out” at us ❖ foreign accent or grammatical errors are often most noticeable ❖ our first impressions are often based on exchanges of only a few words

5. intended meaning ❖ “learner language is linguistic system that is in the process of formation and learners are typically very uncertain of many of the rules they use” (Tarone & Swierzbin, 2009, p. 24) error analy sis

6. procedure for error analysis 1. identify the errors Prepare a reconstruction of the sample as you think it would have been produced by the learner’s NS counterpart under similar circumstances There may be more or one possible reconstruction. id ent if y ing errors

7. procedure for error analysis identify the errors explain the errors mistake or error? error due to transfer? intralingual error? communication strategy? something else? There may be more than one possible explanation. exp laining errors

8. classifying errors Name of learner/ time stamp phrase with error (phonology/ morphology/ syntax/lexis) target language reconstruction cause of error

9. Reading ❖ L ig h t b own, P . M., Spa d a, N., Ranta, L., & Rand, J. (2006). How languages are learned (Vol. 2). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ❖ Tarone, E., & Swierzbin, B. (2009). Exploring learner language . Oxford University Press. Learning and Teaching Foreign Languages http://unt.unice.fr/uoh/learn_teach_FL/ http://www.scoop.it/t/telt/