SLA-Learner’s Error & Error Analysis.pptx

SLA-Learner’s Error & Error Analysis

1. Learner’s Error & Error Analysis

2. Error: Reflect gaps in a learners’ knowledge; they occur because the learner does not know what is correct. Mistake: Reflect occasional lapses in performance; they occur because the learner is unable to perform what he/she knows. Error and Mistakes

3. 1. Check the consistency of learners’ performance. 2. Ask learners to try to correct their own utterances. Where they are unable to, the deviations ar errors; where they are succesful, they are mistakes. How do we identify errors and mistakes?

4. 1. Why do learners make error? 2. What errors learners make? 3. It is possible that making errors may actually help learners to learn whe they self-correct the errors they make.

5. L2 learners are not alone in making errors. Children learning their first language (L1) also make ‘errors’ (for example, Bloom 1970). They regularly produce utterances like the following: - I goes see Auntie May= I went to See Aunty May - No writing in book= Don’t write in the book Also, even adult native speakers sometimes make ‘errors.

6. Learners’ errors Comprehension It happens when a learner misunderstand the sentence: “Pass me the paper” as “Pass me the pepper” Production It happens when a learner produce an utterance that is generally viewed as ‘unwanted forms’ . e.g. Eating ice cream. (= I want to eat ice cream)

7. Steps of Error Analysis 1. Identifying Errors 2. Describing Errors 3. Explaining Errors 4. Evaluating Errors Error Analysis

8. Please read the following text in the next slide. It is a transcription of a story based on a series of pictures, told by Jean, an adult French learner of English. He told the story orally after writing it before. 1. Identifying Errors

9. For example: A man and a little boy was watching him. It (was) should be were .......went in the traffic. A native speaker would probably prefer to say: ......... Went into the traffic The big of them contained a snake. One way of reconstructing the correct sentence is: The bigger of them contained a snake ? To identify errors we have to compare the setences learners produce with the correct one

10. 1. Classify errors into grammatical categories 2. Try to identify general ways in which the learners’ utterances differ from the reconstructed target-language utterances. 3. Use a surface strategy taxonomy of errors a. Omission b. Aidditions c. Misinformation d. Misordering 2. Describing Errors

11. To explain why errors occur? 1. Omission e.g. Learners leave out the articles ‘a’ and ‘the’ and leave the –s of plural nouns 2. Overgeneralization Learners make overgeneralization structure e.g. The use of ‘eated’ in place of ‘ate’ 3. Transfer Errors Learners create their own rules and attemps to make use of their L1 language. 3. Explaining Errors

12. a. Global Errors Violate the overall structure of a sentence and for this reason may make it difficult to process. E.g. The policeman was in the corner whistle Errors Evaluation

13. b. Local Errors Affect only a single constituent in the sentence. E.g. The verb, are, perhaps, less likely to create any problems