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Reasons for concentring on learners’ Errors

Second Language Acquisition

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Researcher and teachers begun to undesrtand that L2 learning is: Creative process / constructive system/ conscoiusly

testing hypothesis / make sense of the TLg

Thru sources of knowledge (to provide order to ss Lg

system)

Target Lg

Lg in general

Life/ people

Native Lg

universe

Communicative Functions

Compares languages to determine potential errors and identify what needs to be learned and what does not.

A priori or strong view: will predict learning outcomes

A posterior or weak view: will help explain learning outcomes, especially errors.

Contrastive analysis

1950s, Robert Lado, Selinker and Gass (1980s)

Productive errors are those which occur in the language learner's utterances.

Receptive or interpretive errors are those which result in the listener's misunderstanding of the speaker's intentions.

GLOBAL ERROR LOCAL ERROR is one which involves

"the overall structure of a sentence"

is one which affects "a particular element." Richards, et al. (1985:123)

An error can vary in magnitudeIt can cover a phoneme, a morpheme, a word, a phrase, a

sentence, or even a paragraph

 omission of some required element addition of some unnecessary or

incorrect element selection of an incorrect element misordering of elements.

Tarea para cada habilidad y sub-habilidad dar un ejemplo claro de errores que comúnmente los compañeros cometen con base en:. Habilidades

Speaking, listening , reading ,writing Sub-habilidades

Grammar, pronuntiation, lexis