A Linguistic Approach to Error Analysis in Teaching of English as a Second Language
A Linguistic Approach to Error Analysis in Teaching of English as a Second Language

Summary/Abstract: Errors are studied in order to find out something about the foreign language learning process. Error analysis (EA) involves collecting errors, studying them, classifying them in various ways and suggesting possible causes. Language teachers have been doing this for years but recently, partly as a result of increased interest in psycholinguistic research, attempts have been made to consider more systematic and formal analyses of errors. Whatever the reason for these errors, analysis shows where most remedial teaching is need and may suggest ways of approaching it. By describing and classifying students’ errors in linguistic terms, we build up a picture of the features of the language which are causing learning problems.

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