Die Unausweichlichkeit von Fehlern beim Fremdsprachenlernen
Making Mistakes: An Unavoidable Aspect of Learning Foreign Languages

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the problem of errors against the background of recent foreign language acquisition theories. As we can notice in FLL, making mistakes accompanies foreign language acquisition: errors are a psychic phenomenon, but in FLL they are often due to insufficient work mechanisms of language production or voice recording. Research shows that the majority of all error has a universal character, i.e. mistakes are on the one hand independent of the learner’s mother tongue, on the other hand of the learning method, and finally they are to be found at certain levels of proficiency. Mistakes can help enhance the quality of the learning process, when their inventory is properly used for diagnostic purposes.

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