Error Analysis and Specifics of Interlanguage as a Tool for Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Languagе
Error Analysis and Specifics of Interlanguage as a Tool for Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Languagе

Author(s): Kaouni Pinelopi
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning
Published by: ЮГОЗАПАДЕН УНИВЕРСИТЕТ »НЕОФИТ РИЛСКИ«
Keywords: error analysis; interlanguage; error treatment
Summary/Abstract: English language has reinforced its role as the most prominent worldwide language, a ''linqua franca'' and has a significant influence in international media, business and politics. Therefore, English teachers ought to encourage their students to be more interested in English language and offer dynamic activities being focused on the most frequent errors that are learners commit in the target language. For that reason, linguists who have dealt with the term language extensively try to find out the causes of the problems and the approaches that have to be applied in language teaching so these problematic areas to be minimized. They propose error analysis and Interlanguage theory as these studies grant knowledge on the difficulties that learners of English tend to struggle with. This paper focuses on the relation between Interlanguage and Error Analysis by presenting the advantages and disadvantages of both theories aiming at improving the teaching and learning English as a foreign language

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