The Nature of Learner Language

1. The Nature of Learner Language TutlaAyuhanna 2201410066

2. Errors and Error Analysis

3. Identifying Errors • Identifying Errors • Compare the sentences learners produce with what seem to be the normal or correct sentences in target language • were A man and a little boy was watching him

4. It is difficult to reconstruct the correct sentence because we are not sure what the learner meant to say. • The big of them contained a snake • The bigger of them contained a snake

5. How to Distinguish Errors and Mistakes Check the consistency of learners performance Ask learners to try to correct their own deviant utterances

6. Describing Errors • Several ways of classified the errors Classify errors into grammatical theories Try to identify general ways

7. Explaining Errors

8. Error Evaluation • Global Errors • Violate the overall structure of a sentence is and for this reason may make it difficult to process. • Local errors • Effect only a single constituent in the sentence

9. Developmental Pattern

10. The Early Stages of L2 Acquition • There are two particular characteristics The kind of formulaic chunks which we saw in the case of studies. Proportitional Simplification

11. The Order of Acquisition • There is a definite accuracy order and that this time remains more or less the same irrespective of the learners mother tongue, their age, and weather. • The order does vary somewhat according to learner’s first language.

12. Sequence of Acquisition • The acquisition of a particular grammatical structure, therefore, must be seen a process involving transitional constructions

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