Mistakes and Errors

Mistakes and Errors

1. Mistakes of meaning

   • It affects meaning and communication
   • It doesn´t belong to the speaker intention
   • It is socially unacceptable

2. Mistakes of form

   • Sentences are not linguistically well constructed
     • Causes
       • Influence L1
       • Misunderstanding of a rule
       • Decision of communication
       • Lack of concentration
       • Mixture
     • Categories
       • Slips
         • Self-correction
       • Errors
         • No self-correction
       • Attemps
         • Words taken from L1

3. Error Analysis

   • Conducting an Error Analysis
     • Collection of samples of learner language
       • Types of data
         • Non-linguistic performance data
           • Measuring learner's reaction time
           • Measuring comprehension
           • Intuition about grammaticality
       • Sample of learner language
         • Naturally-occuring
           • Oral samples
             • Pencil-paper
             • Audio recording
             • Video recording
           • Written samples
         • Clinically elicited
           • Eliciting general samples
             • Communicative ¨gap¨tasks
             • Open role plays
             • Text reconstruction
             • Picture composition
           • Eliciting focused samples
             • Task naturalness
             • Task utility
             • Task essentialness
         • Experimentally-elicited
           • Discrete point tests
             • Tradiional language exercise formats
             • Cloze procedure
             • Elicited imitation and translation
           • Prompts
             • Sentence and discourse completion
             • Question and answer
       • Verbal reports
         • Self-report
         • Self-observation
         • Self-revelation (think-alouds)
         • Self-assessment
     • Identification of errors
       • Absolute errors
       • Dispreferred forms
     • Description of errors
       • Linguistic taxonomy
       • Surface structure taxonomy
     • Explanation of errors
       • Interlingual
       • Intralingual
     • Error evaluation
       • Error selection
       • Criterion
       • Evaluation instrument
       • Judges