Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Errors and Mistakes
- Error
- Definition: A
deficiency in linguistic
knowledge.
- Mistakes
- Mainly a problem of
information retrieval,
students know the
correct grammar
structure, the correct
word, pronunciation.
You don´t recall it at the
moment when you need
to.
- Source of
errors
- Interlingual
- The learne´s first
language interferes with
production of the second
language.
- Intralingual
- The learner learns a rule in
the second language, but
either over generalizes it or
applies it incorrectly.
- Simplification
- Also knows as
redundancy
reduction.
- Induced
- Results from
inssuficient or incorrect
explication
- Environmental
- Variations in
students´environment
- Areas of error
- Structure
- Syntax, phonology,
phonetics, and
morphology.
- Can cloud the
intended meaning of
the message.
- Lexicon
- Word choice
- Writing structure
- Not using English conventions in
punctuation or capitalization.
- Discourse
- The appropriateness of
language in a given situation
- Techniques
- Self correction
- Students correct their
own errors.
- Pinpointing
- The teacher`s localizing an error
without giving it away.
- Rephrasing questions
- Suggest rephrasing the
question in order to reduce
the number of words.
- Cueing
- When the teacher gives the
grammatical variation of a key
content word
- Generating simple
sentences
- Like rephrasing the
questions
- Explain key words
- This can be done by writiing a difficult
word in the board or by actigin it out
- Questioning
- If the uses a word that
the teacher does not
understand, the teacher
should ask a question
about it.
- Repetition
- Repeat the error containing the
error
- Grammatical terms
- Localizing an error by mentioning what
function it plays in the sentence can be
limited used.
- Gestures
- Errors can be corrected nonverbally.
- Yes/ No
- Nodding or shaking the head
will get a student to continue or
stop an utterance
- Stop
- Holding the palms
toward a student will
stop an unwanted
interrumtion
- Syntax
- Flipping one
hand over the
other will let a
student know
that the word
order is wrong.
- Number
- Singular can be
indicated with one
finger.
- Stress
- It is a nonverbal way to
indicate which syllable of
a word carries the stress.
- Elison
- The teacher puts the palms parallel
to each othe and then moves them
closer together in a pushing motion.
- Missing word
- A gesture to show that
the student has left a
word out.
- Tense
- A gesture of the hand ca
indicate that a sentence
should be in the past or in
the future.
- Grammatical terms
plus gestures
- Localizing an error by
mentioning what
function it plays in the
sentence can
havelimited use.