Second Language Learning Errors

Second Language Learning Errors

1. TYPES

   • Local
     • Do not hinder Communication
     • Involve noun and verb inflections
     • Involves use of preposition, articles, etc.
   • Global
     • Interfere with communication
     • Involves wrong word order.

2. CAUSES

   • Intralingual - Caused by the difficulty of the second language
     • Simplification
       • Students choose simple forms rather than complex
     • Overgeneralization
       • one form applied in other contexts
     • Hypercorrection
       • Teachers' efforts to correct induce student to make errors
     • Faculty Teaching
       • Students' errors are teacher's errors too
     • Fossilization
       • Errors specially in pronunciation persist for a long time.
     • Avoidance
       • Syntactic structure difficult to produce by learnesrs
     • Inadequate Learning
       • Caused by ignorance or rule restrictions.
     • False concepts Hypothesized
       • Wrong Hypothesis formed by students
   • Interlingual - Caused by the native language

3. Treatments

   • Correct errors affecting intelligibility
     • Errors that interfere with meaning
   • Frequency
     • Gerenal errors more than less frequent errors.
   • Emphisis
     • Correcting moro common errors
   • More attention
     • Stigmatizing or irritating errors
   • Relevance
     • Pedagogical errors

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