Overview of error analysis

Overview of error analysis

1. What is an error?

   • An error is a form in learner language tahat is innaccurate.
     • What is error analysis?
       • It is a method used to document the errors that appear in learner language, it determines whether those errors are systematic and explain them; an error analysis should focus on errors that are systematic violations of patterns in the input to which the learners have been exposed.
         • How to do an error analysis?
           • 1. Identify all the errors in a sample of learner language
             • First you have to analyse what the learner tried to say and how he or she should have said it. determine how many possibles ways to reconstruct the error. the way a teacher reconstruct a learner error depends on what the teacher thinks the intended message is.
               • Overview of error analysis. (s/f). Umn.edu. https://carla.umn.edu/learnerlanguage/error_analysis.html
           • 2. Explain the errors
             • Once that the systematic errors were identified in the sample of learner language, it is time to start thinking about what might have caused those errors. there are a lot of possibilities, one of them could be due to native language transfer (using a rule or pattern from the native language)
           • Error analysis focuses only on accuracy, that is just one of three ways of describing learner language: accuracy, complecity and fluency.

2. Jonathan Haro