CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS

CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS

1. Speakers intuitively compare the language they are exposed to

   • And they rate the degree of relative difficulty caused by the similarities

2. Is divided into differentes disciplines

   • Contrastive analysis (CA)
     • Systematic comparison between the elements of those languages
   • Theory of translation (TT)
     • Is the search of equivalences between two texts
   • Error analysis (EA)
     • Identifies and explains the errors in second language

3. CA and other linguistic disciplines

   • Descriptive linguistics
   • Historical linguistics
   • Contrastive linguistics
   • Comparative linguistics
   • General linguistics

4. By identifying the similarities and differences amongst languages

   • CA predicts possible areas of difficulty for the L2 leamer