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Table of contents
Introduction of errors
Error analysis
Data collection samples
Students profile
Evidence of errors
Suggested intervention
Justification
References
Introduction of errors
learners will make mistakes in the process of acquisition, and that process will be impeded
if they do not commit errors and then benefit from various forms of feedback on those
errors.
Errors produced by unwanted forms, transitional forms, or slips of the tongue.
Error analysis
Types of
errors
Competence
Performance
Phonological
Morphological
Lexical
Syntactic
Error analysis
Forms of
errors
Intralingual
Substitution
Permutation
Omission
Addition
Interlingual
Students profile
Amna Mohammad
Fatima Abdulla
Mahra Mohammad
School
Age
9 yrs. old.
9 yrs. old.
9 yrs. old.
Language
L1: Arabic
L2: English for 4 years
L1: Arabic
L2: English for 4 years
L1: Arabic
L2: English for 4 years
Time of
studying L2
Level
Law
Middle
Middle
Use of L2
Amna
Writing
Speaking
Error
Teacher and girl and boy and water.
Correction
The teacher is writing on the board.
The students are drying the water of
the floor.
1. No space
2. Substitution
3. Omission
Correction
I can see a teacher.
The girl is painting.
Fatima
Writing
Correction
I see a boy, he rides the bike.
The girl is playing jumping rope.
1. No space
2. Substitution
3. Omission
Speaking
Error
I see the she play.
1. Lexical
2. Morphological
Mahra
Writing
Speaking
Correction
The zebra is eating.
The people are taking some photos of
the snake.
Error
She is jumping.
He is play.
1. Substitution
2. Omission
3. Addition
1. Lexical
Suggested intervention
Talk in English all the time.
Using reading classes.
Creating variety types of activities.
Justification
English errors produced by speakers from eleven different language backgrounds and
classified them by their linguistic type.
Writing: there were some words with missing letters, substitute the letters, and adding
words. Also, using capitalization at the beginning of the sentences.
Speaking: translating sentences, changing the order of the sentences.
References
Heydari, P., & Bagheri, M. (2012, August). Error Analysis: Sources of L2 Learners Errors.
Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2(8), 1583-1584. doi:10.4304/tpls.2.8.15831589
Kaani, L. (2014, August). Grammatical mistakes of Albanian students in learning English
as a foreign language. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 5(19), 325.
doi:10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n19p323
Touchie, H. Y. (1986). SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING ERRORS. 8(1), 76-77.
Writing Error Pattern Analysis. (2006-2015). Retrieved November 15, 2015, from Teaching
@ CSU: http://teaching.colostate.edu/guides/erroranalysis/