Syntactic Errors

Question 1

What are syntactic errors

Types of errors

Causes of the errors

Answer 1

second language learning is challenging

Student make a lot of mistakes

1960 - behaviosrim was popular error was undesirable, wrong and should be avoided

Errors valuable for teacher and students
Coder (1983) provide feedback about the effectiveness about language materials
About teaching
Reveal the strategies used for language acquisition
Reveals which parts need reinforcement

2types
Performance errors
Competence errors

Substitution replacing with wrong structures
Addition adding wrong structures
Permutation errors in word order
Omission - deletion of correct forms

Causes for the errors
Due to difficulty of language
Due to mother tongue

Over generalization
Simplification 
Fossilization
Hypercorrection 
False analogy
Faulty teaching

Question 2

Errors Sri Lankan ESL students make

Answer 2

Dissanayake and Dissanayake (2019)
•Word order errors
We necessary to learn english to go to future
Sinhala word order i fluence

• omission of copula
I also very happy
Absence of linking copula in sinhala

• addition of copula
I was went to town -over generalization

• errors in negation
But in some school there are not facilities and english teachers
No rigid structure in sinhala

• errors in modal verbs
If we cant english we face many problems
Thinking modal verb is enough

Abeywickrama,2010 errors due to mother tongue influence

Word order change in PPs
She him asked

Inappropriate usage of prepositions in cluses
We learnt from the lesson

Word order errors in coordination
I was ill because i took medecine