The role of error Flashcards
Errors
The occur when learners try to say something that is beyond their current level of knowledge or language processing.
Slips
They are the result of tiredness, worry or other temporary emotions or circumstances. In other words, we are not concentrated in what we are saying or writing.
Interference.
Learners may use sound patterns, lexis or grammatical structures from their mother tongue.
Developmental error.
Learners are unconciously working out, organising and experimenting with the language they have learnt, but this process is not yet complete.
Overgeneralization.
To apply a rule too widely.
Learners interlanguage.
The learners’ own version of the second language which they speak as they learn. This is not fixed, it develops and progresses as learners learn more.
Ways of helping learners develop their language.
Exposure, interaction and be aware of the forms.
Fossilised errors.
These ones are errors which a learner does not stop making and which last for a long time, even for ever, in his/her foreign language. They can be the result of a lack of exposure to the L2.
