The NATURE OF LEARNER LANGUAGE
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The NATURE OF LEARNER LANGUAGE
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Identifying errors
To identify errors we have to compare the sentences learners produce with what seem to e the normal or ‘correct’ sentences in the target language which correspond with them
How can we distinguish errors and mistakes
Check the consistency of leaners’ performance
Try to correct leaners’ own deviant utterances.
Describing errors
1.Classify errors into gramatical categories2.Identify general ways in which the leaner’s
utterances differ from the reconstructed target language utterances.
3.Ommision (leaving out an item that is requred for an utterance to be considered grammatical)
Explaining Errors
• The identification and description of errors are preliminaries to the much more interesting task of trying to explain why they occur
Explaining Errors
Omission Errors e.g They leave out the article ‘a’ and ‘the’ and leave the –s plural nouns.
An overgeneralization Errorse. g the use of ‘eated’ in place of ‘ate’
Transfer Errorsleaners’s attempts to make use of their L1 language (Leaners create their own
rules).
Developmental patterns
The early stages of L2 acquisitionThe order of acquisitionSequence of acquisitionSome implicationsications
The early stages of L2 acquisition
Acquisition Order Leaners begin to learn the grammar of the L2.
The sequence of acquisitionLeaners learn particular grammatical
structure, such as past tense.
The order of acquisition
To investigate the order of Acquisition,Choose a number of grammatical
structures to studyCollect samples of learnerIdentify how accurately each feature is
used by different leaners.
Sequence of acquisition
Must be seen as a process involving transitional constructions.
Transitional construction U-shaped course of development Restructuring
Some implications
Some linguistic features (particularly grammatical) are inherently easier to learn than others.
Example learners master plural –s before third person –s
it has implication for both SLA theory and for language teaching.
Variability in learner language
• Variability in learner language is systematic because learners use their linguistic sources in predictable ways
• The use of specific grammatical forms has been shown to vary according to the linguistic context, the situational context, and psycholinguistic context