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Error Analysis
Error Analysis
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Classification of Errors
Appropriateness
1. Referential Errors
Errors refer to something or someone, such as:
* a guitar a banjo
* a scottish kilt a skirt
2. Register Errors
Errors in using the correct register, such as:
* a boat a ship
* a house a home
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Classification of Errors
Appropriateness
3. Social Errors
Errors committed due to the wrong choice of terms in
connection with the social relations between the speaker
and hearer, for example: when a child greet his father with
“Hello, old man”
4. Textual Errors
Errors committed because of the wrong structure used, for
example: “Who is he talking to? John is”
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Types of Errors
Productive Errors
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Types of Errors
Receptive Errors
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Another Classification of Errors (Jack C. Richards)
1. Inter-lingual Errors
Errors refer to the relation between two or more
languages.
2. Intra-lingual Errors
Errors show that the learners of TL is attempting
to build up theories/hypotheses about TL from his
limited experience or knowledge.
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Intra-lingual Errors
1. Over-generalization
The result of the learner reducing of two or more stuctures into
erroneous one. For example:
• He can sings….
• We are lack….
• He come from….
• Yesterday I eat breakfast….etc.
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Intra-lingual Errors
Global Errors
Local Errors
Global Errors