Error Analysis and Second Language Acquisition

Khansir, Ali Akbar

doi:10.4304/tpls.2.5.1027-1032

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“…It occurs when the learners is unmotivated, lacking in confidence, or concerned with failure. Research on error analysis and the EFL classroom teaching (Khansir, 2012 andFang &Xue-Mei, 2007) found that the learner of English as a second language is unaware of the existence of the particular system or rule in English language. So, it is suggested that teachers should employ different and flexible error treatment strategies in accordance with the teaching objectives, students' linguistic competence, their affective factors and the effectiveness of the error correction.…”

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Students’ Written Production Error Analysis in the EFL Classroom Teaching: A Study of Adult English Learners Errors

Sihombing¹,

Nissa²,

Estrelita³

2015

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Students’ Written Production Error Analysis in the EFL Classroom Teaching: A Study of Adult English Learners Errors

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Nissa²,

Estrelita³

2015

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“…The first resembles 'mistakes' since they are made when the learners are tired or hurried. The latter are more serious because they depict inadequate learning (Khansir, 2012). Burt (cited in Fang & Xue-mei, 2007) differentiated between "global" and "local" errors.…”

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“…With error analysis (EA), the emphasis is shifted from (L2) interference to (L2) inconsistencies and irregularities as a main source. The fundamental task of (EA) is to describe how learning occurs by examining the learners' output including their correct and incorrect utterances (Khansir, 2012). Richards (cited in ibid) considered (EA) a field that allocates the differences between the way people learning a language speak and the way adult native speakers of the language use it.…”

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“…Error Analysis (EA), a fundamental branch of applied linguistics, emerged in the sixties to address students' performance (Shrestha, 1979). More specifically, this approach is based on the hypothesis that the learners' errors do not only occur because of their mother tongue interference, a framework hypothesis of errors in second language acquisition adapted and addressed by Contrastive Analysis (CA), but they also happen due to some "universal strategies" (Khansir, 2012). Error analysis (EA) was established to create a change in attitudes towards the errors.…”

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A Linguistic Analysis on Errors Committed by Jordanian EFL Undergraduate Students: A Case of News Headlines in Jordanian Newspapers

Karazoun¹

2016

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This study investigated some linguistic errors committed by Jordanian EFL undergraduate students when translating news headlines in Jordanian newspapers from Arabic to English and vice versa. The data of the study was collected through a test composed of (30) English news headlines and (30) Arabic ones covering various areas of news occurring in a large corpus of Jordanian newspapers, i.e., two leading and prominent newspapers were selected. The test was administrated to a randomly selected sample consisting of (40 female, 20 male) third and fourth year undergraduate students in the Department of English Language and Literature in the Faculty of Educational Sciences and Arts at UNRWA University in Amman, Jordan. Results from the first analysis of the translated Arabic news headlines indicated that the EFL students had grammatical and lexical errors respectively. The second analysis of the translated Arabic news headlines showed that the EFL students had inadequate knowledge of the English headlines rules. The analysis of the translated English headlines revealed that the EFL students' main difficulties were grammatical followed by discoursal and lexical types. In light of these results, the researcher proposes a number of pedagogical recommendations related to translating news headlines and future research.

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“…In the same vein, Khansir (2012) stated that the significance of the errors is of high value to teachers for whom the identified errors can be considered as helpful devices to recognize the type and nature of the errors students are making. This identification can significantly result in implementing effective-teaching methods.…”

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A Structural Analysis of the Writing Errors Committed by Foundation Students at Arab Open University, Oman

Bakhshayesh¹

2015

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English is considered as Arab students' second language which is not used frequently in their daily conversations. Since writing in English is a challenging experience for Omani students, errors in grammar and sentence structures were identified in bridging language courses (foundation level 2) in the field of ESL (English as a Second Language). Learners' errors were considered positively as the best sources to identify students' limitations in English writing. The present study investigates the structure errors of Omani students' writings in English in foundation level 2 at Arab Open University. The focal aim is to study the errors that Omani students commit when they are using adjectives + nouns, indefinite articles, and subordinate conjunction "because". Results show that Omani students committed the following common errors: misplacement of adjectives, omission of the indefinite articles, and wrong structure of the subordinate conjunction (because). The prime aim of this study is to examine the students' aforementioned structural errors which are the result of the interference of their mother-tongue. In order to achieve these aims, students were asked to write two different topics. Finally, this research suggests further recommendations for further studies which might ameliorate students' learning by adopting appropriate strategies for teaching. Keywords Writing errors analysis, foundation English, Omani studentsWriting is one of the most important skills which appears to be extremely challenging and different experience compared with other language acquisition skills for Arab native speakers. As Abdulkareem (2013) stated in his research on Arab learners' problems in academic writing "Most students commit many mistakes related to sentence structure" (Abdulkareem 2013(Abdulkareem : 1553. In this study, evidently, the most frequent errors that Arab students committed were mainly the misplacement of the adjective and noun, omission of indefinite article, and wrong structure of subordinate conjunction-"because". The reason behind choosing writing skill is to observe and study how students express themselves and communicate which can be recorded as the best source of samples for studying .

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Error Analysis and Second Language Acquisition

Cited by 93 publications

References 25 publications

Students’ Written Production Error Analysis in the EFL Classroom Teaching: A Study of Adult English Learners Errors

Students’ Written Production Error Analysis in the EFL Classroom Teaching: A Study of Adult English Learners Errors

A Linguistic Analysis on Errors Committed by Jordanian EFL Undergraduate Students: A Case of News Headlines in Jordanian Newspapers

A Structural Analysis of the Writing Errors Committed by Foundation Students at Arab Open University, Oman

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