Errors in Language Learning and Use

Writing Error: A Review of Interlingual and Intralingual Interference in EFL Context

“…When taking into account intralingual error, this unnecessary insertion "about" may result from false analogy (James, 1998). This is because some writers may learn that it is correct when the word "about" is collocated with the word "talk" and "think" to form the collocations "talk about" and "think about".…”

“…This coincides with Leech (1998, cited in Dagneaux, Denness, & Granger, 1998 stating that students exhibit remarkable lexical errors because the lexis is built up from an open system. The formation of words are irregular and unsystematic (James, 1998). Therefore, unlike grammatical structure, lexis cannot be generalized into any specific rule.…”

“…Apart from the studies focused on L1 lexical interference mentioned above, this paper also aims to discuss two main types of semantic errors in lexis based on James (1998). These are confusion of sense relation and collocational error.…”

“…Apart from sentence construction and sentence boundary, James (1998) proposes errors caused by misordering, which is one of the most common errors found in EFL writing. In regard to this error, misordering is a failure to arrange words in a sentence in the right order based on word-order regulation in English, such as in the following.…”

“…In addition to language and classroom based errors, James (1998) proposes four sources of errors as 'interlingual and intralingual errors, communication strategy-based and induced errors.…”