Summary Of Error Analysis

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performance errors have been called “mistakes” while term “errors” was reserved for the systematic deviations due to the learners still developing knowledge of the L2 rule system (Corder, 1967)

2. The Error Anaysis Movement

The Errors Analysis was the refreshing alternative analysis to the previous approach which called “Contrastive Analysis” (CA). The contrastive analysis treatment of errors, which was popular up through the 1960’s, rested on a comparison of the learner’s native and target languages. It held that learning was basically a process of forming automatic habits and that error should therefore result from first language habits interfering with the learner’s attempts to learn new linguistic behaviors. It was thought that Ca of the learner’s two languages would predict the areas in the target language that would pose the most difficulty.
Attentive teachers and researchers, however, noticed that a great number of student errors could not possibly be traced to ...

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a consequence, EA came away with a rich source of explanation for the many as yet unexplained but frequently observed student errors. The EA movement can be characterized as an attempt to account for learner errors that could not be explained or predicted by CA or behaviorist theory, and to bring the field of applied linguistics into step with the current climate theoretical opinion. In these aspects Ea has been most successful because of some reasons:

1. It has made a significant contribution to theoretical consciousness-raising of applied linguistics and language practitioners.
2. It has brought the multiple origins of learner’s errors to our attention
3. It has succeeded in ...

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