Limitation of the Study
Heidi Dulay said that errors are the flawed side of learner speech or writing. They are those parts of conversation or composition that deviate from
some selected norm of mature language performance.
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We use “error” to refer
to any deviation from a selected norm of language performance, no matter what the characteristics or causes of the deviation might be. According to
Peter Hubbard et al, so far all incorrect forms produced by the student we have called “errors”.
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Carl James defines Error Analysis as the process of determining the incidence, nature, causes and also the consequences of unsuccessful
language.
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According to H. Douglas Brown, The fact that learners do make errors, and that these errors can be observed, analyzed, and classified to
reveal something of the system operating within the learner, led to a surge of
study of learners’ errors, called error analysis.
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So, in this study the writer would like to observe, analyze and classify
learner’s error in mastering regular and irregular verbs.