The Differences Between Mistake and Error
a period of weeks, months, or oven years in order to determine patterns of change in error occurrence with increasing L2 exposure and proficiency.
2. Identification of errors
The first step in the analysis requires determination of elemements in the sample of learner language which deviate from the target L2 in some way. The
indentification of error involves a comparison between what the learner has produced and what a native speaker counterpart would produce in the same
context. 3.
Description of errors The description of error involves specify how the form by the learner differ
from target form. For purposes of analysis, errors are usually clasified according to language level whether and error is phonological, morphological, syntactic
etc. General lingustic category e.g. auxiliary system, passive sentence, negative sentence, negative construction. Or more specific lisngustic elements e.g.
articles, preposition, verb form. 4.
Explanation of errors Accounting for why an error was made is the most important step in trying to
understand the processes of
SLA
. Two of the most likely causes of L2 errors are interlingual and intralingual factors.
5. Evaluation of errors
This step involves analysis on what effect the error has on whoever is being addressed. According to Ellis, the design of error evaluation studies involves
decision on who the addressees e.i. the judges will be, what errors they will be asked to judge, and how they will asked to judged them.
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morever, in the evaluation of errors the teacher may asks the adressees of error then try to correct
the error by themselves. There evaluation of error includes the following steps: a.
Selected the errors to be evaluated b.
Decides the criterion on which the errors are to be judged c.
Prepare the error evaluation instrument d.
Choose the judges.
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Ellis, op. cit., p. 56.