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No. Linguistic Category and
Error Type Example of
Learner Error
Explanation
2 • Syntax
• Noun Phrase • Verb Phrase
• Verb-and-verb Con- struction
• Word Order • Some transforma-
tions • He put in the
his room • He in water
• I go play • The bird
object he was gonna
shoot it. • He not play
anymore • Use of pos-
sessive and the article
• Omission of to be
• Omission of to in identical
subject con- struction
• Repetition of the object
• Formation of no or not
without the auxiliary.
b. Surface Strategy Taxonomy Learner may omit necessary any morphemes or words
, add un- necessary ones
, misform items, or misorder them. Therefore, Dulay et al
divide the error based on surface strategy taxonomy into four categories. There are Omission, Addition, Misformation, and Mis-
order.
1. Omission
Omission errors are characterized by the absence of an item that must appear in a well-formed utterance. Content mor-
phemes carry the bulk of the referential meaning of a sentence: Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs.
Language learners omit gram- matical morphemes much more frequently than content words
Dulay, 154. For example:
a. Mary is the president of the new company.
1. Mary, president, new, company. Content Morpheme 2. Is, the, of, the. Grammatical Morpheme
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c. Marry the president of the new company. Omission of Grammatical Morpheme ‘is’
d. Marry is the president of the new. Omission of Content
Morpheme ‘Company’
2. Addition
Addition errors are the presence of an item which must not appear in a well-formed utterance. There are three types
of addition errors, namely: double marking, regularization, and simple addition.
a Double Marking Many addition errors are more accurately described as the
failure to delete certain items which are required in some linguis- tic construction, but not in others.
Double marking is two items marked for the same feature. Learners who have acquired the
tensed form for both auxiliary and verb often place the marker both, as in; He doesn’t knows my name , We didn’t went there.
Which the correction of the sentence above is; He doesn‘t know my name We didn’t go there.
b Regularization Regularization errors that fall under the addition category
are those in which a marker that is typically added to a linguistic item is erroneously added to exceptional items of the given class
that do not take a marker. It means that regularization error occurs when learners add
morpheme to the exceptional words, for example:
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Table 2.3 Example of Regularization errors
No. Regularization Errors Correction
1. Sheeps Sheep
2. Putted Put
3. Deers Deer
4. Hitted Hit
5. Beated Beat
c Simple Addition No particular features characterize simple additions other
than those that characterize all addition errors— the use of an item which should not appear in a well- formed utterance.
Table 2.4 Simple Addition Errors
Linguistic Item Added Example
Third person singular _s The ishes does not live in the water
Past tense irregular The train is gonna
broke it Article a
a this
Preposition in
over there 3. Misformation
Misformation errors are characterized by the use of the wrong form of the morpheme or structure. In misformation er-
rors the learner supplies something, although it is incorrect. For
example: The dog eated the chicken. There are three types of misformation errors, they are reg-
ularization errors, archi-forms, and alternating forms. The ex- planation is elaborated as follows
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a Regularization Errors Regularization errors that fall under the misformation cat-
egory are those in which a regular marker is used in place of an irregular one, as in runned for ran or gooses for geese.
b Archi-forms The selection of one member of a class of forms to repre-
sent others in the class is a common characteristic of all stages of second language acquisition. For example;
• Give me that. • Me hungry.
• That dog. • That dogs.
c Alternating Forms As the learner‘s vocabulary and grammar grow, the use of
archi-forms often gives way to the apparently fairly free alterna- tion of various members of a class with each other.
For example; • Those dog. – I seen her yesterday.
4. Misoreder
