disparate language backgrounds tend to make similar errors in learning one target language.
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Corder stated,” error analysis confirms or disproves the predictions of the theory lying behind bilingual comparison
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. In this sense error analysis is an experimental technique for validating the theory of transfer. But error analysis goes beyond this; it aims
at telling us something about the psycholinguistic processes of language learning. We hope to able to draw certain conclusion about the strategies adopted by the learner in the
process of learning. In this sense, error analysis is part of the methodology of the psycholinguistic investigation of language learning.
6. Procedures of Errors Analysis
In the language teaching, either a native language or a second language teaching, study about the students’ errors is very important. Theo Van Els and
friends states that there are some procedures in errors analysis, namely; a.
Identification of errors b.
Description of errors c.
Explanation of errors d.
Evaluation of errors e.
Preventingcorrection of errors
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The first step in the process of analysis is identification of errors. In this step, teachers recognize the students’ errors from the task given. The second step
is the description of errors begun when identification stages have taken place. The description of the students’ errors involves classification of sort of errors made by
the students. The third step is explanation of errors that can be regarded as a linguistic
problem. This step attempts to account for how the errors can happen and why the
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Muhamad Farkhan, An Introduction to Linguistics, Jakarta: UIN Jakarta Press,2006, p. 149
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S.P.Corder, Error Analysis and inter-langauge,Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981, p. 35
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Theo Van Els and friends, Applied Linguistics and the Learning and Teaching of Foreign Languages, London: A Division of Hodder Stoughton, 1983, p. 47.
errors occur. The fourth step is the evaluation of errors in which the teachers will give the task to the students.
Finally, the last step is the process of analysis is correction of errors where the teachers check the result from the task done by the students. Then, they correct
the errors that the students made. Example:
Table 2.1 The Examples of the Procedures of Errors Analysis
