Definition of Error Error
In morphology Get upping for „getting up’
In syntax He is a dear to me friend.
In lexicon Key car for „car key’
An error may vary in magnitude. “It can include a phoneme, a
morpheme, a word, a sentence or even a paragraph. Due to this fact, errors may also be viewed as being either global or local. Global errors hinder
communication. They prevent the message from being comprehended as in the example “I like bus but my mother said so not that we must be late for
school”. In whatever context, may be difficult or impossible to interpret.
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On the other hand, “local errors do not prevent the message from being
understood because there is usually a minor violation of one segment of a sentence that allows the hearer to guess the intended meaning as follows
“If I hear from her, I would let you know”.
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The final group is “the two related dimensions of error, domain and
extent. Domain is the rank of linguistic unit from phoneme to discourse that must be taken as context in order for the error to be understood, and
extent is the rank of linguistic unit that would have to be deleted, replaced, suplaced, supplied or reordered in order to repair the sentence
”.
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“This suggestion by Lennon is parallel with Corder’s other categorization of
overtly and covertly ”.
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By acceptable, of course, the writer mean here, as elsewhere,
“a sentence such as the native speaker would accept as being superficially well-formed, and might himself utter on the appropriate
occasion. That is precisely the difficulty. A sentence must not only be acceptable, it must also be appropriate, that is, relevant and intelligible in
the specific context Overt errors are unquestionably categorization ungrammatical at the sentence level, And the covertly erroneous
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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S. P. Corder, Introducing Applied Linguistics, Meiddlesex: penguin, 1973, p. 272
sentences are those which are not appropriate in the context in which they occur covert errors are grammatically well-formed at the sentence level
but are not interpretable within the context of communication. For example “I want to know the English” wrote a perfectly acceptable
sentence which, interpreted independently of its context, expressed unexceptionable sentiments. The context of the utterance showed,
however, that his interest lay not in the people but in their language ”.
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To find out what types of error in this study, the writer uses types of error from Corder that has four types of error; omission of some
requirement element, addition of some unnecessary element, selection of an incorrect element, and mis-ordering of the element.