Interlingual Transfer Sources of Error
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strategies of communication and assimilation and teacher-induced errors. as teacher of English as a foreign language, we should improve the way we
teach to reduce the errors which are always made by the learners. Further, it is necessary to state that although errors are bad things in
learning English as a foreign language, error analysis is advantageous for both learners and teachers. For learners, error analysis is needed to show
them in what aspect in grammar which is difficult for them, whereas for teachers, it is required to evaluated themselves weather they are successful
or not in teaching. Thus, error analysis should be neglected in foreign language teaching.
Richards stated that error analysis is the study of errors made by the second and foreign language learners.
Another concept of error analysis is given by Brown .
He defined error analysis as the process to observe, analyze, and classify the deviations of
the rules of the second language and then to reveal the system operated by learner.
It seems this concept is the same as the one proposed by Crystal error analysis is a technique for identifying, classifying and systemically
interpreting the unacceptable forms produced by someone learning a foreign language, using any of the principles and procedures provided by
linguistics. In learning process of foreign language, students use English as a
language in their daily activity of communication. Most of students are often difficult to understand or comprehend and always do many errors in
using English. According to Brown, “The fact that the learners do make error and that
these error can be observed, analyzed and classified to reveal something of the system operating within the learner, led to a surge of the study of
learners’ errors, called error analysis.”
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Douglas Brown, Principles of Language Learning and Teaching. New York: Addision Wesley Longman Inc, 2000. p.218
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It means that error analysis made by the students and that these errors can be observed, analyzed and classified to reveal the system operating
within the learner in order to students are easy of the study of learners’ errors.
Furthermore, based on Corders’ statement, “Error analysis is its function in guiding the remedial action we must take to correct an
unsatisfactory state of affairs for learner or teacher.”
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It can be seen that the function of error analysis is for investigating in the specification and
planning of remedial action to correct an unsatisfactory state of affairs for learner or teacher.
James explains , “Error analysis is the process of determining the incidence, nature, causes and consequences of unsuccessful language”
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it means that error analysis is a process of discovering the fact of something
happens and causes of unsuccessful language. Based on the definition above, the writer could see that error analysis
is a process of the remedial action which includes to observed, analyze and classify students’ error from the incidence, nature, causes of unsuccessful
language.