Research Question Objectives of the Research
system correctly. All people make mistakes, in both native and second language situation. While error is a noticeable deviation from the adult grammar of a native
speaker, reflects the competence of the learner and an error that reveals of a portion of the learner’s competence in the target language.
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Corder made a distinction between a mistake and error. Whereas a mistake is a random performance slip caused by fatigue, excitement, etc., and therefore
can be readily self-corrected, an error is systematic deviation made by learners who have not yet mastered the rules of the L2. A learner cannot self-correct an
error because it is a product reflective of his or her current stage of L2 development, or underlying competence.
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Fisiak distinguished between error and mistake as follows: “mistakes are deviations due to performance factors such as memory limitations e.g., mistakes
in the sequence of tenses and agreement in long sentences, spelling, pronunciations, fatigue, emotional strain, etc. errors, on the other hand, are system
a given stage of learning.”
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According to the understanding of mistakes and error above, it can be distinguished the difference between mistakes and errors. Mistakes are
unsystematic of production which the students could correct their own mistakes if their attention in focus and they realize what mistakes that they had done. In the
opposite, students do not understand that they had done and consistently do the same error. They find it so hard to correct the errors they made. Furthermore, a
mistake can be self-corrected by the students but an error cannot be self corrected by the students.
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Brown, op.cit, 2007, p. 257.
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Diane Larsen-Freeman and Michael H. Long, An Introduction to Second language Acquisition Research, London: Longman, 1991, p. 59.
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Jack Fisiak, Constractive Linguistics and the Language Teacher, New Jersey: Prentice hall,Inc, 1987, p. 205.