Identification of the Problem
language. ‖
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It actually helps the teacher to know how far towards the goal the learner has progressed and what remains for him to learn of a second language.
By knowing some errors which are made by students, the teacher will know whether his teaching is success or not.
In addition, Erdogen also said that ―Errors are the use of linguistic item
in a way that a fluent or native speaker of the language regards it as showing faulty or incomplete learning.
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It occurs because the learner doesn’t know what is correct, and thus it cannot be self-corrected. Error can show what the
learner has learnt whether they understand material that teacher gives or not. Meanwhile, Dulay also stated that
―errors are the flawed side of learner speech or writing. They are those parts of conversation or composition that deviate
from some selected norm of mature language performance. ‖
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In this case, they learn English as foreign language, and it is natural phenomenon if they commit error. Based on behaviorist thinking, language is a
new set of habit formation, so they still bring L1 In learning new language. Besides that, there is a negative transfer that causes error. Learners bring or
apply language rule in L1 to L2 meanwhile they have different language rule. It becomes problem in their language learning process because L1 still influences
them in using some rules in L2. Actually, Errors can be useful for the teacher and syllabus designer.
According to Corder that ― the next step would be to determine whether the students-generated sequence, it is called built-
in syllabus.‖
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Errors tell the teacher how far towards the goal the learner has progressed and what remains
for him to learn. Errors also are significant data as they show what items are important to be included or which items needs to be recycled in the syllabus.
From the explanations above, errors cannot be avoided in language learning because it is natural when students learn a new language because
learning is process where they make errors first to improve their ability. Although errors are bad, errors can bring some benefits for some aspects. For
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Ibid, p. 6.
4
Vacide Erdogan, Contribution of Error Analysis to Foreign Language Teaching, Journal of the faculty of Education 1st New York:2005, pp. 261
—270.
5
Heidi Dulay, et all., Language two, New York:Oxford University Press,1982, p. 138.
6
Corder, op.cit, p. 9.