Sources of Errors THE REVIEW OF LITERATURE
9 rule
restriction difficulty to search
job. existing structures. The noun “difficulty” is
used instead of adjective “difficult”. Besides pronoun it is needed in this sentence to be
the subject. The correct sentence is:
√Because, nowadays it is difficult to get job. Incomplete
application of rules
The teacher is who teaching the student
This is not a sentence because the learner fails to apply the rules of constructing
relative clause completely. The correct sentence is:
√The teacher is a person who teaches the student.
False concepts
hypothesized Because of that
every people must need eat and drink.
Having poor vocabulary is the cause of this error. The learner has faulty comprehension
to differentiate noun “food” and verb “eat”. The correct sentence is:
√Because of that every people must need food and drink.
3 To cope with those grammar errors, James 1998:236 provides three
strategies, they are: a
Intervention Feedback. Informing the learners that there is an error, and leaving them to discover it and repair it themselves.
b Correction Proper. Providing treatment or information that leads to the
revision and correction of the specific instance of error the error token without aiming to prevent the same error from recurring later. In
addition to indicating that the present attempt is wrong, the teacher can specify how and where, suggest an alternative, and give a hint.
c Remediation. Providing learner with information that allows them to
revise or reject the wrong rule they were operating with when they produced the error token. The result will be to induce learners to revise
their mental representation of the rule, so that this error type does not recur.