Lesson 13: Errors and Interlanguage: Mistakes and Errors Aim

LESSON 13: Errors and Interlanguage: Mistakes and Errors
Aim:

to introduce students with the term Error and Mistake and their reasons

Objectives:

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  to help students to understand the reasons of mistakes in their learning process
  
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  to discuss the types of mistakes and errors
  
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  to raise students’ awareness of learner differences by questionnaire
  

Influence from the learner’s first language (L1) on the second language is called an interference or transfer.

A developmental error is made by learners when they are unconsciously working out and organizing language, and this process is not yet complete.

Fossilised errors are errors which a learner does not stop making and which last for a long time, even for ever, in his/her foreign language use.

Errors in which learners wrongly apply a rule for one item of the language to another item, are known as overgeneralization.

The learners’ own version of the second language which they speak as they learn is known as an interlanguage.