Lesson 13: Errors and Interlanguage: Mistakes and Errors Aim

Handout 3, Activity 3
What is  an interference or transfer?  

What is a developmental error?. 

What is a Fossilised errors? 

What is overgeneralization? 

What is  an interlanguage? 

 

Handout 4, Activity 4

1. Influence from the learner’s first language (L1) on the second language is called…

a) an interference or transfer.

b) a developmental error.

c) overgeneralization.

2. What type of mistake is a mistake made by learners when they are unconsciously working out and organizing language, and this process is not yet complete.
a) an interlanguage.

b) a developmental error.

c) overgeneralization.
3.In which line is given the correct definition of the term “Fossilized errors”?
a) The learners’ own version of the second language which they speak as they learn is called Fossilized errors.

b) an error made by learners when they are unconsciously working out and organizing language is called Fossilized errors.

c) Errors which a learner does not stop making and which last for a long time, even for ever, in his/her foreign language use.

4. What is an interlanguage ?

a) An error in which learners wrongly apply a rule for one item of the language to another item.

b) The learners’ own version of the second language which they speak as they learn.

c) Influence from the learner’s first language (L1) on the second language.
5. What is an overgeneralization ?
a) Influence from the learner’s first language (L1) on the second language

b) Error which a learner does not stop making and which last for a long time, even for ever, in his/her foreign language use

c) An error in which learners wrongly apply a rule for one item of the language to another item.
6. What is an error?
a) Errors happen when learners try to say something that is beyond their current level of language processing .usually learners can not correct errors themselves because they do not understand what is wrong.

b) Errors are the result of tiredness, worry or other temporary emotions or circumstances.

c) Errors that can be corrected by learners once they realize they have made them.

7. What is a slip?

a) Slips are the learners’ own version of the second language which they speak as they learn.

b) ) Slips are the result of tiredness, worry or other temporary emotions or circumstances.

c) ) Slip is mistake which a learner does not stop making and which last for a long time, even for ever, in his/her foreign language use
8. Find out the mistake of accuracy from these lines.
a) Close your mouth! (Said to a groupmate)

b) She like his coat. (Talking about present habit)

c) My girlfriend was at the hospital yesterday.
9. Find out the mistake of appropriacy from these lines.

a) She wear her swimsuit. (Talking about present action)

b) Shut up! (Said to a teacher)

c) Do you know where is the post office?

10. Why do second language learners make errors?

a) Because of influence from the learner’s first language (L1) on the second language.

b) Because they are unconsciously working out and organizing language, bur the process is not yet complete.

c) Both are correct.