Mistakes And Error Essay

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CHAPTER TWO REVIEW OF LITERATURE 2.0 Mistakes and Errors It is significant to describe the differences between mistakes and errors, which are “technically two very different phenomena” (H. D. Brown, 2007). Mistakes refer to random performance slips affected by excitement or exhaustion. Mistakes can be self-corrected. Unlike mistakes, errors refer to deviations that learners made regularly because of the second language conventions that have not yet been mastered. Learners are not able to self-correct an error. These differences had drawn the researchers’ attention to errors in competence which then led to a more concentrated framework being produced. According to Yau (2014), mistakes are slips of mind and can be corrected on the spot for most of the time while errors are the same mistakes that were continuously made. Yau’s (2014) study also concluded that learners’ errors actually correspond to their own assumptions on how a language works. This could be explained by Corder (1967) (as cited in Firas Ali Suleiman Zawahreh, 2012). He affirmed that the errors made were strategies that learners used …show more content…

Firas Ali Suleiman Zawahreh (2012) indicated that one of those is Error Analysis as it is commonly being employed nowadays to investigate and analyze errors produced by learners. Yau (2014) further states that from the errors, learners’ difficulties in the learning process can be recognized. This seems to imply that Error Analysis is likely to find out the areas which require reinforcement in teaching after the errors were analyzed in a systematic way. Jayasundara and Premarathna (2011) in their study on fifty five first year undergraduates of Uva Wellassa University, for example, identified the most frequent errors in the undergraduates’ writing and speaking. Grammar was found to be the greatest category where undergraduates commit errors in both written composition and oral

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