I am looking for possible ways of Inter language (learner language) research and application in my country and I have found this method useful at the first sight, however I know little about it. Any help would be appreciated. True, it is very similar and can be an alternative to Contrastive analysis, I would still wish to know more about it.
Hello Gabor. Error analysis was popularized in a seminal paper by Pit Corder in 1967, and interprets systematic errors as proof of the learning process. These errors inform SLA researchers to seek a theoretical connection between L1 & L2 that will positively influence teaching techniques (Spolsky, 1979). Error analysis procedures identify, describe, and explain learner errors in their writing and speech (Ellis & Barkhulzen, 2005). Larry Selinker coined the term interlanguage in 1972, which can be described as a psycholinguistic concepts that validates “learners’ errors by considering them not as reprehensible lapses but as positive evidence of learning, that is, of the restructuring, generalizing, analyzing, inferencing, and testing of hypotheses going on in the mind” (Spolsky, 1979, p. 251; Claire Kramsch & Anne Whiteside, 2007, p. 908).
Hope this helps.
Dear Gabor Heiszki,
To conduct research on Error Analysis, you need to go through a number of stages:
a) Collect data from the targeted learners using various data collecting tools such as composition writing, interview, etc.
b) Identify the erroneous sentences.
c) Reconstruct sentences with errors into well-formed sentences.
d) Interpret why such errors were made by the learners.
NB- use the participants to help you with the interpretation because an emic perspectivization greatly adds to the dependability of your data and prevents subjectivity.
Wish you lots of luck in your research.
Best regards,
R. Biria
Hi Gabor,
You might want to have a look at the following papers by Corder, Selinker, and Schachter. There is, of course, a wealth of others. Particularly interesting might be
Interlanguage: Forty Years Later
Editors: ZhaoHong Han and Elaine Tarone
Amsterdam: John Benjamins
2014
https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/lllt.39/main
Best
Mat
Corder, S.P. (1974). The Significance of Learners' Errors. In J. C. Richards (Ed.), Error Analysis: Perspectives on Second Language Acquisition (pp. 19-27). London: Longman.
Corder, S.P. (1974). Error Analysis. In J. P. B. Allen & P. Corder (Eds.), The Edinburgh Course in Applied Linguistics. Volume 3 - Techniques in Applied Linguistics (pp. 122-131). London: Oxford University Press.
Corder, S.P. (1975). Error Analysis, Interlanguage and Second Language Acquisition (Survey Article). Language Teaching and Linguistics. Abstracts, 8, 201-218.
Corder, S.P. (1981). Error Analysis and Interlanguage. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Schachter, J. (1974). An Error in Error Analysis. Language Learning, 27, 205-214.
Selinker, L. (1974). Interlanguage. In J. C. Richards (Ed.), Error Analysis : Perspectives on Second Language Acquisition (pp. 31-54). London: Longman.
Selinker, L. (1992). Rediscovering Interlanguage. London: Longman.
Try "implications of Interference theory and Error Analysis' by A. Raffick Foondun, MA thesis, University of Kentucky, USA. You will find interference problems from French.
Good Luck
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