Significances of learners' error
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This document discusses the significance of error analysis from different perspectives. It provides guidelines for designing remedial courses based on learner errors. Analyzing learner errors gives insights to teachers about their difficulties and how to address their problems. For researchers, error analysis provides evidence of how language is learned and the strategies learners use. It also shows teachers how far along learners have progressed and what they still need to learn. Error analysis can contribute to linguistic theory by discovering new aspects of language use and verifying hypotheses within linguistic frameworks.
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Significances of learners' error
- 3. It gives a guideline for designing a remedial course. Evaluate the effectiveness of teaching materials, methods, or techniques. Learner's errors pin point their difficulties which give insight to the teacher in solving the learners’ problems. Significanc es from the pedagogical point of view:
- 4. According to Corder (1981: 10-11) To the researcher, provide evidence of how language is learnt or acquired, what strategies or procedures the learner is employing in his discovery of the language. To the teacher; how far towards the goal the learner has progressed and, consequently, what remains for him to learn. They are indispensable to the learner
- 5. The significance is of direct relation to: Psycholinguists
- 6. Noth (1977:98) considers that errors analysis can contribute to linguistic theory in two way : 1. It can lead to the discovery of new aspects of language use. 2. It can be used as a method for the verifications of hypothesis developed within the frame-work of a linguistic theory.
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