Error Analysis

Error analysis is an activity to identify, classify and interpret or describe the errors made by someone in speaking or in writing. It is carried out to obtain information on common difficulties faced by someone in speaking or in writing English sentences.

(Brown.1980), Richards(1985), Crystal (1987)

Mistake and Error

According to Norrish:Error is a systematic deviation, when a learner has not learnt something and consistently gets it wrong.

According to Norrish:Mistake is an

inconsistent deviation that is sometimes the learner ‘gets it right’

but sometimes wrong

A mistake is made by a learner because he does not apply the rule that he actually knows, in other words, a mistake is a non systematic deviation from the norms of the language.

Sources of Errors

1. Interlingual transfer

It is the negative influence of the mother tongue of learner.

Intralingual transfer:

It is the negative transfer of items within the target language.

• Context of learning

• Interference

• Overgeneralization

• Performance error

• Carelessness

• Translation

Methodology

• Application• Forwarded it for approval• Different departments• Checked assignments• Analyzed• Categorized• Presented in the form of charts

Analysis of results

• The results show that students in these assignments have committed eight common errors.

• These errors are:(1) Tense (2) Word order (3) Singular/plural form (4) Subject-verb agreement(5) Punctuation (6) Spellings (7) Capitalization(8) Articles.

Errors occurred in the assignments of the Department of Psychology

tense article

Errors occurred in the assignments of the Department of Sociology

Errors occurred in the assignments of the Department of Economics

Errors occurred in the assignments of the Department of Management Sciences

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Conclusion

• Required in developing or increasing the techniques • Teacher can concentrate on the materials in which most

learners made error• Evaluate• Group activities• Peer correction• Self correction• Learning steps

• Thanks