Abstract
Error Analysis can be considered as a type of linguistic analysis that focuses on the errors learners make. It consists of a comparison between the errors made in the target language and that target language itself. Many scholars in the field of Error Analysis have emphasized the significance of second language.Corder (1967:161) ,for example, in one of his articles , says that ''they are significant in three different ways .He starts with the teacher in that they show how far towards the goal the learner has progressed. Second , they provide to the researcher evidence of how a language is acquired , what strategies the learners is employing in his learning of a language .Thirdly , they are indisputable to the learner himself because we can regard the making of errors as a device the learner uses in order to learn''. The present paper mostly illustrates fundamental background studies done in the field of Error Analysis. There is a hope that the present work helps EFL teachers and educators to become familiar with the most frequent errors made by EFL learners leading them to make more objective decisions about how to go about adapting a appropriate teaching strategies to help EFL student learn better
Highlights
1.1 Error AnalysisError analysis is a method used to document the systematic errors that appear in learner language
Do they provide feedback for the language learner, through learner errors we can obtain important insights into the processes governing second language acquisition, and our knowledge gained from this may be applied to improving language instruction in the classroom
Muriel (2006:39) emphasized the idea that accounting for why an error was made is the most important step in any attempt to understand the process of second language acquisition and to improve the way a second language is learned.Learners errors can be classified by different ways: 1. One of these is to depend on the type of linguistic item that is involved in the error
Summary
Error analysis is a method used to document the systematic errors that appear in learner language. Human learning is fundamentally a process that involves the making of mistakes They form an important aspect of learning any skill or acquiring information. Errors of all kinds are an important ingredient in the language learning process Do they provide feedback for the language learner, through learner errors we can obtain important insights into the processes governing second language acquisition, and our knowledge gained from this may be applied to improving language instruction in the classroom. It is generally agreed among second language researchers that learners are active participants in their own language learning process. Analyzing errors is , to find ''what the learner knows and does not know" and to " enable the teacher to supply him not just with the information that his hypothesis is wrong, and importantly , with the right sort of information or data for him to form a more a adequate concept of a rule in the target language " Corder (1974:170)
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