Abstract

“Errare humanum est”, a well known and widespread Latin proverb which states that: to err is human, and that people make mistakes all the time. However, what counts is that people must learn from mistakes. On these grounds Steve Jobs stated: “Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.” Similarly, in learning new language, learners make mistakes, thus it is important to accept them, learn from them, discover the reason why they make them, improve and move on. The significance of studying errors is described by Corder as: “There have always been two justifications proposed for the study of learners' errors: the pedagogical justification, namely that a good understanding of the nature of error is necessary before a systematic means of eradicating them could be found, and the theoretical justification, which claims that a study of learners' errors is part of the systematic study of the learners' language which is itself necessary to an understanding of the process of second language acquisition” (Corder, 1982; 1). Thus the importance and the aim of this paper is analyzing errors in the process of second language acquisition and the way we teachers can benefit from mistakes to help students improve themselves while giving the proper feedback.

Highlights

  • While I was practicing driving with my husband, he kept correcting me on every step I made

  • Learners make mistake all the time, but when teachers correct them during the whole process of speaking, the learners get more confused, less self confident, insecure and prone to making more mistakes

  • Iliria International Review – 2015/1 © Felix–Verlag, Holzkirchen, Germany and Iliria College, Pristina, Kosovo. Based on this approach it was believed that errors in second language acquisition can be predicted and remedied, which is proved to be incorrect later supported by many empirical researches conducted in that area

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Introduction

While I was practicing driving with my husband, he kept correcting me on every step I made. Learners make mistake all the time, but when teachers correct them during the whole process of speaking, the learners get more confused, less self confident, insecure and prone to making more mistakes. It is important for the driving instructor and the teacher to find the way how to signal when the learner is making a mistake, why does the mistake occur, what to do to correct that mistake in order not to repeat the same mistake again, and when they have that useful feedback their output will definitely be better. Throughout this paper the approaches towards errors, the types of errors, the ways of error correction will be analyzed and treated

Theoretical approaches towards Error Analysis
Typology of errors
How to correct and give the proper feedback
Data from the closed set of questions On the question
Findings
Conclusion
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