Contrastive Analysis Interlanguage, and Error Analysis

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Contrastive Analysis Interlanguage, and Error
Analysis

• Session Notes
• Dr. E. Vázquez-Montilla

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Contrastive Analysis Interlanguage, and Error
Analysis

• Two issues to consider ---
• What is contrastive analysis?
• Explain the hierarchy of difficulty by which a
  teacher or linguist could make a prediction of
  the relative difficulty of a given aspect of the
  second language

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Contrastive Analysis (CA)

• Predicts and describes the patterns that will
  cause difficulty in learning, and those that will
  not cause difficulty, by comparing systematically
  the language and the culture to be learned with
  the native language and culture of the students.
• Stresses interfering effects of the first
  language on second language learning.

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CA Procedures

• Description - explicitly describes the two
  languages in question.
• Selection - selection of forms (rules, structures
  ) for contrast.
• Contrast - mapping of one linguistic system onto
  the other and a specification of the relationship
  of one system with the other.
• Prediction based on the analysis.

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Interlanguage

• Refers to the separateness of a second language
  learners system that has a structurally
  intermediate status between the native and target
  language.
• Stresses the successive approximation to the
  target language.

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Error Analysis

• Learners errors are significant in that they
  provide evidence of how language is learned and
  acquired.
• Looks for strategies or procedures the learner is
  employing in the discovery of language.
• Errors can be observed, analyzed, and classified
  to reveal something of the system operating
  within the learner.
• Examines errors attributable to all possible
  sources, not just to the result form negative
  transfer of the native language.