Professional Documents
Culture Documents
and Interlanguage
By Meng Zhang - Associate Professor of English Education and Head of the
Foreign Language Department at Zhengzhou Teachers College in
Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, China.
Abstract:
remedial teaching.
Key Words:
error
language
analysis;
interlanguage;
learner
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process,
and
should
be
strong
target
language
they
were
learning.
in
the
teaching
practice
of
pedagogical
learners
learning
progressed
until
they
are
completely
justification,
language
and,
it
provides
(Corder;
consequently,
1981).
what
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way
the
learner
has
of
testing
his
itself.
the
adequate
new
tendency,
an
Language A
Interlanguage
Target
Language
strategy.
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Nemser
coined
the
term
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speech
to
sentences
are
rules
intended
of
of
by
the
that
grammar
speaker
language
dialects;
the
idiolect
and
differences
between
are
an
Set of rules of
language A
vague,
by
the
fact
that
the
the
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surface
form
or
apparent
stage
reconstruct
them
to
provide
some
explanations.
here
is
explanation.
It
is
roughly
stages:
learners
and
overtly
divided
into
three
idiosyncratic
idiosyncratic
idiosyncratic
dialect,
and
sentences
have
covertly
to
be
target
of
language.
contextualization
is
the
process
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language
in
their
language
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Varieties
of
errors:
acceptability
and
A1
B1
appropriateness
Acceptable
Appropriate
A2
B2
Unacceptable
Inappropriate
Here
the
problems
1)
of
2)
3)
4)
According
formed
incorrect
utterance
erroneous
be
or
acceptable
but
inappropriate
to
Corder,
there
sentence
and
interpretation;
but
3)
ambiguous,
sentence
are
by
four
plausible
acceptable
that
the
is
learner.
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a. Interlanguage is changing
tongue
of
similar
formulating
does
and
is
therefore
experiences
of
capable
not
affect
interlanguage
as
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language
However,
constraints
as
modern
follow
the
cognitive
same
learning
topic
possesses
occasional performance.
language
such
artificial
learners
and
how
learning.
The
elaborate
younger
and
the
interlanguage
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of
different
mother
tongues
learning
progress
held in control.
could
be
made
when
the
and
have
highly
formal
References:
the
observable
data
from
which
Education 14:217-21
Press.
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