UNIVERSITY OF PAMPLONA- FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAM- COURSE: Applied Linguistics to Foreign

Language Learning.
ERROR ANALYSIS OF A WRITTEN CORPUS. This text was collected from a written production made by a Spanish-speaking
student (Level A2). Do an error analysis for the following corpus. Help yourself from the grid below.
Writing (20)
15. Describe a place to eat.

Write about a restaurant you know. Include the following information:

• restaurant name
• address
• type of food / typical dishes
• days/times open
• description of food/atmosphere
Be creative and descriptive! Use what you have learned during this second term.
Write 80–100 words.

Text N° 1- Directions: Find the mistakes in the following text and correct, analyze the errors in the proposed grid.

1.the name of my favorite restaurant is the colonial in Sogamoso, Boyaca. your address is cra 11 in the center. i like it

2.because is a fast food and seafood restaurant , my favorite dish is sea food and salchipapa with cheese, it has a friendly

3.atmosphere, and always keep the place clean . it is open to 10 am till 9 pm . the speciality is fried fish , it's cooked with

4.onions and tomatoes , and it has cheese on it , it's delicious. People of all ages go there , sometimes you meet friends, it's

5.got a fun. in my birthday i go there with my famity and some friends for eat my favorite dish.

ERROR ANALYSIS GRID

Line Identification of error Correction of error Mistake Type of error Source of error Remediation strategies
-Error
1 the name of my favorite The name of my M Orthographic Capita letter rule Replacement Activities
restaurant is the colonial in favorite is “El Proper name rule
Sogamoso, Boyaca. Colonial” in Intralingual/interlingual
Sogamoso, Boyacá
1 . your address is cra 11 in the its address is 11th E Morphosyntactic Wrong use of possessive Re-employment activities
center av downtown Lexis-semantic adjectives Replacement activities
Given direction form Conceptualization activities
(rule)
Mother tongue
interference
(intralingual/interlingual)

i like it I like it E Orthographic Personal pronouns rule Replacement

(“I” always in capital
letter)
Intralingual
2 because is a fast food and because it is a fast M Morphosyntactic Structure rule (s+v+c) Re-employment activities
seafood restaurant food and sea food Semantic Ignorance of the word Replacement of the word
restaurant (sea food-type of food,
seafood-dish)
Intralingual
2 my favorite dish is sea food my favorite dish is M Semantic Ignorance of the word Replacement of the word
seafood (sea food-type of food,
seafood-dish)
intralingual
3 and always keep the place and they always E Morphosyntactic Structure rule (s+v+c) Re-employment activities
clean keep the place Interlingual
clean
3 the place clean. it is open to . It is open from M Orthographic Capita letter rule Replacement activities
10 am till 9 pm . 10 am to 9 pm . morphosyntactic (punctuation) Re-employment activities
 Wrong use of
prepositions
intralingual
3 the speciality is fried fish , the specialty is M Orthographic Letter addition Replacement
fried fish , Mother tongue
interference
Interlingual
4 it's cooked with 4.onions and it's prepared with E Semantic Mother tongue Conceptualization activities
tomatoes 4.onions and interference
tomatoes Wrong verb
Interlingual
4 sometimes you meet friends sometimes you E Semantic Mother tongue Conceptualization activities
make friends interference
Wrong verb
Interlingual
5 it's got a fun. in my birthday it's fun. In my M Pragmatic Communication Conceptualization activities
birthday interference Replacement
Capital letter rule
(punctuation)
interlingual
5 i go there with my famity I go there with my E Orthographic Personal pronouns rule Replacement
and some friends for eat my family and some Morphosyntactic (“I” always in capital
favorite dish. friends to eat my letter) Intralingual
favorite dish. Wrong letter
Wrong use of
prepositions
intralingual