CELTA INPUT

Error Correction 2:
written errors
CELTA INPUT
Error Correction 2:
written errors
SOME CAUSES OF ERRORS

 L1 Interference (also called ‘negative transfer)

 L2 Interference (e.g. overgeneralisation, as in ‘I goed to work today’)

 The process of learning itself, e.g.

productive vs. receptive error – some errors are caused by the students hearing wrongly.
Students often have ‘relapses’ when previously conquered rules once again become areas of
confusion as new rules are introduced into the system (also called ‘restructuring’)

 The process of teaching itself, e.g.

controlled practice activities can put pressure on students so that they make, say, errors of
word or sentence stress because they are concentrating on making a structure

 Distraction, carelessness, etc

 Bad teaching, e.g. teaching the wrong version of a rule