Case Analysis

Muna Hasan
H00272711
Samya Matouk
EDU 2302
Week 14

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Specific intro
3. learner profile
4. Collection of samples
5. Case 1
6. Case 2
7. Case 3
8. Strategies for improvement
9. References

Introduction:
Errors analysis

Why

Corder
And
colleagues
(1970s)

Helps students to understand

the process of SLA.
Gives teachers and learners
some information about
strategies can used.
Helps students to avoid the
errors in the future and it
make SLA easy for them.

Steps

Types of errors

1. Collection of a sample of
learner language.
2. Identification of errors.
3. Description of errors.
4. Explanation of errors.
5. Evaluation of errors.
(Vsquez*, 2008)

Mistake
Errors

Phonological (p d)
Morphological(past
tense)

Lexical (what is the clock)

Syntactic ( words order)

Causes of errors

Interlingual
caused by first language

Intralingual
caused by the second language

Substitution
Permutation
Omission

Addition

(Speech Sound Errors, 2013)

Learners Profile

School : Afra Bint Obeid

Grade : grade 1
Age : 7-8 years old
First Language: Arabic
Second language: English
Length of time studying L2: 6 hours in the
week

Collection of samples
Day & Date : Wednesday ( 28-10-2015 )
Place: teachers room
Aim: to find and collect the errors for
student learn English like second language
The result :

speaking & writing

Frower instead of flower

Pronunciation of the letter b
lumon instead of lemon ( say
like in Arabic language )

Write from right to left

Missing letters
Write p instead of b
Write k instead of c
Write under or above the line

Writing

Case 1
(Afra)

Write from right to left

Apple

Write under the line

Cat
Speaking

She said
flower in
wrong way she
said frower

Writing

Case 2
( Hind)

Speaking

Sun
flower
Cat

She said
lemon in
wrong way she
said lumon

Writing

Case 3
(Sheikha)
Backward ( S)
ball
apple

Speaking

She said ball

in wrong way
she said
pall

Strategies for
improvement

Repeat
Use TPR because it helps student to learn SLA.
Provide extra hours for English class
More activities
Obverse the students during activity time
Correct the errors
Krashen theory: Teacher must provide a
comfortable environment for students to feel them
confident and comfortable
Skinner theory : Teacher must gives student
feedback to feel confident .
Teacher did not correct the mistake and she didnt
worry about it.

References
1. Speech Sound Errors. (2013). Retrieved November
22, 2015, from Speech language-resources:
http://www.speechlanguage-resources.com/speechsound-errors.html
2. Vsquez*, D. A. (2008, April 30). Error Analysis in a
Written Composition. Retrieved November 22, 2015,
from scielo: http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?
script=sci_arttext&pid=S165707902008000200008&lng=es&nrm=.pf&tlng=en
.