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Name : Dina Rika Yandini Error Analysis (A1)

Mardhatillah
Salabiah

Significance of error

1. By error analysis, teachers will get an overall knowledge about the students errors.
Foreign language learning is a process of hypothesis and trial and error occurrence is
inevitable. So the teacher should learn to tolerate some errors, especially some local
errors.
2. Errors can tell the teacher how far towards the goal the learner has progressed and
consequently, what remains for him or her to learn. They also tell the teacher where to lay
stress when revising (feedback).
3. The teacher should not only be able to describe the errors linguistically but should also
understand the psychological reasons for their occurrence. He should therefore be able to
diagnose and cure them.
4. Errors are indispensable to the learners themselves, because we can regard the making of
errors as a device the learner uses in order to learn. Human learning involves making
mistakes (Brown 1980:164).
5. The study of errors should lead to a better understanding of the processes by which
languages are learned and should thus in turn lead to the development of improved
methods, materials, syllabi and so on.
6. Some errors need to be handled; otherwise, they will become fossilized.

Errors are no longer seen as signs of failure that have to be prevented and eradicated, but are
rather considered as signs of developmental processes involved in the learning of language and
Corder ( 1967) adds to this:

Errors are significant in three different ways.

First, to the teacher, in that they tell him, if he undertakes a systematic analysis, how far towards
the goal the learner has progressed and, consequently, what remains for him to learn.

Second, they provide to the researcher evidence of how language is learned or acquired, what
strategies or procedures the learner is employing in his discovery of the language.

Thirdly, they are indispensable to the learner himself, because we can regard the making of
errors as a device the learner uses in order to learn. It is a way the learner has for testing his
hypotheses about the nature of the language he is learning.

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