The Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis (CAH) was born before the

establishment of the idea of interlanguage, claiming that learner language was

solely created by transfer from their native language (NL). Error analysis was
created then so as to validate the predictions of the CAH by studying learners
production. Errors were considered interferences between the two languages.
However, some researchers soon found out that there were errors that did not
come from transfer. LOOK BROWN
Corder developed an alternative framework with the concept of transitional
competence, which was an intermediate stage between the NL and the TL. He
also claimed that the NL can positively affect the acquisition of the TL if both
languages have similar patterns and that errors represent the difference
between the learners transitional competence and the TL.