Error analysis:

Name: Aisha Ahmed Yahya (H00272762)

Name of teacher: Samia Matouk
Course code: EDU 2302
Date of presentation: 22 November 2015

Content:

Error analysis.
The importance of errors.
My experience with defending the errors.
The students profiles.
Students errors evidence and justification.
Strategies for improvement.
References.

Error Analyzes:

The way to document the errors that are heard. (Error

Analysis)
The steps

How

Collect the data

To Collect the samples in the same time and start to

compare.

Identify the errors

Is it mistake or Error?

Describe the
errors

Is it:
Phonological error
Morphological error
Lexical error
Syntactic error

Explain the errors

Is it interlengual which caused by the first language?

Or
Is it intralengual which cause it by the second
language.

Evaluate the
errors

Is it Global or local error?

How many time does it repeat?
How I will correct the error?
(Touchie.Y) (Saville-Troike M, 2006)

Analyzing the errors help:

Error analysis help:

The teachers
The students.
The researches.

(Karra, 2006)

My experience with
defending the errors

Before analyzing the

samples:

I went to Alandalos school.

I started to:
select the samples from grade five.
Focus on the their:
Abilities on their second language.
Characters.
Their performance.

My Experience with collecting

the data.

While I am collecting the

errors:

I select three girls depend on their

ability in English which are:
Marwa
Ghaya
Mariam.
I spend with each girl 1 hour to extract
her main errors and analyze it.

The similarities:

They 10 years old.

They study in Alandalous school from
they was in grade one.
They take English about 1 hour.
They can read, write, talk and listen to
the sentences in English.
They are in 8th stage for writing
Transitional phrases.

- Differences
- Students errors types.
- The justification about
their errors.

Marwa
- Marwa work on her self hardly.
- She always ask her teacher about her
work and how she can improve herself.
- She is fluent in English.

Speaking error:
She said: Shes smile
The type of error is:
Morphological error.
I think the possible reason for the error:
False of concept.
Inadequate language.

Writing errors:

I see the boy and Gigrl and I see baik

and dog cite, tedy some boy play and
some Girl.
The types of errors in this sentence
are:
Syntactic error.
Spelling error.

The possible reason for the

writing errors are:

Over generation.
Caused by first language.
False concept hypothesized.

Ghaya

Ghaya is shy and quite student.

She like to work individually.
She can describe things in details.

Speaking errors:

She said: He drive the bike.

The types of error in this sentence is:
Lexical
Syntactic
The possible reason for this error are:
Interlingual (Translation).
Inadequate language.
Simplyfaction.

Writing errors:

The sentence:
I see her is short the her is kir is pluk

The type of errors in this sentence are:

Phonology.
Syntactic.
No space between the words.

The possible reasons of this

errors are:

Simplify the sentence.

Hypercorrection.

Mariam

Her ability in English is lower than

Marwa and Ghaya
She can produce sentences but not as
Marwa and Gaya sentences.

Speaking errors:

She said: The girl it is short hair

The types of errors in this sentence
are:
Syntactic.
The possible reasons for these errors
are:
Over generation.
False concept.

Evidence sample

The Types of the errors in this sentence are:

Phonological
Syntactic
The possible causes of these errors:
Interlingual.
Intralengual:
Over generation.
False concept hypothesized.

Strategies for improvement

Avoid Hard punishment, Over drilling

and teaching.
Correct the Global errors.
Using ZPD.
Provide a positive environment.
Know the students feeling.

(Touchie.Y),(Maicusi)

References:

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http://www.tesolclass.com/applying-sla-theories/error-analysis/

Karra, M. (2006, 3 29). Second Language Acquisition: Learners' Errors

and Error Correction in Language Teaching. Retrieved 11 12, 2015, from
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Maicusi, T. (n.d.). The error in the second Language Acquisition. Granda:

Universidad de Malaga.

Overview on Error Analysis. (n.d.). Retrieved 11 17, 2015, from

http://www.carla.umn.edu/learnerlanguage/error_analysis.html

Saville-Troike, M. (2006).Introducing second language acquisition. (pp.

39-40). New york: Cambridge University Press.

Touchie.Y, H. (n.d.). Second Language Learning Errors Their Types,