Error Analysis and Its Implications for the English Classroom: A Case Study of an Advanced English Learner
Keywords:
Error Analysis, Interlanguage, English Language Teaching
Abstract
This study aims to examine English spoken language uttered by Indonesian EFL learners by employing error and interlanguage analysis. It principally focuses on highlighting the value of error and interlanguage analysis on the development of Indonesian English language teaching classroom. The data were in the form of language transcription taken from a structured sociolinguistics interview with an advanced English learner. The results indicate that errors, either on phonological, grammatical, lexical, or pragmatic competence, are principally caused by L1 or interlingual transfer, despite few occurrences of developmental errors. Regarding the implication of this study for language classroom, it offers several suggestions for improving English language classroom including an introduction of varieties of chunk languages and adjacency pairs used across cultures to students.
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Connor, U. (1996). Contrastive Rhetoric: Crosscultural Aspects of Second Language Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press.
Corder, S. P. (1981). Error Analysis and Interlanguage. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Culpeper, J., Haugh, M., & Kádár, D. Z. (2017). Introduction. In J. Culpeper, M. Haugh, & D. Z. Kádár (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness (pp. 1–8). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Davies, C. E., & Tyler, A. E. (2005). Discourse strategies in the context of crosscultural institutional talk: Uncovering interlanguage pragmatics in the university classroom. In K. Bardovi-Harlig & B. S. Hartford (Eds.), Interlanguage Pragmatics: Exploring Institutional Talk (pp. 133–156). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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Ellis, R. (1985b). Understanding Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ellis, R. (2003). Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ellis, R. (2008). The Study of Second Language Acquisition (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ellis, R., & Barkhuizen, G. (2005). Analysing Learner Language. Oxford.
Fauziati, E. (2017). Native and target language influence on the students’ interlanguage production: A case of indonesian EFL compositions. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 7(1), 54–63. https://doi.org/10.17509/ijal.v7i1.6858
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Polat, B., & Kim, Y. (2014). Dynamics of Complexity and Accuracy: A Longitudinal Case Study of Advanced Untutored Development. Applied Linguistics, 35(2), 184–207. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amt013
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Solano, P. A. C., Torres, P. F. G., Cueva, C. A. O., Beltran, A. L. Q., Cuesta, L. M. C., Jaramillo, L. M. S., … Cordova, M. O. A. (2014). Spanish interference in EFL writing skills: A Case of Ecuadorian Senior High Schools. English Language Teaching, 7(7), 40–48. https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v7n7p40
Swan, M., & Smith, B. (2001). Learner English: A Teacher’s Guide to Interference and Other Problems (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tarone, E., & Swierzbin, B. (2009). Exploring Leaner Language. Oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press.
Thomas, J. (1995). Meaning in interaction : an introduction to pragmatics. London; New York: Longman.
Thornburry, S. (2005). Beyond the Sentence: Introducing Discourse Analysis. Oxford: Macmillan Education.
Watcharapunyawong, S., & Usaha, S. (2013). Thai efl students’ writing errors in different text types: The interference of the first language. English Language Teaching, 6(1), 67–78. https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v6n1p67
Williams, J. (2005). Writing center interaction: Institutional discourse and the role of peer tutors. In K. Bardovi-Harlig & B. S. Hartford (Eds.), Interlanguage Pragmatics: Exploring Institutional Talk (pp. 133–156). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Young, J. Y. (2001). Malay/Indonesian speakers. In M. Swan & B. Smith (Eds.), Learner English: A teacher’s guide to interference and other problems (pp. 279–295). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Yule, G. (1996). Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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2019-12-23
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Islamiyah, M., & Fajri, M. S. A. (2019). Error Analysis and Its Implications for the English Classroom: A Case Study of an Advanced English Learner. Indonesian EFL Journal: Journal of ELT, Linguistics, and Literature, 5(2), 1-13. Retrieved from https://ejournal.kopertais4.or.id/mataraman/index.php/efi/article/view/3736
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