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Problems in Studying the Communicative Effect of Learner's Errors1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Stig Johansson
Stig Johansson
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Lund University
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The growing interest in error analysis shows a concern with errors as evidence of learner language systems. A study of errors becomes a means of revealing what the learner has yet to know. However, the analyst takes a lenient view of errors as such. What has to be remedied is the system, not the symptoms. Nevertheless, the errors produced may be more or less serious. As the analysis will normally reveal a host of deficiencies in the learner system, it may be difficult to know where to start and what to emphasize in applying the results. This is where error evaluation fits in, i.e. the study of error gravity (see Fig. 1.).

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Research Article
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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , Fall 1978 , pp. 41 - 52
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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