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Horner, Bruce – Rhetoric Review, 1992
Asserts that distinction between "error" and its social implications is false and that research and teaching based on that distinction is flawed. Considers how errors might be viewed as social in their production and correction, examines two ways in which this is elided in the literature, and explores how a social view of error might inform…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Discourse Analysis, Editing, Error Patterns

Rifkin, Benjamin; Roberts, Felicia D. – Language Learning, 1995
Examines error gravity research design and its theoretical assumptions. Results indicate that investigators have only skimmed the surface of the process of error evaluation, which is shaped by extralinguistic factors. The article concludes that researchers should reconceptualize error gravity research and reassess earlier studies to confirm or…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Discourse Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns