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The Role of Developmental Errors in Assessing Language Competence.

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Ghadessy, Mohsen – ELT Journal, 1985

Discusses a test given to a group of elementary school students of English as a second language. The purpose of the test was to measure developmental errors, that is, errors which reflect a learner's competence at a given stage, and to illustrate some of the general characteristics of language acquisition. (SED)

Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Interlanguage

Implications of Error Analysis for Second/Foreign Language Acquisition.

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Ghadessy, Mohsen – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1980

Discusses the results of an error analysis of 100 English compositions written by university students in Iran. It is suggested that mistakes are not primarily due to interference from the native language, but to developmental errors, similar to errors made in first language acquisition. (Author/AMH)

Descriptors: Adults, Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns