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Behrens, Susan J.; Chirinos, Yoshivel; Spencer, Marisa; Spradley, Sonya – NADE Digest, 2016
Utilizing the framework of educational linguistics, we investigate ways to foster greater awareness of, and facility with, academic English for educators and students across disciplines by maximizing the popularity of language-related software packages, applications and websites, those already commonly found in and out of the classroom. Our work…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Computer Software, Metalinguistics, Web Sites

Bulwa, Lillian – ADFL Bulletin, 1983
Presents four chief categories of common mistakes in French along with some of their causes and cures. (EKN)
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), French, Higher Education, Interference (Language)

Smith, Karen L. – Hispania, 1982
Analyzes the omission, overgeneralization, and misuse errors in the compositions of first- through third-year university Spanish students, with major emphasis placed on the role errors play in the acquisition of Spanish as a second language. (EKN)
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Higher Education, Language Patterns
Richards, D. R. – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1977
A discussion of error analysis understood as the differences between the way people learning a language speak and the way adult native speakers use the language. The inevitable errors can be turned to pedagogical advantage if the teacher provides appropriate feedback to help the learner modify his grammar. (AMH)
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Higher Education, Language Instruction, Language Patterns
Woods, Devon – TESL Canada Journal, 1989
Discusses complexities inherent in correcting second language students' spoken and written errors. Alternatives to current error correction methods (1) focus on the use of error correction to improve students' language form, (2) involve the real communicative consequences of inaccuracy, (3) suggest strategies for attending to form when listening…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Grammatical Acceptability
Ziahosseiny, Seid M. – 1991
It is suggested that contrastive linguistics, the systematic comparison of two languages, be considered in the preparation of instructional materials and as a choice of teaching methods and techniques for training tranlators and interpreters. The contrastive analysis hypothesis suggests that the major source of errors committed by learners of a…
Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Foreign Countries

Tyler, Andrea; And Others – World Englishes, 1988
A discourse analysis of videotaped teaching demonstrations by 18 Korean and Chinese teaching assistants reveals these non-native speakers of English lack the mastery of those cues, such as prosody and topicalization, that allow native speaker/listeners to perceive intended relationships among the ideas presented. (DJD)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)

Nyamasyo, Eunice A. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1994
A corpus-based approach is used to describe types of spelling errors, concluding that there are a variety of sources for the differences in the sound system of English and the first language of the students in the study. The teaching of spelling and the inclusion of a contrastive analysis approach in English courses are advocated. (20 references)…
Descriptors: College Students, Databases, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)

Hull, Glynda; And Others – Computers and the Humanities, 1987
Examines the use of computers for error detection in natural language texts. Focuses on a computer program designed to teach students to edit their papers for errors using pattern matching in error detection. Describes a "pedagogy for editing" and speculates on ways to improve computer detection of errors in natural language texts. (AEM)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Editing, Educational Technology
Strange, Dorothy Flanders; Kebbel, Gary W. – 1978
Most of the mechanical and content errors in the sentences written by journalism students can be attributed to four faulty patterns that can be traced to errors in the thinking process: fragmented sentence parts, personification, bureaucratic coding ("officialese"), and compressed sentences. While acceptable in spoken communication where…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Problems, Communication (Thought Transfer), Error Analysis (Language)
Carlbom, Ulla – 1973
The materials employed in this investigation were 769 translations from Swedish into English made by Swedish university students studying English. The principal objective was to study aspects of learner behavior (in treating English word order) to obtain information about the types of errors Swedish students commit in English production and…
Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Koo, Swit Ling; Koh, Lily – 1994
A study of individual variability in second-language learners' performance in specific classroom tasks is presented as evidence that instruction in language for special purposes (LSP) has an important role to play. Subjects were 17 Singapore university students in a remedial English course; all had studied English since elementary school. The…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Needs, Error Analysis (Language), Group Discussion
Valdman, Albert – 1975
Errors in second language learning are viewed as evidence of the learner's hypotheses and strategies about the new data. Error observation and analysis are important to the formulation of theories about language learning and the preparation of teaching materials. Learning a second language proceeds by a series of approximative reorganizations…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Higher Education
Miyao, Mariko – 1999
This paper describes one college-level English-as-a-Second-Language teacher's use of error analysis in an effort to understand students' problems with reading comprehension and writing. The research was undertaken in a Japanese junior college. Three studies are presented. In the first, 59 students in a general English course listed sentences they…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics