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The Insufficiency of Error Analysis
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Hammarberg, B. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1974
The position here is that error analysis is inadequate, particularly from the language-teaching point of view. Non-errors must be considered in specifying the learner's current command of the language, its limits, and his learning tasks. A cyclic procedure of elicitation and analysis, to secure evidence of errors and non-errors, is outlined.…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Interference (Language)
Problems of Iranians in Learning English Reported Speech
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Yarmohammadi, Lotfollah – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1973
Revised version of a paper presented at the Seminar on English Teaching in Iran, Tehran, April 1971. (DD)
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Contact Analysis of English and Persian Measure Words for Pedagogical Purposes.
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Yarmohammadi, Lotfollah – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1980
The syntactic distribution and behavior of five English and Persian "measure" nouns and their adjectives are compared. From this, errors attributable to transference and those due to inconsistencies in English are enumerated. A unified analytic model of Persian errors in learning English suggests useful teaching strategies. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)