In language studies,critical theory has been explored through Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Historically, CDA is a development from “critical linguistics” originally popularized by scholars in the UK and Australia as an attempt to” [react] against the dominant formal (often’asocial’ or ‘uncritical’) paradigms of the 1960s and 1970s”. In a nutsheell, CDA is “a type of [...]
What has come to be known as Error Analysis has to do with the investigation of the language of second language learners. It takes the point of view that the language of such a learner, or perhaps certain groupings of learners, is a special sort of dialect. This is based on two considerations: firstly, any [...]
This section deals with the methodology of error analyses, particularly as it is applied to the analysis of the adult learner’s syntax in a second language. Corder presents a model based on a distinction between an idiosyncratic dialect (the learner’s personal, unstable, developing grammar) and a social dialect (the target language which is the dialect [...]