ERROR ANALYSES OF ADULT LANGUAGE LEARNING
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...
Intralingual Interference
The second factor termed intralingual interference refers to items produced by the learner which reflect not the structure of the mother tongue, but generalizations based on partial exposure to the target language. In an analysis of English errors produced by speakers of a multitude of unrelated languages representing several language families, expert noted subcategories of...
