Language [Part 1]
Only human kind is blessed with ‘language capacity’ ( the Language Acquisition Device or LAD), an essentially unique quality. At least, this is what Noam Avram Chomsky, one of the most leading theoretical linguist in history, has proclaimed. Chomsky’s opinion on the human’s language is as quoted below. When we study language, we are approaching...
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LEARNER’S ERRORS (Part 2)
In the field of methodology there have been two schools of thought in respect of learners’ errors. Firstly the school which maintains that if we were to achieve a perfect teaching method the errors would never be committed in the first place, and therefore the occurence of errors is merely a sign of the present...
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LEARNER’S ERRORS (Part 1)
When one studies the standard works on the teaching of modern language it comes as a surprise to find how cursorily the authors deal with the question of learners’ errors and their correction. It almost seems as if they are dismissed as a matter of no particular importance, as possible annoying, distracting, but inevitable by-products...
