Errors as Signposts to Progress in the ELT
A Guide to Development 🏫🏫 Performance errors : Mistakes which are lapses in Performance. Those errors are characteristically unsystematic (Corder, 1974: 24). Failure to utilize a known system correctly (Yaghi, 2017). Competence errors: Reflect inadequate competence. Those errors are systematic (Corder 1974: 24) (e.g. failue to activate aspects of the tenses, word order) . Interlingual Errors (or Transfer or Interference) : caused mainly by mother tongue interference, e.g. "organism" used where "body" is the appropriate term, "periphery" used where "province" is intended for the native Greek learners of English, multiple instances of prepositions use, inflections in adjectives, e.g. "pleasants activities" (Touchie, 1986). Intralingual (or Developmental Errors) : those originate in simplification, overgeneralization, hyper-correction, faulty teaching, fossilization, avoidance, inadequate learning, false concepts, hypothesized...