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Date Posted: 11:03:21 10/08/05 Sat
Author: Erica Soares Brito Sousa Machado
Subject: Re: Citing Resources: Error Analysis as a part of the Learning Process
In reply to: Paulo Boa Sorte 's message, "Citing Resources: Error Analysis as a part of the Learning Process" on 17:50:41 10/05/05 Wed

Dear Paulo,

I liked your citations a lot. I believe you wrote everything according to the rules. I made some comments about your paragraph, only some details that you can take a look at. Maybe they’ll help you improve your writing.

Cheers,

Érica

Teachers must follow some steps in order to achieve a successful error analysis. From the students’ written productions, he (YOU SAID TEACHERS, SO IT WOULD BE BETTER TO USE THEY) may explain why the errors occur. But (THERE IS NO CONTRAST HERE, IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO USE BUT) it is essential to identify them, which is not an easy task. A comparison is made between what the students produce and what is considered to be “correct” in the target language. Once the identification is done, the description and classification of the errors into grammatical categories (past tense error or subject-verb agreement, for instance) must follow. Thereafter, ELLIS (1985) stated the importance of “ identifying (THERE IS AN UNNECESSARY SPACE BETWEEN THE QUOTATION MARK AND identifying) general ways in which the learners’ utterances differ from the reconstructed target-language utterances, such as omission, misinformation and misordering.” (p. 18). Despite the fact that the students’ productions reflect their stage of development; it is necessary to explain the reason why they occur. (AREN’T YOU BEING REPETITIVE? YOU SAID THAT BEFORE. TRY TO REFORMULATE THIS SENTENCE) Some of them are universal, that is, (ISN’T that is INFORMAL?) made by learners of different L1, but other ones are specific, either related to the learner’s mother tongue or to his individual choices. ELISS (1985) also listed the errors that the students may commit “omission - in the use of articles or demonstratives - overgeneralization - the use -ed for regular and irregular verbs in the past and language transfer - an attempt to make use of L1 knowledge.” (p. 19)

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  • Re: Citing Resources(Final Version): Error Analysis as a part of the Learning Process -- Paulo Boa Sorte, 11:21:04 10/08/05 Sat
  • Re: Citing Resources(Final Version): Error Analysis as a part of the Learning Process -- Ricardo, 08:32:43 10/10/05 Mon
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