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Error Analysis And Second Language Acquisition Summary

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Reflection on Khansir’s “Error Analysis and Second Language Acquisition”
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In the essay “Error Analysis and Second Language Acquisition”, the author Ali Akbar Khansir talks about in detail the three most influential error theories in second language acquisition: Contrastive Analysis, Error Analysis and the Interlanguage theory. To begin with, Khansir gives a brief introduction to the development of the three error theories, which serves as a guide to the following parts.
Then comes Contrastive Analysis. The Contrastive Analysis holds that the differences between mother language and target language cause interference which brings about learners’ errors. Besides, different visions of CA hypothesis is also touched upon. The strong version claims that learners’ difficulties can be predicted by CA and can be dealt with while the weak version claims that CA can only explain learners’ difficulties. Another version states that differences of patterns may increase the learners’ difficulties. Furthermore, criticisms of CA is showed for it ignores the learners’ internal factors.
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Different linguists contribute some claims to the concept and characteristics of the Interlanguage and it is a language system which is exclusive to the learners themselves and different from their first language system and second language system. Four different characteristics of the Inerlanguage are concluded. Another relevant term is “fossilization” which refers to the tendency of many learners to stop developing their interlangage grammar towards the target language. Selinker identifies five fossilization processes: Language Transfer, Transfer of Training, Strategies of Second Language Learning, Strategies of Second Language Communication and Overgeneralization of the Target Language Linguistic Materials. Nevertheless, several important criticisms about interlanguage are also

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