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Language Acquisition and the Errors We Make : A comparison between beginners and intermediate learners

<p>The aim of the study was to find out whether or not there is a difference in the type and number of errors made by L2 intermediate learners and beginners of English. Texts were gathered from two age groups, 9-10 year olds and 16-18 year olds, 16 texts from the younger beginner level learners and 9 from the older intermediate learners. From the errors made in the texts five categories were formed (six for the beginners): Grammatical errors, word missing errors, morpheme errors, word order errors and spelling errors that is unique to the beginners. It was found that intermediate learners make fewer errors overall but that they make the same types of errors as the beginners when they do make an error.</p>

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:miun-9179
Date January 2009
CreatorsFeltsen, Patrik
PublisherMid Sweden University, Department of Humanities
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, text

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