difference between a mistake and an error（課堂PPT）

1、1What is the difference between a mistake and an error?Mistake: It refers to a performance error that is either a random guess or a “slip,” in that it is a failure to utilize a known system correctly. All people make mistakes, in both native and second language situations.It is not the result of a d

2、eficiency in competence but the result of some sort of breakdown or imperfection in the process of producing speech.e.g. Bake my bike. (Take my bike)2Error:It is a noticeable deviation from the adult grammar of a native speaker, reflecting the interlanguage competence of the learner.It reveals a por

3、tion of a learners competence in the target language.e.g. Great changes have take place in our life.3How can a foreign language teacher tell the difference between the two in the speech of learners? If an English learner says “John cans sing,” but on the other occasions says “John can sing.” Further

4、 examination of the learners speech reveals such utterances as : “John wills go,” “John mays come.”4Why is it important to distinguish between mistakes and errors? Error analysis became distinguished from contrastive and analysis by its examination of errors attributable to all possible sources, not

5、 just those which result from negative transfer of the native language. Error analysis easily superseded contrastive analysis, as we discovered that only some of the errors are attributable to the mother tongue that learners do not actually make all the errors that contrastive analysis predicted they should, and learners from disparate l