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APPLIED LINGUISTICS for BA Students in English FEEDBACK AND ERROR CORRECTION Teachers’ attitude to errors Interlanguage

المؤلف:  BÖLCSÉSZ KONZORCIUM

المصدر:  APPLIED LINGUISTICS for BA Students in English

الجزء والصفحة:  P123-C1

2026-10-19

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APPLIED LINGUISTICS for BA Students in English

FEEDBACK AND ERROR CORRECTION

Teachers’ attitude to errors

Interlanguage

Errors were regarded as failures for a long time. Now it is accepted that errors are important because they are the indication of the learners’ developing competence, which Selinker (1972) called ‘interlanguage’. Interlanguage refers to the process the learner goes through from the initial stage when he knows very little about the language getting to a final stage when he possesses almost complete fluency. It shows a transitional stage of the learner’s development towards L2 competence. It is a system that the learners construct at any stage in their development. Students’ errors are a very useful way of giving evidence of what they have learnt and haven’t learnt. So instead of regarding errors negatively, as a sign of failure, teachers can see them positively as an indication of what they still need to teach. If teachers try to prevent students from making errors, they can never find out what the learners do not know. Teachers need to correct some errors to help students learn the correct forms of the language. But they don’t have to correct students all the time.