Errors in Language Learning and Use: Exploring Error Analysis (Applied Linguistics and Language Study) - Softcover

James, Carl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0582257638 ISBN 13: 9780582257634

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

Errors in Language Learning and Use is an up-to-date introduction and guide to the study of errors in language, and is also a critical survey of previous work. Error Analysis occupies a central position within Applied Linguistics, and seeks to clarify questions such as `Does correctness matter?', `Is it more important to speak fluently and write imaginatively or to communicate one's message?'

Carl James provides a scholarly and well-illustrated theoretical and historical background to the field of Error Analysis. The reader is led from definitions of error and related concepts, to categorization of types of linguistic deviance, discussion of error gravities, the utility of teacher correction and towards writing learner profiles. Throughout, the text is guided by considerable practical experience in language education in a range of classroom contexts worldwide.

About this title

About the Author

The book is written by Carl James, Senior Lecturer in the Linguistics Department at the University of Wales, Bangor, who is author of Contrastive Analysis and co-editor of Language Awareness in the Classroom, also published in this series. The book is suitable for students of Applied Linguistics, Educational Linguistics, teachers of English as a Foreign Language and teachers of Modern Languages.

From the Back Cover

Back Cover
Applied Linguistics and Language Study Series
General Editor- Christopher N. Candlin,
Professor of Linguistics and Executive Director, National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Since it was first established in the 1970s the Applied Linguistics and Language Study series has become a major force in the study of practical problems in human communication and language education. Drawing extensively on empirical research and theoretical work in linguistics, sociology, psychology and education, the series explores key issues in language acquisition and language use.
Errors in Language Learning and Use is an up-to-date introduction and guide to the study of errors in language, and is also a critical survey of previous work. Error Analysis occupies a central position within Applied Linguistics, and seeks to clarify questions such as `Does correctness matter?', `Is it more important to speak fluently and write imaginatively or to communicate one's message?'
This book provides a scholarly and well-illustrated theoretical and historical background to the field of Error Analysis. A range of relevant questions is addressed such as whether native speakers make errors, and whether `good English' for the native speaker is also good for the foreign learner. The reader is led from definitions of error and related concepts, to categorization of types of linguistic deviance, discussion of error gravities, the utility of teacher correction and towards writing learner profiles. Throughout, the book is guided by considerable practical experience in language education in a range of classroom contexts worldwide.
The book is written by Carl James, Senior Lecturer in the Linguistics Department at the University of Wales, Bangor, who is author of Contrastive Analysis and co-editor of Language Awareness in the Classroom, also published in this series. The book is suitable for students of Applied Linguistics, Educational Linguistics, teachers of English as a Foreign Language and teachers of Modern Languages.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0582257638
• ISBN 13: 9780582257634
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320