Liguistics

....occur when learners try to say something that is beyond their current level of knowledge or language processing. Usually, because they are still processing or don't know this part of the language, learners don't understand what is wrong because they have not got feedback

• Error

• mistake

• slip

• interaction

...are the result of tiredness, worry, or other temporary emotions or circumstances. We make them because we are not concentrating on what we are saying or writing. They are not a result of incomplete language processing or a lack of knowledge.

• Errors

• Interlanguage

• Slips

Learners may use sound patterns, lexis, or grammatical structures from their own language in English.

• False friends

• First language interference

• Overgeneralization

What is interlanguage?

I have several students in my top class who still say things like is very nice; he do; I am doctor. I just don’t know what to do about it.

• Lexical developmental error

• Fossilized grammatical error

• Grammatical slip

All beginners confuse the tenses in English

• A slip

• L1 interference

• a developmental error

The learner was able to correct their own mistake

• L1 interference

• a slip

• a developmental error

He was very angry so he kept making mistakes.

• a slip

• L1 interference

• a developmental error

What is input?

What is the output?