Errors in Language Learning and Use: Exploring Error Analysis

General editor's preface Author's preface Abbreviations 1. Definition and Delimitation Human error Successive paradigms Interlanguage and the veto on comparison Learners and native speakers The heyday of Error Analysis Mounting criticism of Error Analysis Data collection for Error Analysis 2. The Scope of Error Analysis Good English for the English Good English for the L2 learner The native speaker and the power dimension The Incompleteness hypothesis 3. Defining 'Error' Ignorance Measures of deviance Other Dimensions of Error: Error and Mistake Error: Mistake and Acquisition: Learning - An Equation? Lapsology 4. The Description of Errors Error detection Describing errors Error Classification Error Taxonomies Counting errors Profiling and Error Analysis Computerized Corpora of Errors: ICLE - COALA 5. Levels of Error Medium errors Text errors Lexical errors Classifying Lexical errors Grammar errors Discourse errors 6. Diagnosong Error Description and diagnosis Ignorance and avoidance Mother tongue influence: Interlingual errors Target language causes: Intralingual errors Learning-strategy based errors Communication strategy based errors Induced errors Compound and ambiguous errors 7. Error Gravity and Error Evaluation Evaluation Criteria for error gravity 8. Error Correction What is correction? Whether to correct: pros and cons How to do error correction: some options and principles Noticing error 9. A Case Study Elicitation and registration Error identification Categorizing the errors Status: error or mistake? Diagnosis Bibliography Index