An Analysis to English Learners Errors at Vocational Colleges And How to Correct

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摘 要：College students make errors in their English learning even though they have learned this language for more than six years. how do students make errors and what kind of errors do they make? It is very important to know about them in order that teachers can take appropriate methods according to different kind of errors. Thus can we stimulate students to learn the English language better and apply it correctly in daily life.

关键词：English learners；errors；analysis；correct

中图分类号：G712 文献标识码：A 文章编号：1002-7661（2012）14-268-02

Although college students have learned english for at least six years, we often find that they make errors when writing or communicating with others. As an English language teacher, how do we response when meeting the students’ errors? Do we correct them at once ? Or do we just ignore them and let them be? For some teachers, they think it right to correct the errors soon after students make them because students will be used to the errors and form a habit of saying that, which will affect their language learning and using later. For others, they think this is a process that language learners will experience. They can be aware of their errors little by little and correct them by themselves after they have learned more and spoken more. In my opinion, teachers should deal with errors differently.

How do students make errors? There is a proverb“To err is human, to forgive is divine.”It is common for language learners to make errors, even mistakes, when learning a foreign language. It is all too natural. Errors consists of the process of the language learning. In 1950s, linguists developed Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis. According to this, learners errors are the results of differences between the learner’s first language(L1) and the target language or second language(L2). The main source of errors in L2 is due to transfer of L1 habits, thus errors can be predicted by a contrastive analysis of the L1 and L2.

According to this theory, there are four kinds of errors. First, transfer error. It is because of the negative transfer from their native language. Errors are the result of using something they have learned in the past. Students simply takes what they have learned from the past. Thus the learners will have grammatical or structural errors. This kind of error is especially obvious at the biginning stage of language learning. Second, analogical error. This is formed just because learners make faulty inferences about the rules of the new language. The third is teaching induced error. For this kind of error, it is formed because there are many similar phrases or words and they should be chosen according to the context and their usage.