‘HE IS A CRIMINAL IN SERIES’: A FORAY INTO ERRORS BY ROMANIAN LEARNERS OF ENGLISH Cover Image

‘HE IS A CRIMINAL IN SERIES’: A FORAY INTO ERRORS BY ROMANIAN LEARNERS OF ENGLISH
‘HE IS A CRIMINAL IN SERIES’: A FORAY INTO ERRORS BY ROMANIAN LEARNERS OF ENGLISH

Author(s): Loredana Pungă, Hortensia Pârlog
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Politehnica
Keywords: aspect errors, cross-linguistic transfer, error analysis, function words errors, L1-L2 transfer, lexical-semantic errors, syntactic errors

Summary/Abstract: The paper contains a qualitative and quantitative analysis of errors resulting from the interference between the learners’ mother tongue (Romanian) and English as a foreign language. The errors have been identified in a sample corpus of argumentative essays (cca 15,000 words) written on general topics, by the Romanian corpus of learner English assembled by Mădălina Chitez. They are classified, the type of L1-L2 transfer involved in their production is explained and their interpretation is complemented by quantitative considerations. The aim of the research is clearly pedagogical.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 161-177
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English