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Causes Of Errors (Simplification (Learners often choose simple forms and
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Causes Of Errors
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Avoidance
Some syntactic structures are difficult to produce by some learners. Consequently, these learners avoid these structures and use instead simpler structures.
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Faulty teaching
Sometimes it happens that learners' errors are teacher-induced ones, i.e., caused by the teacher, teach- ing materials, or the order of presentation.
This factor is closely related to hypercorrection above. Also, it is interest- ing to note that some teachers are even influenced by their pupils' errors in the course of long teaching.
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Inadequate learning
This is mainly caused by ignorance of rule restrictions or underdifferentiation and incomplete learning
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Hypercorrection
The zealous efforts of teachers in correcting their students' errors induce the students to make errors in otherwise correct forms.
For example, the teacher's insistence that Arab ESL learners produce the phoneme IpI correctly prompts them to always produce IpI where the phoneme Ibl is required.
Fossilization
Some errors, specially errors in pronuncia- tion, persist for long periods and become quite difficult to get rid of.
Examples of fossilized errors in Arab ESL learn- ers are the lack of distinction between IpI and Ibl in English and the insertion of the resumptive pronoun in English relative clauses produced by these learners.
Overgeneralization
This is the use of one form or con- struction in one context and extending its application to other contexts where it should not apply.
Examples of overgeneralization include the use of corned and goed as the past tense forms of corne and go and the omission of the third person singular s under the heavy pressure of all other endless forms as in he go.