LING 3Q91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Emor, Sled, Psycholinguistics
15 Jan 2016
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Ea didn"t set out to predict errors but to discover and describe different kinds of errors. Ea wanted to understand better how learners process second lang data. Learners language is viewed as a system in its own right, in this approach. Not just an inaccurate version of the tl to be stigmatized. Learner lang is a system in a state of constant flux not fixed. Adjustments are made to accommodate new language input (stay with system a until we receive contrary info) Existing hypotheses about the target language are tested and reformulated. Language learning in this view is a process of gradual approximation to the system used by native speakers of the target language. These successive gradual approximations are known as a learner"s interlanguage. The language the learner produces differs from both the l1 and the target language. Every learner"s interlanguage is likely to be different.
