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Learner Error & Teaching Secondary Languages

The treatment and reduction of learner error has long been considered to be the primary task of the language teacher. This was seen to be readily accomplished by the judicious provision of a form of negative feedback (error correction) and the systematic reinforcement of appropriate learner responses and other teacher-desired elements of learnersÆ production. However, both classroom teachers and researchers alike have realized that what was once thought to be a rather simple and natural aspect of the learning process is indeed a complex affair that has, over the last several decades, undergone marked changes due not only to the evolvement of various methodologies and approaches used by teachers in providing language instruction, but also to the way these methodologies and approaches perceive the notion of error and its place in second language instruction. The purpose of this paper is to provide an historical overview of the established research dealing with the evolving attitudes held by educators and researchers regarding error correction and the manner in which this subject is viewed by the most commonly accepted methods and approaches employed in second language instruction.

The problem of how to teach secondary languages is nearly as old as human society, for as soon as people divided themselves into groups those groups began to speak differently from each other - only then to find that they wanted to communicate. But while the need to teach and learn a language other than oneÆs mother tongue is a problem for the ages, the methods by which secondary languages have been taught have changed dramatically, sometimes seeming to change fashions as often as hem lengths go up or down, at least in recent decades. During the course of the current century, a wide variety of methods has been used. These different methods incorporate different models of learning, sometimes reflecting the realities of the classroom and sometimes being dire...

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