LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 7 July 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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To Correct or Not to Correct -
Usual and Unusual Errors among Telugu Speakers of English

S. Jayasrinivasa Rao, Ph.D.

Abstract

It is inevitable that learners make mistakes in the process of second language learning. However, what is questioned by English teachers is why students go on making the same mistakes even when such mistakes have been repeatedly pointed out to them. Not all mistakes are the same: some are too deeply ingrained to be corrected, others get corrected with ease. Teachers have come to realize that the mistakes learners make in the process of constructing a new system of language need to be analyzed carefully.

In this respect, this article aims to classify errors committed by Telugu speakers of English so that these help us diagnose the learning problems at any stage of development. The errors can be categorized as omission, addition, selection and ordering errors in the domain of phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Some errors are largely global and hinder communication while others are local which do not prevent the message from being understood because of a minimal violation in a segment of a sentence.

In this article, I also try to categorize errors according to their psycholinguistic sources of error, whether they stem from a first language transfer (interlingual) or from an inconsistent rule in the target language (intralingual). A close analysis of errors will thus help us (i) identify strategies learners use in learning English, (ii) identify sources of learner errors, and (iii) think of appropriate ways and activities to aid learning.

Teaching Engineering Graduates: My Experience

I have been teaching in Aurora’s Scientific and Technological Institute since August 2004. Before joining the teaching stream, I worked as an editor for close to two and a half years and before that I was at CIEFL (now known as The EFL University), Hyderabad, completing my various research degrees. It was after I joined this college that I came into contact with the ‘real world,’ so to say. English is one of the subjects that is ‘taught’ in the first year B.Tech. course of the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad. It is a ‘subject’ that is grudgingly ‘learnt’ by the students; a subject that is to be somehow tackled and passed.

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S. Jayasrinivasa Rao, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Department of Humanities and Sciences
Aurora's Scientific and Technological Institute
Aushapur, Ghatkesar
Hyderabad 501301
Andhra Pradesh
India
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