LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 24:5 May 2024
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Deciphering Inflectional Complexities:
Analyzing Error Patterns in ESL Learners

Dr. Sudhanshu Shekhar and Dr Sandeep Biswas

In second language learning, learners often commit mistakes in various forms and for different reasons. To comprehend this, Error Analysis studies, which is an allied part of applied linguistics that supplanted Contrastive Analysis due to the work of Corder (1967), come into play in language teaching. In the process of second or foreign language learning, Error Analysis underlines and analyzes the errors committed by learners. According to the different processes leading to the occurrence of errors, various classifications have been developed, resulting in the distinction between intralingual and interlingual errors. Intralingual errors are further categorized into overgeneralizations, simplifications, developmental errors, communication-based errors, induced errors, errors of avoidance, errors of overproduction, etc. This discourse was ultimately negated by N. Chomsky, a linguist who proposed a radically different perspective. Defying B.F. Skinner, he asserted that human language acquisition cannot be explained by simply starting off with a "tabula rasa" state of mind.

S.P. Corder pioneered the importance of errors in the language learning process as a study in ELT/applied linguistics. He underlined the paradigm shift in linguistics from a behavioristic view of language to a more rationalistic view and asserted that a noticeable effect in language teaching would be shifting the emphasis from teaching to the study of learning.

Methodology: This study is a cross-sectional analysis of 16 students from Class V of Kendriya Vidyalaya, J.N.U., New Delhi. The sample is evenly split between genders, including 8 girls and 8 boys, all aged between 8 and 9 years. In this research, gender is the only variable being considered. All participants belong to middle-class families, ensuring a degree of socioeconomic consistency within the sample group.

To collect the necessary data for our research, we utilized the questionnaire method. Each student was given a structured questionnaire designed to gather specific information relevant to the study's objectives. The students were engaged in this process to ensure they understood and accurately completed the questionnaires. This approach was chosen for its efficiency in obtaining quantitative data that could be systematically analyzed to draw meaningful conclusions regarding the influence of gender within this demographic.

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Dr. Sudhanshu Shekhar
Assistant Professor (Linguistics), Department of English Studies
School of Languages, Central University of Jharkhand
Cheri Manatu Village, Ranchi 835 222 Jharkhand
sudhanshu.shekhar@cuj.ac.in

Dr Sandeep Biswas
Assistant Professor, DFEL: Chinese
School of Languages, Central University of Jharkhand
Cheri Manatu Village, Ranchi 835 222 Jharkhand
xindifujnu@gmail.com
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