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PERFORMANCE ERRORS AND COMPETENCE ERRORS IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING

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1982
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Competence errors reveal a learner's lack of knowledge of target language (TL) rules. Other errors may be corrected immediately and are regarded as performance errors. Some errors involve rules also within the learner's TL competence even though these errors are left uncorrected in speech, possibly because the still-unconsolidated rules require conscious monitoring which has been impeded in a stressful situation. This study proposes and tests the hypothesis that such uncorrected errors are also performance errors. Five adult Spanish-speaking learners of English were asked to perform three speech tasks under differing degrees of monitoring difficulty. They later edited a transcription of their speech and attempted to discriminate the correct form on a test. Errors that a subject edited and discriminated correctly were considered performance errors. Stabilized variability errors were inconsistently edited or discriminated, while true competence errors were not recognized by the subjects.
Title: PERFORMANCE ERRORS AND COMPETENCE ERRORS IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING.
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Name(s): MARTIN, JOSE MANUEL.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Resnick, Melvyn C., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1982
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 167 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Competence errors reveal a learner's lack of knowledge of target language (TL) rules. Other errors may be corrected immediately and are regarded as performance errors. Some errors involve rules also within the learner's TL competence even though these errors are left uncorrected in speech, possibly because the still-unconsolidated rules require conscious monitoring which has been impeded in a stressful situation. This study proposes and tests the hypothesis that such uncorrected errors are also performance errors. Five adult Spanish-speaking learners of English were asked to perform three speech tasks under differing degrees of monitoring difficulty. They later edited a transcription of their speech and attempted to discriminate the correct form on a test. Errors that a subject edited and discriminated correctly were considered performance errors. Stabilized variability errors were inconsistently edited or discriminated, while true competence errors were not recognized by the subjects.
Identifier: 14111 (digitool), FADT14111 (IID), fau:10925 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1982.
Subject(s): Speech errors
English language--Study and teaching--Spanish students
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