Error analysis

Håkan Ringbom

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Error analysis (EA) is the systematic investigation of the types and causes of errors made by speakers and writers in their non-native languages (L2). Interest in EA as a systematic branch of study arose in the late 1960s, in close connection with contrastive analysis (CA), which had developed a little earlier.

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