Publisher's Synopsis
Language error as one of applied linguistics subjects has been discussed among language teachers, syllabus designers, linguistics more than fifty years. They have recognized that it can be used as one of the learning strategies in helping to language teachers and learners in acquiring their target language. The text Language Error and Applied Linguistics covers those issues of language error and language teaching and language use in order to acquire the target language. First chapter discuses applied linguistics and the relation between linguistics and language teaching. Second chapter focuses on Error Analysis and Contrastive Analysis. Third chapter examines types of written errors by EFL and ESL learners. Fourth chapter examines types of syntactic errors by EFL and ESL learners at under graduate level in English Language. The purpose of fifth chapter is to discuss error correction in English language. Sixth chapter of this book investigates a study of essay writing errors of EFL learners. The main aim of seventh chapter is to investigate discourse and text as aspects of language communication and discuss what are discourse and text and how they take place. Eighth chapter compares and examines product and process approaches to the teaching of writing. Ninth chapter of this text discuss Place of Grammar in English Language Teaching. Tenth chapter indicates trends of language methods in second language acquisition.
