COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LINGUISTIC ERROR ANALYSIS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
YAÖ 3014 LINGUISTIC ERROR ANALYSIS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

German Language Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

INSTRUCTOR ZEYNEP ATEŞ BOZKURT

Offered to

German Language Teacher Education

Course Objective

To enable students to conduct a linguistic analysis of errors considering typical German learners difficulties; to enable students to deal in a sensitive and reflected manner with mistakes and errors in classroom situations

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The students can identiy and mark mistakes and errors using different systems.
2   The students can analyze and classify mistakes and errors using different criteria and different systems.
3   The students can judge the importance of errors and mistakes.
4   The students can correct mistakes and errors orally and in a written way according to different systems and techniques and reflect their own system of corrections applied.
5   The students can reckognize possible sources of errors through their knowledge of German (as L2) and Turkish (as L1).
6   The students can reckognize possible sources or errors through their knowledge of L1- and L2 language acquisition processes.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Error analysis, linguistic error analysis, error identification, error classification, error marking, language acquisition processes (L1, L2), German under a typological perspective, error correction in the classroom
2 Identification and marking of errors and mistakes
3 Target hypothesis
4 Classification of errors
5 Linguistic error analysis
6 Sources of errors: Language acquisition processes I
7 Sources of errors: Language acquisition processes II
8 Repetion
9 Midterm exam
10 German from a typological perspective: Learning difficulties of German
11 German from a typological perspective: Specific learning difficulties of Turkish learners
12 Error correction in the classroom: Writing
13 Error correction in the classroom: Speaking
14 Insights from research: The Error-Annotated Corpus of Learner Errors (FALKO)
15 Final examination

Recomended or Required Reading

- Kleppin, Karin (2010): Fehleranalyse und Fehlerkorrektur. In: Deutsch als Zweit- und Fremdsprache, Bd. 1, 1060-1072. Hg. von Hans-Jürgen Krumm, Christian Fandrych, Britta Hufeisen und Claudia Riemer. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter.
- Kleppin, Karin (1998): Fehler und Fehlerkorrektur. Berlin: Langenscheidt.
- Corder, Pit (1967): The Significance of Learners Errors. In: International Review of Applied Linguistics 5(2): 161-170.
Lüdeling, Anke; Walter, Maik (2010): Korpuslinguistik für Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Als pdf-download unter: http://www.linguistik.huberlin.de/institut/professuren/korpuslinguistik/ mitarbeiter-innen/anke/anke_veroeffentlichungen

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, plenary work, individual work, pair work, group work

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FINS FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 +FINS * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

German

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

zeynep.ates@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Application 0
Final examination 13 2 26
Quiz Preparation 0
Paper Preparation 0
Research Presentation 0
Others (Please indicate) 0
Pre Class Self Study 13 2 26
Midterm Preparation 1 7 7
Final Preparation 1 10 10
Quizzes 0
Final Exam 1 2 2
Midterm Exam 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 73

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.133131551311
LO.233131551311
LO.353131551311
LO.453131551555
LO.553151251551
LO.653151251551

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