Error analysis

Error Analysis and
Interlanguage
S. P. Corder

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Acknowledgements are made to the following publishers for permission to reproduce the papers in this collection:
Julius Groos Verlag, for 'The Significance of Learners ' Errors ', published in the International Review of Applied Linguistics,
Volume
V No. 4, 1967, for 'Idiosyncratic Dialects and Error Analysis ', published in Svartvik, J. (ed.) (1973)
Errata: Papers in Error
Analysis and in the International Review of Applied Linguistics,
Volume IX No. 2, 1971, and for 'The Elicitation of
Intel-language ', published in a special issue of
IRAL on the occasion of Bertol
Malmberg 's sixtieth birthday.
Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research, for 'Describing the Language Learner 's

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