Jeremy Harmer in his book The Practice of English Languag...

#Questão 485109 - Língua Inglesa, Interpretação de Texto, FEC, 2003, Prefeitura de Niterói - RJ, Professor

Jeremy Harmer in his book The Practice of English Language Teaching says:
"Developmental errors: for a long time now researchers in child language development have been aware of the phenomenon of 'over-generalisation'. This is best described as a situation where a child who starts by saying Daddy went, They came, etc. perfectly correctly suddenly starts saying *Daddy goed and *They comed. (...) Foreign language students make the same kind of 'developmental' errors as well". (p. 100). We can infer that:

A) such errors as "she is more nicer than him" are part of a natural acquisition process among foreign learners;

mistakes are subconsciously learnt and it is very difficult for a teacher to correct them;

when responding to errors, teachers should be seen as telling students off because they are wrong;

when second language learners make errors, they are demonstrating their difficulty in acquiring that language;

adults acquire a second language more easily than children because they are aware of grammar rules.

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