Model
Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
Competence errors reveal a learner's lack of knowledge of target
language (TL) rules. Other errors may be corrected immediately and are
regarded as performance errors. Some errors involve rules also within
the learner's TL competence even though these errors are left uncorrected
in speech, possibly because the still-unconsolidated rules
require conscious monitoring which has been impeded in a stressful
situation.
This study proposes and tests the hypothesis that such uncorrected
errors are also performance errors. Five adult Spanish-speaking
learners of English were asked to perform three speech tasks under differing
degrees of monitoring difficulty. They later edited a transcription
of their speech and attempted to discriminate the correct form
on a test. Errors that a subject edited and discriminated correctly
were considered performance errors. Stabilized variability errors were
inconsistently edited or discriminated, while true competence errors
were not recognized by the subjects.
language (TL) rules. Other errors may be corrected immediately and are
regarded as performance errors. Some errors involve rules also within
the learner's TL competence even though these errors are left uncorrected
in speech, possibly because the still-unconsolidated rules
require conscious monitoring which has been impeded in a stressful
situation.
This study proposes and tests the hypothesis that such uncorrected
errors are also performance errors. Five adult Spanish-speaking
learners of English were asked to perform three speech tasks under differing
degrees of monitoring difficulty. They later edited a transcription
of their speech and attempted to discriminate the correct form
on a test. Errors that a subject edited and discriminated correctly
were considered performance errors. Stabilized variability errors were
inconsistently edited or discriminated, while true competence errors
were not recognized by the subjects.
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