Date of Award
1982
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Resnick, Melvyn C.
Abstract
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.
Extent
167 p.
Recommended Citation
MARTIN, JOSE MANUEL, "PERFORMANCE ERRORS AND COMPETENCE ERRORS IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING" (1982). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1980 - 1989. 192.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_3/192
Identifier
FADT14111
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1982.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters