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Do learners of English make particular mistakes in grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary depending on their mother tongue? (While linguists distinguish between an error, made by a student who doesn’t yet know the correct rule, and a mistake, made by a student who knows the rule but momentarily forgets it, I’ll use mistake to cover both cases.) It makes intuitive sense that some (particularly lower-level) mistakes are more likely to be made by speakers of certain languages. One well-known example is that speakers of Slavic languages, such as Polish, often miss out articles (*she bought new car) while speakers of Romance languages, such as Italian, occasionally drop in too many (I love the my sister!). These kinds of mistakes reflect the nature of the students’ mother tongues, and are arguably fairly minor, but other kinds – such as the greater tendency among speakers of certain Asian languages (like Khmer or Japanese) to mix up he and she – may lead to real communication difficulties. Linguistic quirks (rather than mistakes) also vary between cultures.
In my experience from teaching French , english learners tend to overuse the word Il (he) for all genders as there are no gender in english
It depends what country they are from, as in each language there are things that may be a problem in mastering the Ebglish skills. I am Russian and teach Russians, so the main problems lay in the realm of Tenses, Modals, Phonetics and word choice
pronounciation is the biggest problem .As a former english teacher one should practice phonics they help you when pronouncing words
Showing bad relationship between the subject and the verb, that is poor subject verb agreement.I have taught them with use of a lot of examples using varied methologies like group work so that they also assist each other
Non-native speakers of English make particular mistakes in writing and speaking while they do not face severe problems in listening. They are not good at grammar, pronunciation, sentence-making, and vocabulary.
This can be overcome by suggesting them to study grammar, articles in English and try to communicate with them in English. Besides, I may also ask the students to make a list of the possible and common types of errors they already know, and direct them to share it in the classroom with their classmates so to avoid making them again
By providing them the basic and easiest way to learn English Grammer and to use it any proper way.
IF LANGUAGE ERROR BETWEEN ME AND STUDENT THEN WE PREFER EXPLAIN BY VIDEO OR DIAGRAM AND PARALLELY I CORRECT HIS/HER LANGUAGE ERROR.
Mostly they have grammatical errors, spellings, tenses and pronunciation. This can be corrected by practicing.