Post on 05-Dec-2015
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The Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis (CAH) was born before the
establishment of the idea of interlanguage, claiming that learner
language was solely created by transfer from their native language
(NL). Error analysis was created then so as to validate the
predictions of the CAH by studying learners’ production. Errors were
considered “interferences” between the two languages. However,
some researchers soon found out that there were errors that did not
come from transfer. LOOK BROWN
Corder developed an alternative framework with the concept of
transitional competence, which was an intermediate stage
between the NL and the TL. He also claimed that the NL can
positively affect the acquisition of the TL if both languages have
similar patterns and that errors represent the difference between the
learner’s transitional competence and the TL.