English Literature

SHUAIB ASGHAR DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH GOVT. RAZVIA ISLAMIA COLLEGE HAROONABAD, PAKISTAN What is Error Analysis? �There is an Italian proverb �We can learn through our errors��making mistakes can indeed be regarded as an essential part of learning.� (Norrish 1983). Brown (1987) says that language learning, like any other human learning is a process that involves the making mistakes. In order to understand the process of L2 learning, the mistakes a person made in the process of constructing a new system of language should be analyzed carefully. Here we can give the definition of EA as a process based on analysis of learners� errors. Corder (1987) explains the significance of learners� errors in three different ways. 1.     The first to the teacher in that they tell him, if he undertakes a systematic analysis, how far towards the goal the learner has progressed, and consequently what remains for him to learn. 2.     Second, they provide to the researcher evidenc...

SHUAIB ASGHAR DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH GOVT. RAZVIA ISLAMIA COLLEGE HAROONABAD, PAKISTAN Code-mixing refers to the mixing of two languages at the word level. If we consider our situation we can find that domains related to education, media and profession are those where people use to mix the code. Teachers while talking in classroom often blends English words with those of Urdu. Media men and specially hosts at TV and radio etc mix the code frequently. They use a blend of Urdu with English and English with Urdu in talk shows and live programs. You can often find such kind of examples of code-mixing in TV talk shows. Aik aur program� Hamarey studio�C hhota sa break�B ari bari companiyan, Depend karta hai �Protest huye hain �K oi bara initiative� Exports hit ho rahi hain LANGUAGE HYBRIDIZATION Language hybridization is a resultant process of frequent code-mixing . Sometimes, even the grammar or structure of one language is applied to the vocabulary of another. So when two or more languag...