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    There is a distinction between errors and mistakes in language learning. Mistakes are failures to use known systems correctly and can be self-corrected, while errors result from a lack of knowledge and cannot be self-corrected. Too much correction of students' language can harm fluency, so teachers should distinguish between mistakes that reflect recently learned material and errors reflecting unknown material, correcting only the former. The critical period hypothesis proposes there is an ideal period in childhood and adolescence for acquiring full native competence in a language, and learning a new language becomes increasingly difficult with age due to external and internal factors affecting grammar and pronunciation mastery.

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    There is a distinction between errors and mistakes in language learning. Mistakes are failures to use known systems correctly and can be self-corrected, while errors result from a lack of knowledge and cannot be self-corrected. Too much correction of students' language can harm fluency, so teachers should distinguish between mistakes that reflect recently learned material and errors reflecting unknown material, correcting only the former. The critical period hypothesis proposes there is an ideal period in childhood and adolescence for acquiring full native competence in a language, and learning a new language becomes increasingly difficult with age due to external and internal factors affecting grammar and pronunciation mastery.

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    Error and Mistake

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    There is a distinction between errors and mistakes in language learning. Mistakes are failures to use known systems correctly and can be self-corrected, while errors result from a lack of knowledge and cannot be self-corrected. Too much correction of students' language can harm fluency, so teachers should distinguish between mistakes that reflect recently learned material and errors reflecting unknown material, correcting only the former. The critical period hypothesis proposes there is an ideal period in childhood and adolescence for acquiring full native competence in a language, and learning a new language becomes increasingly difficult with age due to external and internal factors affecting grammar and pronunciation mastery.

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    DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ERROR AND MISTAKES

    A distinction is always made between errors and mistakes, where error is defined as
    resulting from a learner's lack of proper grammatical knowledge, whilst mistake as a failure
    to utilize a known system correctly.
    Mistakes are frequently made by both native speakers and second language learners.
    However, native speakers are generally able to correct themselves quickly. Such mistakes
    include slips of the tongue and random ungrammatical formations. On the other hand, errors
    are systematic in that they occur repeatedly and are not recognizable by the learner.
    Mistakes can be self-corrected with or without being pointed out to the speaker but errors
    cannot be self-corrected.

    Is it effective to correct every error/mistake? why?


    Appropriate correction and feedback is a staple of the ESL EFL classroom, just as are drills
    or speaking activities. But too much correction produces a class of students whose fluency
    suffers. They become overly concerned with grammatically correct responses. They produce
    lengthy pauses before answering even the most simple of questions, focusing too much on
    word order, verb tense, etc. a distinction should be made between a student who uses
    previously learned material incorrectly and a student who incorrectly uses material which
    hasn't yet been studied. One is a mistake and in need of correction. The other is an error
    and can be ignored.

    The critical period hypothesis


    The critical period hypothesis says that there is a period of growth in which full native
    competence is possible when acquiring a language. This period is from early childhood to
    adolescence. The critical period hypothesis has implications for teachers and learning
    programmes, but it is not universally accepted. Acquisition theories say that adults do not
    acquire languages as well as children because of external and internal factors, not because
    of a lack of ability. As you get older, you will have a hard time with new languages, especially
    their grammatical systems, or the set of rules that all languages have, such as the order of
    nouns and verbs in a sentence. You might also have a hard time mastering an accent that
    sounds close to a native speaker.
    This means that once we hit a certain age, our ability to learn our own language is greatly
    diminished. Although the original hypothesis was developed to understand how babies learn
    their first language, researchers have also extended the concept to study the best times for
    people to learn a new language.

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