Author: Majidova, Gulrukh Kamaridinovna

Annotation: While learning foreign languages, correcting errors has already been considered to be one of the curtail aspect of teaching processes. But in fact, many teachers do not know much about error analysis and some related theories. They often have so negative perception toward errors made by their students that they could not tolerate any errors and they are willing to correct them as soon as they could encounter any. Consequently, although it seems for them to have been working hard enough and spend much time and energy working on correcting errors, their efforts in correcting errors is not effective and the students do not believe they have benefited a lot. On the other hand, the students often feel discouraged, as they have thought that there is a great gap between themselves and their teachers in dealing with errors and understanding of correcting errors. As it is necessary to have an understanding of dealing with errors in the article the development of the theory related to the concept would be briefly reviewed.

Keywords: error correction, Contrastive analysis, interlanguage, intralanguage, structural behavioristic school, transformational generative grammarians, Error analysis.