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In a diverse multilingual classroom, a teacher observes that students produce two distinct types of deviations from target language norms: utterances rooted in the systematic application of their native language's syntactic structures onto English (e.g., placing adjectives after nouns), and rule-based regularizations where they apply English grammatical rules too broadly (e.g., saying *'childs'* or *'breaked'*). According to Error Analysis and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) theory, how should these two phenomena be correctly classified and distinguished?
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In second language acquisition, learner language often exhibits deviations from target norms that are systematically categorized. Wikipedia Reference explains that errors originating from the mother tongue (L1) are termed interlingual errors (or transfer/interference), whereas errors that occur due to the complex, creative construction of rules within the target language itself—such as overgeneralizing regular past-tense or plural markers—are termed intralingual or developmental errors.
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