Homo Sapiens. Homo Loquens. Homo Errans: (on one way of error prevention in language use)

Abstract

In the process of learning a foreign language the student is likely to make various mistakes and errors: articulatory (e.g. lengthening of short vowels and, vice versa, shortening of long vowels, violation of intonation patterns, etc.), lexical (known also as «false friends»), semantic (using an unappropriate word from a set of near-synonyms, or superonym instead of hyponym, and vice versa, etc.), grammar (agreement errors, word order violation, phrase structure errors, etc.), i.e. practically at all levels of language.