Jeremy Harmer in his book The Practice of English Language Teaching says:
"Developmental errors: for a long time now researchers in child language development have been aware of the phenomenon of 'over-generalisation'. This is best described as a situation where a child who starts by saying Daddy went, They came, etc. perfectly correctly suddenly starts saying *Daddy goed and *They comed. (...) Foreign language students make the same kind of 'developmental' errors as well". (p. 100). We can infer that:
mistakes are subconsciously learnt and it is very difficult for a teacher to correct them;
when responding to errors, teachers should be seen as telling students off because they are wrong;
when second language learners make errors, they are demonstrating their difficulty in acquiring that language;
adults acquire a second language more easily than children because they are aware of grammar rules.
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