The effected of an Overview on the history of contrastive analysis in English

Pedagogical Contrastive Analysis and Its Psychological Basis Throughout the fifties and until the late sixties, pedagogical contrastive analysis was used extensively in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) as a method of explaining why some features of the target language are more difficult to acquire than others.As Ellis & Barkhuizen (۲۰۰۵) explain, CA involved describing comparable features across the two languages, identifying the differences and, then, predicting what errors learners would make. It served two major purposes: first it provided an explanation for why learners make errors, and secondly it served as a source of information for identifying which structural areas of the TL teachers needed to teach (i.e., those where negative transfer was likely).