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Pit Corder (6 October 1918 - 27 January 1990^[1]) was a professor of linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. His important work was studying errors that language learners make. This is called error analysis. He was the first chairman of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, 1967-70.^[1]

Early life

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Pit Corder was born at 4 Bootham Terrace, York, into a Quaker family.^[1][2] His full name was Stephen Pit Corder. His father, Philip Corder (b. 1885), was a schoolteacher from an English family, and his mother, Johanna Adriana van der Mersch (b. 1887), was Dutch.^[2] Pit studied at Bootham School, a Quaker boarding school near York. His father was a master at the school. Corder studied modern languages at Merton College, Oxford University, from 1936 to 1939.^[2]

After Oxford, Corder began teaching at Great Ayton Friends' School. Then, during World War II, he was in the Friend