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Language Transfer in Language Learning
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Main description:The study of native language influence in Second Language Acquisition has undergone significant changes over the past few decades. This book, which includes 12 chapters by distinguished researchers in the field of second language acquisition, traces the conceptual history of language transfer from its early role within a Contrastive Analysis framework to its current position within Universal Grammar. The introduction presents a continuum of thought starting from the late 70s, a time in which major rethinking in the field regarding the concept of language transfer was beginning...
Main description:
The study of native language influence in Second Language Acquisition has undergone significant changes over the past few decades. This book, which includes 12 chapters by distinguished researchers in the field of second language acquisition, traces the conceptual history of language transfer from its early role within a Contrastive Analysis framework to its current position within Universal Grammar. The introduction presents a continuum of thought starting from the late 70s, a time in which major rethinking in the field regarding the concept of language transfer was beginning to take place, and continuing through the present day in which language transfer is integrated within current concepts and theoretical models. The afterword unites the issues discussed and allows the reader to place these issues in the context of future research. For the present book, the 1983 edition has been thoroughly revised, and some papers have been replaced and added.
Table of contents:
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- A Role for the Mother Tongue
- A New Account of Language Transfer
- Verification of Language Transfer
- Nonobvious Transfer
- Language Transfer and the Acquisition of Pronominal Anaphora
- Transfer and Variability of Rhetorical Redundancy in Apachean English Interlanguage
- Discourse Accent in Second Language Performance
- Discourse Functions in Interlanguage Morphology
- Prior Linguistic Knowledge and the Conversation of the Learning Procedure
- Language Transfer And Fossilization
- Universal Grammar
- Afterword
The study of native language influence in Second Language Acquisition has undergone significant changes over the past few decades. This book, which includes 12 chapters by distinguished researchers in the field of second language acquisition, traces the conceptual history of language transfer from its early role within a Contrastive Analysis framework to its current position within Universal Grammar. The introduction presents a continuum of thought starting from the late 70s, a time in which major rethinking in the field regarding the concept of language transfer was beginning to take place, and continuing through the present day in which language transfer is integrated within current concepts and theoretical models. The afterword unites the issues discussed and allows the reader to place these issues in the context of future research. For the present book, the 1983 edition has been thoroughly revised, and some papers have been replaced and added.
Table of contents:
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- A Role for the Mother Tongue
- A New Account of Language Transfer
- Verification of Language Transfer
- Nonobvious Transfer
- Language Transfer and the Acquisition of Pronominal Anaphora
- Transfer and Variability of Rhetorical Redundancy in Apachean English Interlanguage
- Discourse Accent in Second Language Performance
- Discourse Functions in Interlanguage Morphology
- Prior Linguistic Knowledge and the Conversation of the Learning Procedure
- Language Transfer And Fossilization
- Universal Grammar
- Afterword