Language Transfer in Language Learning
Revised edition
2nd Edition
Published on 29. October 1992
Book
Hardback
236 pages
978-1-55619-240-1 (ISBN)
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.
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Series
Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
450 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55619-240-1 (9781556192401)
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Content
1. List of Contributors; 2. Preface; 3. Introduction (by Gass, Susan M.); 4. A Role for the Mother Tongue (by Corder, S. Pit); 5. A New Account of Language Transfer (by Schachter, Jacquelyn); 6. Verification of Language Transfer (by Ard, Josh); 7. Nonobvious Transfer: On Predicting Epenthesis Errors (by Broselow, Ellen); 8. Language Transfer and the Acquisition of Pronominal Anaphora (by Gundel, Jeanette K.); 9. Transfer and Variability of Rhetorical Redundancy in Apachean English Interlanguage (by Bartelt, H. Guillermo); 10. Discourse Accent in Second Language Performance (by Scarcella, Robin C.); 11. Discourse Functions in Interlanguage Morphology (by Jordens, Peter); 12. Prior Linguistic Knowledge and the Conversation of the Learning Procedure: Grammaticality judgments of Unilingual and Multilingual Learners (by Zobl, Helmut); 13. Language Transfer And Fossilization: The "Multiple Effects Principle" (by Selinker, Larry); 14. Universal Grammar: Is it Just a New Name for Old Problems?; 15. Afterword