Cross-linguistic Similarity in Foreign Language Learning

✍ Scribed by Håkan Ringbom

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 152
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores the importance of cross-linguistic similarity in foreign language learning. Similarities can be perceived in the form of simplified one-to-one relationships or merely assumed. The book outlines the different roles of L1 transfer on comprehension and on production, and on close and distant target languages.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Different Types of Cross-linguistic Similarities
Chapter 3. Learner Expectations, On-line Comprehension and Receptive Learning
Chapter 4. Cross-linguistic Similarities in Comprehension and Production: The Mental Lexicon
Chapter 5. Transfer: The Use of Cross-linguistic Similarities. The Finnish Scene
Chapter 6. Tests of English Comparing Finnish and Swedish Speakers in Finland
Chapter 7. Levels of Transfer: Items and Procedures (Systems)
Chapter 8. Item Transfer in Production: Areas of Language
Chapter 9. Skill Theory, Automaticity and Foreign Language Learning
Chapter 10. Development of Foreign Language Learning
Chapter 11. Consequences for Teaching
Chapter 12. Further Research Needed
Chapter 13. Conclusion
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
References
Index of Persons Cited