Cross-linguistic Similarity in Foreign Language Learning (Second Language Acquisition)

✍ Scribed by Hakan Ringbom

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 153
Category: Library

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✦ 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.

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