<p><em>Crosslinguistic Influence and Second Language Learning</em> provides a comprehensive overview of what is currently known about prior language knowledge and experience in second language learning. Three bodies of research are critically reviewed to achieve this goal: (i) theories of language l
Crosslinguistic Influence in Second Language Acquisition
β Scribed by Rosa Alonso Alonso (editor)
- Publisher
- Multilingual Matters
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 246
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This collection provides an unprecedented insight into current approaches to the phenomenon of crosslinguistic influence (CLI) in SLA. Chapters investigate a variety of issues, structures and languages from different viewpoints to provide new perspectives on theoretical and empirical issues in CLI.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents
Contributors
Preface
1. Was there Really Ever a Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis?
2. Transfer and the Relationships Between the Languages of Multi-Competence
3. Comprehension, Learning and Production of Foreign Languages: The Role of Transfer
4. The Implications of Linguistic Relativity for Language Learning
5. Crosslinguistic Lexical Influence: Cognate Facilitation
6. Crosslinguistic Influence in the Acquisition of Spatial Prepositions in English as a Foreign Language
7. Can Classroom Learners Use Statistical Learning? A New Perspective on Motion Event Construal in a Second Language
8. L1-Fraught Difficulty: The Case of L2 Acquisition of English Articles by Slavic Speakers
9. Learning Grammatical Gender in a Second Language Changes Categorization of Inanimate Objects: Replications and New Evidence from English Learners of L2 French
10. Crosslinguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition
11. Contemporary Perspectives in Crosslinguistic Influence
Index
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