Language Transfer in Language Learning : Revised edition

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gass, Susan M.

Contributor:

Selinker, Larry, 1937-

Series:

Language Acquisition and Language Disorders ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language transfer (Language learning).

Local Subjects:

Language transfer (Language learning).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1992.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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, a

Contents:

CONTENTS; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. A Role for the Mother Tongue; 3. A New Account of Language Transfer; 4. Verification of Language Transfer; 5. Transfer and Universals in Second Language Epenthesis; 6. Language Transfer and the Acquisition of Pronouns; 7. Rhetorical Transfer in Apachean English; 8. Interethnic Conversation and Second Language Acquisition:Discourse Accent Revi sited; 9. The Cognitive Function of Case Marking in German as a Nativeand a Foreign Language

10. Prior Linguistic Knowledge and the Conservation of the LearningProcedure: Grammaticality Judgments of Unilingual and MultilingualLearners11. Language Transfer And Fossilization: The ""Multiple Effects Principle""; 12. Universal Grammar: Is it Just a New Name for Old Problems?; Afterword

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-28024-8

9786613280244

90-272-8178-5

OCLC:

748242178