The author shows how similarities and differences between languages can influence grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation acquisition. Terence Odlin reconsiders a question that many language teachers and educational researchers have addressed: How much influence can a learner's native language have in making the acquisition of a new language easy or difficult? Odlin analyzes and interprets research showing many ways in which similarities and differences between languages can influence the acquisition of grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. In addition, he provides a detailed look at work on other areas important for the study of transfer, including discourse, individual variation, and sociolinguistic factors. Language teachers, applied linguists, and educational researchers will find this volume extremely valuable to their work.
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"I find this book to be extremely readable...I believe that the incorporation of the glossary will make it as readable and enjoyable for students as it was for me. There is no doubt in my mind that this is a book that has long been needed and for which there will be great demand." Jacquelyn Schachter, Language "This book is packed with information gleaned from the author's comprehensive review of the literature on the long-controversial topic of language transfer...One need not be a linguist or psychologist to profit from reading the work, as it is written in a very readable, non-technical style, and a glossary is provided for the limited number of technical terms the author does use." Gordon L. Jackson, Polylingua
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Terence Odlin reconsiders a question that many language teachers and educational researchers have addressed: How much influence can a learner's native language have in making the acquisition of a new language easy or difficult? Odlin analyzes and interprets research showing many ways in which similarities and differences between languages can influence the acquisition of grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. In addition, he provides a detailed look at work on other areas important for the study of transfer, including discourse, individual variation, and sociolinguistic factors. Language teachers, applied linguists, and educational researchers will find this volume extremely valuable to their work.
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When people hear a speaker with a "foreign accent," they often try to guess the speaker's background. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
substratum transfer, native language influence, phonetic mimicry, contrastive analysts, second language pronunciation, discourse transfer, postverbal negation, preverbal negation, contrastive analyses, second language discourse, second language performance, politeness scale, target language norms, borrowing transfer, nonstructural factors, devoicing rule, interlanguage phonology, language transfer, syntactic transfer, contrastive descriptions, second language acquisition, contrastive analysis, second language research, crosslinguistic influence, domain noun Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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When people hear a speaker with a "foreign accent," they often try to guess the speaker's background. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
substratum transfer, native language influence, phonetic mimicry, contrastive analysts, second language pronunciation, discourse transfer, postverbal negation, preverbal negation, contrastive analyses, second language discourse, second language performance, politeness scale, target language norms, borrowing transfer, nonstructural factors, devoicing rule, interlanguage phonology, language transfer, syntactic transfer, contrastive descriptions, second language acquisition, contrastive analysis, second language research, crosslinguistic influence, domain noun Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, American English, Universal Grammar, Liberian English, West Africa, Young People's Dyirbal New!
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- Language Transfer in Language Learning (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 5) by Susan M. Gass on 9 pages
- Second Language Acquisition (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Wolfgang Klein on 6 pages
- Crosslinguistic Influence in Second Language Acquisition (Language Teaching Methodology Series) by Eric Kellerman on 4 pages
- Second Language Acquisition: A Book of Readings by Evelyn Marcussen Hatch on 4 pages
- Universals of Second Language Acquisition by Fred R. Eckman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Sociolinguistic Theory: Linguistic Variation and Its Social Significance (Language in Society) by J. K. Chambers in Back Matter
- An Introduction to Applied Linguistics by Norbert Schmitt in Back Matter
- Issues in Modern Foreign Languages Teaching (Issues in Teaching Series) by K. Field on page 282
- Linguistic Awareness in Multilinguals: English as a Third Language by Ulrike Jessner in Back Matter
- Issues in Applied Linguistics by Michael McCarthy in Back Matter
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