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Cross-Linguistic Transfer and Language Proficiency in the Multilingual Education System of Burundi: What Has the Existing Literature so Far Discovered?

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Nsengiyumva, Dominique Savio; Oriikiriza, Celestino; Nakijoba, Sarah – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2021

This paper discussed Cross-Linguistic Transfer (CLT) and Language Proficiency in multilingual education in general and highlighted samples of CLT in Burundi as the existing literature reveals. As there exist CLT on all linguistic levels, this discussion has provided examples of phonological (including phonetics), lexical and semantic, and…

Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Language Proficiency, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning

Transferred L1 Strategies and L2 Syntactic Structure in L2 Sentence Comprehension.

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Koda, Keiko – Modern Language Journal, 1993

The application of language processing skills between 2 languages with dissimilar morphosyntactic features was investigated with 72 American university students learning Japanese. Results suggest that learners' first- and second-language knowledge both play a significant role and that the linguistic knowledge and coding capability for text…

Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), English, Japanese, Language Processing