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Strategies, Language Transfer and the Simulation of the Second Language Learner's Mental Operations.
Peer reviewedSmith, Mike Sharwood – Language Learning, 1979
An attempt is made to describe second language behavior and language transfer in cybernetic terms. This should make it possible to translate language into machine language and to clarify psycholinguistic explanations of second language performance. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cybernetics, Interference (Language), Interlanguage
