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Mahdavi Emamy, Saideh – ProQuest LLC, 2017
A great deal of research concerning the acquisition of English morphology as a second language has been carried out in order to explain some typical stages in the acquisition of the English-s morphemes and the difficulty confronted by second language learners. According to Siegel (2003), interlanguage and functional transfer both play a crucial…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Transfer of Training, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Noor, Hashim H. – Linguistica Communicatio, 1994
Research on the role of the first language (L1) in second language (L2) learning is reviewed, offering historical background but focusing primarily on work within the last two decades. Attention is given mainly to two aspects of the L1-L2 relationship: positive transfer of knowledge from L1 in the process of learning L2, and negative transfer, or…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Interference (Language), Interlanguage, Language Acquisition