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Cross-Linguistic Interference: L1, L2, L3 (+) Acquisition of French Adverbial Pronouns en and Y by Bilingual Spanish and English-Speaking Students of the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras: Implicit-Inductive Teaching/Learning versus Explicit Teaching/Deductive Learning

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Beloucif, Oihida – ProQuest LLC, 2017

This is a longitudinal case study of two groups of students (24 students in total) from the Foreign Languages Department of the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras. This research deals with the acquisition of the French adverbial pronouns "en" and "y" through two different teaching approaches, the implicit-inductive teaching…

Descriptors: Interference (Language), French, Portuguese, Pretests Posttests

Don't Put Your Leg in Your Mouth: Transfer in the Acquisition of Idioms in a Second Language.

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Irujo, Suzanne – TESOL Quarterly, 1986

Describes an investigation into whether second language learners use knowledge of their first language to comprehend and produce idioms in the second language. Results showed identical idioms were the easiest to comprehend, similar idioms were comprehended almost as well, and different idioms were the most difficult to comprehend and produce.…

Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Comprehension, English (Second Language)