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Chan, Alice Y. W. – Modern Language Journal, 2004
This article presents evidence of syntactic transfer from Chinese to English based on data obtained from 710 Hong Kong Chinese ESL learners at different proficiency levels. Three methodologies were used: self-reporting in individual interviews, translation (with and without prompts), and grammaticality judgment. The focus of the study was on 5…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Interlanguage, English (Second Language)
Tarone, Elaine – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2002
Ellis's target article suggests that language processing is based on frequency and probabilistic knowledge and that language learning is implicit. These findings are consistent with those of SLA researchers working within a variationist framework (e.g., Tarone, 1985; Bayley & Preston, 1996). This paper provides a brief overview of this research…
Descriptors: Creativity, Language Variation, Language Processing, Social Environment
Abrahamsson, Niclas – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
This study deals with the development and recoverability of word-final codas in Chinese-Swedish interlanguage. The relation between consonant deletion and vowel epenthesis is investigated from both a developmental perspective and a grammatical-functional one. Longitudinal, conversational data from three Chinese beginner learners of Swedish were…
Descriptors: Validity, Language Proficiency, Swedish, Uncommonly Taught Languages
Becker, Angelika; Veenstra, Tonjes – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
In traditional classifications of languages by inflectional subsystems, both creole languages and the results of untutored SLA (interlanguages) are classified as isolating. We focus on remnants of verbal inflectional morphology in French-related creoles and ask: (a) Can the properties of verbal morphology be attributed to SLA, and (b) what does…
Descriptors: Creoles, Verbs, Morphology (Languages), French
Dekydtspotter, Laurent; Hathorn, Jon C. – Second Language Research, 2005
We discuss the results of an experiment that investigates English-French learners' interpretation of quantifiers with detachable restrictions. Such quantifiers are ungrammatical in English. We investigate aspects of interpretation that rely on a highly idiosyncratic interface between grammar and general principles of conversational cooperation in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Interlanguage, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Chan, Alice Y. W. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2006
This article discusses the strategies used by Cantonese ESL learners to cope with their problems in pronouncing English initial consonant clusters. A small-scale research study was carried out with six secondary and six university students in Hong Kong, who were asked to perform four speech tasks: the reading of a word list, the description of a…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Phonology, Interlanguage, Word Lists
Carlisle, Robert S. – Issues and Developments in English and Applied Linguistics (IDEAL), 1988
A study investigated whether markedness relationships within a target language influence the degree of difficulty in acquisition. The Intralingual Markedness Hypothesis was developed, stating that if structures in the target language differ from those in the native language, and if those structures in the target language are in a markedness…
Descriptors: Adults, English (Second Language), Interlanguage, Language Research
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
Birner, Betty, Ed. – 1999
This brochure discusses, in lay terms, the degree to which language shapes thought. The first section describes briefly the questions that linguists have addressed in studying this issue, including how things such as location or time may be conceptualized differently in different language groups, offering examples from other languages in addition…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Information Processing, Interlanguage, Language Processing
Hill, David J. – Edinburgh Working Papers in Linguistics, 1991
A study was carried out in Kenya to investigate the oral lexical production of learners of English as a Second Language with different native languages. The overall results revealed a clear difference between the Kenya language speakers on the one hand and native speakers on the other: native speakers showed an overwhelming preference for manner…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Interlanguage
Zhang, Xiaolin – 1990
A study investigated language transfer in the writing of 20 Spanish-speaking learners of English as a Second Language (ESL). Research on language transfer is critically reviewed, and it is concluded that existing theory supports a reconceptualization of language transfer as a form of second language (L2) learning/communication strategy that…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Intensive Language Courses, Interlanguage, Learning Strategies
Jordens, Peter – Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen (Applied Linguistics in Articles), 1990
The first contacts between linguistics and second language acquisition date from the period of contrastive analysis of languages, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. When contrastive analysis failed as an explanatory model, linguists lost interest in second language research and descriptive/contrastive studies declined, resulting in a changed…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Jones, Francis R. – 1991
Translation is a real-life communication skill that should be incorporated into second language instruction. Communicative language teaching theory recognizes the importance of learning to handle foreign language internal transfer. Classroom activities to promote such language transfer skills include the following: (1) pairing students to…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Foreign Countries, Interlanguage

Corder, S. Pit – Modern Language Journal, 1975
This article discusses the importance of understanding the language learning process for more effective teaching. Language learning is seen as no different from other cognitive processes, and is considered a creative activity. Variables that determine the nature of language learning are discussed. (CLK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Error Patterns, Interlanguage
Hakuta, Kenji – 1990
With respect to the ultimate goal for limited English proficient students, it would appear that the policy of transitional bilingual education in the United States is explicitly non-bilingual, incorporating a minimalist form of bilingualism for the period students are in the programs, and viewing the first language as only instrumental insofar as…
Descriptors: Age, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cognitive Development