New Perspectives on Transfer in Second Language Learning / / ed. by Liming Yu, Terence Odlin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Cai, Jinting,; Chang, Hui,; Gao, Yusong,; Jarvis, Scott,; Li, Hong,; Li, Jia,; Li, Shaopeng,; Mitchell, David,; Odlin, Terence,; Paribakht, T. Sima,; Singleton, David,; Wang, Chuming,; Wesche, Marjorie Bingham,; Yang, Lianrui,; Yu, Liming,; Zhang, Lei,; Zheng, Lina,; Zhou, Ling,
• HerausgeberIn: Odlin, Terence,; Yu, Liming,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Second Language Acquisition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

When people attempt to learn a new language, the language(s) they already know can help but also hinder their understanding or production of new forms. This phenomenon, known as language transfer, is the focus of this book. The collection offers new theoretical perspectives, some in the empirical studies and some in other chapters, and consists of four sections considering lexical, syntactic, phonological and cognitive perspectives. The volume provides a wealth of studies on the influence of Chinese on the acquisition of English but also includes studies involving Finnish, French, Hindi, Korean, Persian, Spanish, Swedish and Tamil. It will be of great interest to researchers and students working in the areas of crosslinguistic influence in second language acquisition, language pedagogy and psycholinguistics.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Scope of Transfer Research -- Part 1: Lexical Perspectives -- 3. Cross-Lexical Interaction and the Structure of the Mental Lexicon -- 4. L1 Transfer in Chinese Learners' Use of Spatial Prepositions in EFL -- 5. L1 Influences in L2 Lexical Inferencing -- Part 2: Syntactic Perspectives -- 6. An Investigation of Topic-Prominence in Interlanguage of Chinese EFL Learners: A Discourse Perspective -- 7. Investigating the Impact of L1 Morphology and Semantics on L2 Acquisition of English Detransitivized Constructions by Chinese and Korean Learners -- 8. The Role of L1 in the Acquisition of Chinese Causative Constructions by English-Speaking Learners -- Part 3: Phonological Perspectives -- 9. L1 Influence on the Learning of English Lexical Stress Patterns: Evidence from Chinese Early and Late EFL Learners -- 10. SLA Perspectives on Language Contact: An Experimental Study on Retroflexion -- Part 4: Cognitive Perspectives -- 11. Language Transfer and the Link between Comprehension and Production -- 12. Context and Language Transfer -- 13. Conclusion: A Few More Questions -- Index of Persons Cited