Crosslinguistic Influence and Distinctive Patterns of Language Learning : : Findings and Insights from a Learner Corpus / / ed. by Anne Golden, Scott Jarvis, Kari Tenfjord.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Golden, Anne,; Gujord, Ann-Kristin Helland,; Janik, Marta Olga,; Jarvis, Scott,; Kinn, Torodd,; Kulbrandstad, Lars Anders,; Ragnhildstveit, Silje,; Szymańska, Oliwia,; Tenfjord, Kari,
• HerausgeberIn: Golden, Anne,; Jarvis, Scott,; Tenfjord, Kari,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Second Language Acquisition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book details patterns of language use that can be found in the writing of adult immigrant learners of Norwegian as a second language (L2). Each study draws its data from a single corpus of texts written for a proficiency test of L2 Norwegian by learners representing 10 different first language (L1) backgrounds. The participants of the study are immigrants to Norway and the book deals with the varying levels and types of language difficulties faced by such learners from differing backgrounds. The studies examine the learners' use of Norwegian in relation to the morphological, syntactic, lexical, semantic and pragmatic patterns they produce in their essays. Nearly all the studies in the book rely on analytical methods specifically designed to isolate the effects of the learners' L1s on their use of L2 Norwegian, and every chapter highlights patterns that distinguish different L1 groups from one another.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Transfer: An Overview with an Expanded Scope -- 3. The 'Perfect Candidate' for Transfer: A Discussion of L1 Influence in L2 Acquisition of Tense-Aspect Morphology -- 4. On How Polish Learners of Norwegian Render Spatial Prepositions in L2: A Corpus-Based Study of i and på -- 5. Positive and Negative Transfer in the L2 Adjective Inflection of English-, German- and Polish-speaking Learners of L2 Norwegian -- 6. Gender Assignment and L1 Transfer in Norwegian Second Language Learners' Written Performance -- 7. Stranded or Lost? Preposition Stranding in Norwegian Learner Languages -- 8. Emotions Negotiated in L2 Texts: A Corpus Study of Written Production by Adult Learners on a Norwegian Test -- 9. Evaluation of Texts in Tests, or: Where is the Dog Buried? -- Author Index -- Subject Index