The study of native language influence in Second Language Acquisition has undergone significant changes over the past few decades. This book, which includes 12
When learners of a new language draw on their native language (or on any other that they may know), this earlier acquired linguistic knowledge may influence the
Terence Odlin reconsiders a question that many language teachers and educational researchers have addressed: how much influence can a learner's native language
This volume, dedicated to language transfer, starts out with state-of-the-art psycholinguistic approaches to language transfer involving studies on psycho-typol