Explorations of Language Transfer

2022-05-13
Explorations of Language Transfer

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  • Author: Terence Odlin
  • Publisher: Channel View Publications
  • ISBN: 178892956X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 258

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 their success. Such cross-linguistic influence, also known as language transfer, has long raised questions about what linguists can predict about success in the new language and about what processes are involved in using prior knowledge. This book lucidly brings together many insights on transfer: e.g. on the relation between translation and transfer, the relation between comprehension and production, and the problem of how complete any predictions of difficulty may ever be. The discussions also explore implications for future research and for classroom practice. The book will thus serve as a reliable guide for teachers, researchers, translators, interpreters, and students curious about language contact.

Language Transfer in Language Learning

1992-01-01
Language Transfer in Language Learning

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  • Author: Susan M. Gass
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027224684
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 247

The study of native language influence in Second Language Acquisition has undergone significant changes over the past few decades. This book, which includes 12 chapters by distinguished researchers in the field of second language acquisition, traces the conceptual history of language transfer from its early role within a Contrastive Analysis framework to its current position within Universal Grammar. The introduction presents a continuum of thought starting from the late 70s, a time in which major rethinking in the field regarding the concept of language transfer was beginning to take place, and continuing through the present day in which language transfer is integrated within current concepts and theoretical models. The afterword unites the issues discussed and allows the reader to place these issues in the context of future research. For the present book, the 1983 edition has been thoroughly revised, and some papers have been replaced and added.

Language Transfer

1989-06-30
Language Transfer

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  • Author: Terence Odlin
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 0521371686
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 224

Terence Odlin reconsiders a question that many language teachers and educational researchers have addressed: how much influence can a learner's native language have in making the acquisition of a new language easy or difficult? Transfer has long been a controversial issue, but many recent studies support the view that cross-linguistic influences can have an important impact on second language acquisition. Odlin analyzes and interprets research showing many ways in which similarities and differences between languages can influence the acquisition of grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. In addition he provides a detailed look at work on other areas important for the study of transfer including discourse, individual variation, and sociolinguistic factors. Language teachers, applied linguists, and educational researchers will find this volume highly accessible and extremely valuable to their work.

New Perspectives on Transfer in Second Language Learning

2015-10-09
New Perspectives on Transfer in Second Language Learning

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  • Author: Liming Yu
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1783094354
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 168

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.

Transfer Effects in Multilingual Language Development

2015-04-15
Transfer Effects in Multilingual Language Development

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  • Author: Hagen Peukert
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 902726869X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 353

This volume, dedicated to language transfer, starts out with state-of-the-art psycholinguistic approaches to language transfer involving studies on psycho-typological transfer, lexical interference and foreign accent. The next chapter on Transfer in Language Learning, Contact, and Change presents new empirical data from several languages (English, German, Russian, French, Italian) on various transfer phenomena ranging from second language acquisition and contact-induced change in word order to cross-linguistic influences in word formation and the lexicon. Transfer in Applied Linguistics scrutinizes, on the one hand, the external sources of language transfer by investigating bilingual resources and the school context, but also by pointing out the differences in academic language in multilingual adolescents. On the other hand, internal sources of language transfer in multilingual classrooms are illuminated. A final chapter directs its focus on methodological issues that arise when more than one language is studied systematically and it offers a solution on causal effects for the investigation of heritage language proficiencies. The chapter also includes studies that exploit more innovative methodologies on L1 identification and clitic acquisition.

Learner Corpora: Construction and Explorations in Chinese and Related Languages

2023-04-02
Learner Corpora: Construction and Explorations in Chinese and Related Languages

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  • Author: Howard Hao-Jan Chen
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 9811957312
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 330

This edited book reflects the state of the art in learner corpus and related approaches to Chinese as a second language (CSL). CSL as a field has flourished in the past few decades due to the increasingly important role of the Chinese language at the world stage, yet studies of Chinese as a second language based on learner corpora have been less well developed due to the limited availability of data and lack of theoretical insights. This book represents the latest research in this area by 1) assembling a large group of active researchers from multiple international research communities (USA, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Taiwan, and France); 2) discussing the latest resources and technologies in Chinese and other Asian languages learner corpora and corpus building; 3) basing Chinese as a second language studies on data from learners of Chinese with a wide range of first language backgrounds (English, Japanese, Korean, French, among others); and 4) integrating corpus methods with a wide range of related methods in allied fields—language acquisition, usage-based linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics. This comprehensive collection is indispensable for anyone who is interested in corpus approaches to CSL and Chinese applied language studies in general.

Spanish as a second and third language

2024-05-15
Spanish as a second and third language

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  • Author: Jonas Grünke
  • Publisher: Frank & Timme GmbH
  • ISBN: 3732909697
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 299

Spoken as a foreign language by around 24 million people worldwide, Spanish can be the second language (L2) of monolingually raised learners who acquire it in school. Ever more often it is also the third or a further language (L3) of learners who have previously studied another foreign language (for example Spanish after English in Germany) or who acquired more than one language during early childhood, as is the case with heritage speakers. This book explores the intersections between linguistics and language pedagogy related to the acquisition of L2 and L3 Spanish in various contexts worldwide. Fostering the interdisciplinary dialogue, it combines contributions by linguists and specialists in didactics, which not only examine the interface between basic linguistic and applied research but also develop proposals and materials for concrete teaching situations.

Approaching Language Transfer Through Text Classification

2012
Approaching Language Transfer Through Text Classification

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  • Author: Scott Jarvis
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 184769697X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 197

This volume explains the detection-based approach to investigating crosslinguistic influence and illustrates the value of the approach through a collection of five empirica studies that use the approach to quantify, evaluate, and isolate the influences of learners' native-language backgrounds on their English writing.

Humour in Audiovisual Translation

2019-12-06
Humour in Audiovisual Translation

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  • Author: Margherita Dore
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000762556
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 302

This book offers a comprehensive account of the audiovisual translation (AVT) of humour, bringing together insights from translation studies and humour studies to outline the key theories underpinning this growing area of study and their applications to case studies from television and film. The volume outlines the ways in which the myriad linguistic manifestations and functions of humour make it difficult for scholars to provide a unified definition for it, an issue made more complex in the transfer of humour to audiovisual works and their translations as well as their ongoing changes in technology. Dore brings together relevant theories from both translation studies and humour studies toward advancing research in both disciplines. Each chapter explores a key dimension of humour as it unfolds in AVT, offering brief theoretical discussions of wordplay, culture-specific references, and captioning in AVT as applied to case studies from Modern Family. A dedicated chapter to audio description, which allows the visually impaired or blind to assess a film’s non-verbal content, using examples from the 2017 film the Big Sick, outlines existing research to date on this under-explored line of research and opens avenues for future study within the audiovisual translation of humour. This book is key reading for students and scholars in translation studies and humour studies.

Theories of Reading Development

2017-08-15
Theories of Reading Development

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  • Author: Kate Cain
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 902726564X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 544

The use of printed words to capture language is one of the most remarkable inventions of humankind, and learning to read them is one of the most remarkable achievements of individuals. In recent decades, how we learn to read and understand printed text has been studied intensely in genetics, education, psychology, and cognitive science, and both the volume of research papers and breadth of the topics they examine have increased exponentially. Theories of Reading Development collects within a single volume state-of-the-art descriptions of important theories of reading development and disabilities. The included chapters focus on multiple aspects of reading development and are written by leading experts in the field. Each chapter is an independent theoretical review of the topic to which the authors have made a significant contribution and can be enjoyed on its own, or in relation to others in the book. The volume is written for professionals, graduate students, and researchers in education, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. It can be used either as a core or as a supplementary text in senior undergraduate and graduate education and psychology courses focusing on reading development.