Cross-linguistic Similarity in Foreign Language LearningThis book explores the importance of cross-linguistic similarity in foreign language learning. Similarities can be perceived in the form of simplified one-to-one relationships or merely assumed. The book outlines the different roles of L1 transfer on comprehension and on production, and on close and distant target languages. |
Contents
Contents | 4 |
Learner Expectations Online Comprehension and Receptive | 14 |
The Use of Crosslinguistic Similarities The Finnish Scene | 34 |
Tests of English Comparing Finnish and Swedish Speakers | 41 |
Items and Procedures Systems | 58 |
Areas of Language | 65 |
Skill Theory Automaticity and Foreign Language Learning | 93 |
Development of Foreign Language Learning | 102 |
Further Research Needed | 119 |
V | 124 |
2 | 125 |
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2d Composite Default Åbo Akademi Åbo Akademi University advanced learners bilingual calques Composite Default screen comprehension and production context Cross-linguistic Similarity deceptive cognates Default screen Chapter Default screen Item early stages equivalences errors EuroCom exam facilitate Finland Finland-Swedish Finnish and Swedish Finnish learners Finnish schools Foreign Language Learning formal similarity frequently German Germanic languages grammar item learning Jarvis L2 comprehension language shifts learners of English learning for comprehension learning for production learning strategies lexical items linguistic similarities listening comprehension loanwords Matriculation Examination meaning Meara mental lexicon MLM Ringbom Proof native speakers native-like non-native language occur Odlin perceived similarity phonological prepositions problems procedural knowledge procedural transfer proficiency Proof 2d Composite related languages relevant Ringbom Proof 2d screen Item Transfer second language Similarity in Foreign stages of learning structures studies Swedes Swedish speakers Swedish-speaking Swedish-speaking Finns system learning target language tion Transfer in Production unrelated languages vocabulary words