A cogent, freshly written synthesis of new and classic work on crosslinguistic influence, or
language transfer, this book is an authoritative account of transfer in second-language …

The literature on crosslinguistic influence (Sharwood Smith and Kellerman 1986) or transfer,
as it has been traditionally called, is by now quite extensive, as befits a topic which has been …

Most studies on language transfer in the last three decades have focused primarily on the
influence of the native language on a second language or interlanguage. Despite many …

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 …

Researchers interested in cross-linguistic influence have several phrases to choose from in
referring to the phenomenon, including the following: language transfer, linguistic …

Defines language transfer as a psycholinguistic procedure by which second language
learners activate prior knowledge in developing or using their interlanguage. A functional …

Extrapolation from laboratory experiments to real life learning situations is not a scientifically
rigorous process. Nevertheless, it is possible to be systematic without at the same time being …

Crosslinguistic Influence and Second Language Learning provides a comprehensive
overview of what is currently known about prior language knowledge and experience in …

Behaviorist psychologists, who first defined 'transfer'technically, used it to refer to a process
described as the automatic, uncontrolled, and subconscious use of past learner behaviours …

This volume of studies on Language Transfer presents an array of ap proaches to this
important subarea of second language acquisition. As is de tailed in the introduction to this …