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Language Transfer: Cross-Linguistic Influence in Language Learning
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The author shows how similarities and differences between languages can influence grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation acquisition. 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? 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 extremely valuable to their work.
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“Third, in transfer from L1: Adult SLA builds on preexisting L1 knowledge (Kellerman, 1995; MacWhinney, 1992; Odlin, 1989).”
From FREQUENCY EFFECTS IN LANGUAGE PROCESSING: A Review with Implications for Theories of Implicit and Explicit Language Acquisition (2002) · cites this paper as Odlin, 1989
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Ellis, N. C. (2002) · Studies in Second Language Acquisition · doi:10.1017/s0272263102002024 · Cited by 2,230
Sequencing in SLA: Phonological Memory, Chunking, and Points of Order
Ellis, N. C. (1996) · Studies in Second Language Acquisition · doi:10.1017/s0272263100014698 · Cited by 837
Melby‐Lervåg, M., & Lervåg, A. (2011) · Journal of Research in Reading · doi:10.1111/j.1467-9817.2010.01477.x · Cited by 371
Crosslinguistic Influence: Transfer to Nowhere?
Kellerman, E. (1995) · Annual Review of Applied Linguistics · doi:10.1017/s0267190500002658 · Cited by 279
Lin, C. Y., Cheng, C., & Wang, M. (2018) · Reading and Writing · doi:10.1007/s11145-017-9775-8 · Cited by 38
Wang, X., McMillen, S., & Shi, Y. (2025) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1566442 · Cited by 3
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- Authors
- Odlin, T.
- Corresponding author
- Odlin, Terence
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 1989-06-30
- Volume
- 1989
- Issue
- 1989
- Pages
- 1-99
- OpenAlex
- W4229742165
- Cited by
- 1,429
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 25.71
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistics and Language Analysis
- Keywords
- language transfer, second language acquisition, first language influence, grammar learning, vocabulary acquisition, pronunciation acquisition, discourse, interindividual variability, sociolinguistic factors
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