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Crosslinguistic Influence: Transfer to Nowhere?
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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 wreathed in controversy ever since the fledgling days of second language acquisition (SLA). Perhaps few other research interests have been so affected by shifts of paradigm or fashion; yet whether we consider its importance primary or peripheral, an understanding of the part played by knowledge of one's first or other languages in the acquisition of a second remains an essential goal of SLA theory.
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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 Kellerman, 1995
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- Authors
- Kellerman, E.
- Corresponding author
- Kellerman, Eric
- Venue
- Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1995-03
- Volume
- 15
- Pages
- 125-150
- ISSN
- 0267-1905 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-6356
- OpenAlex
- W2143436733
- Cited by
- 279
- References
- 77
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 13.55
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (publishedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- 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, transfer, second language acquisition, first language knowledge
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