Language Transfer and Universal Grammatical Relations  

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Gass, Susan

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies (Full Text) vol. 29 no. 2 (Dec. 1979), page 327-344.
Fulltext: 29_02_Gas.pdf (1.03MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LLE/29 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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It is generally accepted by both theoreticians and language teachers that when attempting to communicate in a second lan- guage, learners often “transfer” elements of their native larguage onto the speech patterns of the target language. Despite the wide recognition of this phenomenon and the iniportant role it has had in language learning and pedagogical march, its true nature has not been adequately established. In oder to better determine the nature of language transfer, a study investigating the acquisi- tion of relative clauses by adult second language learners was con- ducted. The purposes of ths study were to determine what language transfer consists of, what language phenomena are and are not transferred, what constitutes evidence for the existence of transfer and what the role in language transfer of language uni- versals is. It was found that an adequate description of language transfer cannot be given without a consideration of target lan- guage facts and language universals. On the basis of these results a model of language transfer is proposed that predicts under which conditions transfer is most likely to occur. The niodel sug- gested herein includes notions of language universals, language distance and surface language phenomena

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