Language Transfer

by Terence Odlin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521378095
• ISBN13: 9780521378093
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"