l1 transfer in second language acquisition (sla) adapted from franceschina (2003)
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L1 transfer in Second Language
Acquisition (SLA)
Adapted from Franceschina (2003)
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What is transfer?
“[transfer is evidenced as] those instances of deviation from the norms of either language which occur in the speech of bilinguals as a result of their familiarity with more than one language”
Weinreich (1953: 1)
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“[transfer is] the use of the native language (or other language) information in the acquisition of an L2 (or additional language)”
Gass (1996: 321)
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“[transfer is] influence that the learner’s L1 exerts on the acquisition of an L2”
Ellis (1997: 51)
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Other terms
Transfer Mother tongue influence (Corder, 1967) Native language influence (Gass, 1996) Cross-linguistic influence (Kellerman and
Sharwood-Smith, 1986; Odlin, 1989) Cross-linguistic generalization (Zobl, 1984)
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Early research
1950s-1960s Behaviourism Lado (1957), Fries (1945) Positive transfer (facilitation)
vs Negative transfer (interference)
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Contrastive Analysis
Methodology (strong version of CAH):
1. Find out what the differences are between pairs of languages
2. On the basis of 1, you can predict areas in which L2 learners will have difficulties and those where they won’t
Pedagogical uses
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Contrastive Analysis (cont’d)
Difference = difficulty Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis (CAH)
(Lado 1957) include steps of description, selection, comparison, and prediction
Types/hierarchy of difficulty in L2: (more difficult) split — new — absent —
coalesced (two items in L1 become coalesced (come
together) into essentially one item in L2) — correspondence (less difficult) (p. 307)
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Contrastive Analysis Hypotheses
1. Strong form: errors can be predicted 2. Weak form: some are traceable; a posteriori explanation Strong form: theoretically untenable Work form: impractical/inadequate Lost ground to error analysis in the 1970s
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Problems with CAH
CAH was empirically unsupported:
– It predicted some difficulties that were not observed in L2 learners
– It failed to predict some difficulties that were observed in L2 learners
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Error Analysis
Corder (1967) Mistake vs Error EA methodology:
– Collect data– Identify errors– Classify errors– Quantify errors– Identify source– Remedy
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Classifying errors
Source or errors:
– Interlingual
– Intralingual
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Problems with E.A.
Total reliance on errors (not the whole picture)
Difficulties identifying source of errors
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Morpheme order studies
Dulay and Burt (1973, 1974)Bailey, Madden and Krashen (1974)
Claim: there is little or no influence of the L1 in L2 development
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Problems with no-L1-influence-on-SLA views
There IS empirical evidence of L1 influence
Methodological drawbacks of morphemes studies
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Krashen’s account of L1 transfer
No L1 influence in the acquired system
L1 influence is a communication strategy
(Krashen, 1982, 1985)
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Current views on transfer
General consensus: the L1 and general developmental processes shape SLA.
No agreement on what exactly each contributes, or how.
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Transfer may be realised as:
Errors Facilitation Avoidance strategies
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Where can transfer manifest itself?
Rate of acquisition Route of development Frequency of occurrence of errors/omissions Perception and production
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Recent developments
Transfer in L3 acquisition (Cenoz and Jessner, 2000)
L2 effects on the L1 (Cook, 2003)
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References
Bailey, N., C. G. Madden and S. D. Krashen. 1974: Is there a ‘natural sequence’ in adult second language learning? Language Learning 24, 235-243.
Cenoz, J. and U. Jessner. (eds.) 2000: English in Europe: the acquisition of a third language. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Corder, P. 1967: The significance of learner errors. International Review of Applied Linguistics (IRAL) 5, 2/3: 161-170.
Cook, V. J. (ed.) 2003: Effects of the second language on the first. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. Dulay, H. and M. Burt. 1973: Should we teach children syntax? Language Learning 23, 245-258. Dulay, H. and M. Burt.1974: Natural sequences in child second language acquisition. Language Learning
24, 37-53. Ellis, R. 1997: Second language acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Fries, C. 1945: Teaching and learning English as a foreign language. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press. Gass, S. M. 1996: Second language acquisition and linguistic theory: the role of language transfer, in W. C.
Ritchie and T. K. Bhatia, eds. The handbook of second language acquisition. San Diego: Academic Press. Pp. 317-345.
Kellerman, E. 1979: Transfer and non-transfer: where we are now. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 2, 37-57.
Kellerman, E. and M. Sharwood Smith. 1986: Crosslinguistic influence in second language acquisition. New York: Oxford University Press.
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References
Krashen, S. D. 1982: Principles and practice in SLA. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Krashen, S. D. 1985: The Input Hypothesis: issues and implications. London: Longman. Lado, R. 1957: Linguistics across cultures. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Odlin, T. 1989: Language transfer: cross-linguistic influence in language learning. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
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Reading
Gass, S. 1996: Second language acquisition and linguistic theory: the role of language transfer. In W. Ritchie and T. Bhatia (eds.): Handbook of second language acquisition. San Diego: Academic Press. Pp. 317-345.