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Record Nr.

UNINA9911008426203321

Titolo

Crosslinguistic Influence and Distinctive Patterns of Language Learning : Findings and Insights from a Learner Corpus / / Anne Golden, Scott Jarvis, Kari Tenfjord

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

9781783098781

1783098783

9781783098774

1783098775

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Second Language Acquisition

Disciplina

439.8280071

Soggetti

Norwegian language - Study and teaching

Norwegian language - Grammar, Generative

Interlanguage (Language learning) - Norway

Multilingualism - Norway

Second language acquistion - Norway

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Transfer: An Overview with an Expanded Scope -- 3. The ‘Perfect Candidate’ for Transfer: A Discussion of L1 Influence in L2 Acquisition of Tense-Aspect Morphology -- 4. On How Polish Learners of Norwegian Render Spatial Prepositions in L2: A Corpus-Based Study of i and på -- 5. Positive and Negative Transfer in the L2 Adjective Inflection of English-, German- and Polish-speaking Learners of L2 Norwegian -- 6. Gender Assignment and L1 Transfer in Norwegian Second Language Learners’ Written Performance -- 7. Stranded or Lost? Preposition Stranding in Norwegian Learner Languages -- 8. Emotions Negotiated in L2 Texts: A Corpus Study of Written Production by Adult Learners on a Norwegian Test -- 9. Evaluation of Texts in Tests, or: Where is the Dog Buried? -- Author Index -- Subject Index



Sommario/riassunto

This book details patterns of language use that can be found in the writing of adult immigrant learners of Norwegian as a second language (L2). Each study draws its data from a single corpus of texts written for a proficiency test of L2 Norwegian by learners representing 10 different first language (L1) backgrounds. The participants of the study are immigrants to Norway and the book deals with the varying levels and types of language difficulties faced by such learners from differing backgrounds. The studies examine the learners’ use of Norwegian in relation to the morphological, syntactic, lexical, semantic and pragmatic patterns they produce in their essays. Nearly all the studies in the book rely on analytical methods specifically designed to isolate the effects of the learners’ L1s on their use of L2 Norwegian, and every chapter highlights patterns that distinguish different L1 groups from one another.