Interlanguage Essays

  • The Interlanguage Theory In Second Language

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    Interlanguage theory Before going to the other concerns, first we will have a look at the Interlanguage Theory as it is very important in the second language with relation to SLA. The term interlanguage was used by Selinker (1972) when he described the rules of structure at the Intermediate grammar level given for the learners of second language to achieve their target language. In spite of the inadequacy of the nature of this grammar, Selinker says that it makes a unity of the whole as this grammar

  • English As An International Language Annotated Bibliography

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    (1998). The Role of Interlanguage in Foreign Language Teaching. Iral, 36(1), 1-10. The study done by Nickel discusses the nature of interlanguage and the effects this phenomenon has on second language learning and teaching. This article mainly focuses on the language transfer and fossilization, while also discussing the way in which error analysis and error correction can be improved through understanding of the concept of interlanguage. Moreover, native speaker norms, as well

  • Essay On Contrastive Analysis

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    system that L2 learners use and is different from their L1 and a target language as “Interlanguage”. He claimed that L2 learners have different linguistic systems of Interlanguage respectively and furthermore it has dynamic features and even the same L2 learners get to have different systems depending on their developmental stage and learning process. Interestingly, it was found from an analysis of interlanguage that some consistent errors exist in a linguistic system of language use of L2 learners

  • New Mexican Dialect

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    Dialect, most people would agree, is the first practical identifier of a person. Yes, there is an unholy amount to be said for visual judgements –physical appearance holds unconscious powers that vocals will never achieve- but when considering true, difficult-to-mask features of a person, one’s speech is the foremost artifact in identification that is, most of the time, genuine. Language is the binding that holds our whole book of life together: your language, and more specifically, your dialect

  • Annotated Bibliography Esl Writing

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    Annotated Bibliography EFL Writing Transfer, Fossilization, and Treatment Berninger, V. W., Vaughan, K. B., Abbott, R. D., Abbott, S. P., Rogan, L. W., Brooks, A., Reed, E., & Graham, S. (1997). Treatment of handwriting problems in beginning writers: Transfer from handwriting to composition. Journal of Educational Psychology, 89(4), 652-666. doi:10.1037/0022-0663.89.4.652 This article discusses the results from a twelve-week project aimed at the treatment of handwriting problems in beginner writers

  • Introducing Second Language Acquisition

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    Learning a second language has become really important as the years pass because of the necessity of being communicated, and Chilean people are aware of this. Some years ago, the Education minister Joaquin Lavin announced that the new Chile’s goal is to be a bilingual country within the next 20 years. Since that declaration, many projects have started in order to develop Chilean student’s English skills, which are listening, writing, reading and speaking. The last skill mentioned is the one in which

  • Corpus-Driven Discourse Analysis In Paid Game App Descriptions

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    Corpus-driven Discourse Analysis in Paid Game App Descriptions Sharon Chung 12112514D Eliza Yong 12117165D Introduction Everytime when most of the customers decide to download a new app to their smartphones, the app description would eventually appeal to their eyes first when they want to know what the app is actually about beforehand. The game descriptions, for some, might be the first channel ever to reach or to connection with their customers. This has revealed significantly the importance and

  • Language Development In Multicultural Education

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    2.0 INTRODUCTION Language development happens both inside the classroom (as part of a formal establishment, school or institute) and outside it. The classroom is generally considered a formal setting, and most other environments informal, with respect to language learning. “In environments where informal language development is adequate, it is possible to regard the formal classroom as supplemental, complementary, facilitating and consolidating”(Van Lier, 1988: 20). For second-language development