Long-term crosslinguistic transfer of skills from L1 to L2

Language Learning

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 203-243

  Sparks, Richard ^a,c   Patton, Jon ^b   Ganschow, Leonore ^b   Humbach, Nancy ^b  

^a College of Mt St Joseph ^*  (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c College of Mount St Joseph ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Crosslinguistic transfer; L1 skills; L2 aptitude; L2 learning; L2 proficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 61849124838     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2009.00504.x     Document Type: Article

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