The Importance of Cross-Linguistic Similarity in Foreign Language Learning

The Handbook of Language Teaching

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 106-118

  Ringbom, Håkan ^a   Jarvis, Scott ^b  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actual relation between L1 and L2; Actual, perceived, and assumed similarities; Cross linguistic similarities subjective process; Cross linguistic similarity in foreign language learning; Cross linguistic similarity relationships; Direct similarity effects on language; Learners assuming semantic and pragmatic similarities between L1 and TL; Learners' TL production and intrusive, inhibitive, and facilitative; Links between TL (target language) and prior linguistic knowledge; Swedish and English crossing of crucial similarity thresholds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865466055     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444315783.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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