(DOWNLOAD) "Cross-Linguistic Influence in the Production of German Prepositions by Polish Learners of English and German." by Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Cross-Linguistic Influence in the Production of German Prepositions by Polish Learners of English and German.
- Author : Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 225 KB
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ABSTRACT Multilingualism is an increasingly common phenomenon in today's world as the number of people able to speak and/or understand more than one foreign language is growing. Consequently, many linguists, formerly preoccupied with bilinguals, now attempt to investigate multilingual minds. Many experiments have been carried out in order to determine patterns in which languages known to the individual are stored in the mind. In the course of psycholinguistic research linguists have observed a phenomenon known as cross-linguistic influence (or transfer), i.e. interaction of all languages known to the individual in his or her mind. Moreover, the researchers have identified a set of factors which exert influence on the process of transfer. The identified factors are psychotypological distance of the involved languages, special status of the second language (L2 status), recency of use of the languages, context of interaction and proficiency in all the languages known to a multilingual speaker. The aim of this paper is to report and discuss an experiment carried out in order to examine the importance of cross-linguistic influence and its factors in the performance of a group of Polish learners of English and German.