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STRATEGIES, LANGUAGE TRANSFER AND THE SIMULATION OF THE SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNER'S MENTAL OPERATIONS 1
Author(s) -
Smith Mike Sharwood
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
language learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.882
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1467-9922
pISSN - 0023-8333
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-1770.1979.tb01074.x
Subject(s) - focus (optics) , language transfer , psychology , linguistics , second language acquisition , transfer (computing) , phenomenon , transfer of training , negative transfer , second language , comprehension approach , simple (philosophy) , first language , computer science , cognitive psychology , language education , mathematics education , physics , epistemology , philosophy , quantum mechanics , parallel computing , optics
The focus of this paper is on language transfer and a particular method of investigating it. Attempts to analyze the decision procedures underlying a learner's (or second language user's) attempts to structure utterances in a given target language in the light of some recent hypotheses about transfer should highlight the importance of the phenomenon and emphasise the dubiousness of a fairly standard view of transfer as a relatively simple mechanical procedure which the learner falls back on when more‘creative’ strategies fail.