Cross-linguistic Similarity in Foreign Language Learning: 21 (Second Language Acquisition) - Hardcover

Ringbom, Håkan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1853599352 ISBN 13: 9781853599354

Verlag: Multilingual Matters, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

This book explores the importance of cross-linguistic similarity in foreign language learning. Similarities can be perceived in the form of simplified one-to-one relationships or merely assumed. The book outlines the different roles of L1 transfer on comprehension and on production, and on close and distant target languages.

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Håkan Ringbom is Emeritus Professor of English at Åbo Akademi University, Turku/Åbo, Finland. His published monographs include a study of the narrative technique of Beowulf and Lawman’s Brut, a stylistic study of George Orwell’s essays and his 1987 study of the role of the first language in foreign language learning. He has also published some 50 articles in the fields of second language acquisition, multilingualism, corpus linguistics, contrastive analysis and stylistics.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Multilingual Matters
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1853599352
• ISBN 13: 9781853599354
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 154
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar