Crosslinguistic Influence in Second Language Acquisition

Abstract

Preface1. Terence Odlin: Was There Really Ever a Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis?2. Vivian Cook: Transfer and the Relationship Between the Languages of Multi-competence3. Hakan Ringbom: Comprehension, Learning and Production of Foreign Languages: The Role of Transfer4. John A. Lucy: The Implications of Linguistic Relativity for Language Learning5. Rena Helms-Park and Vedran Dronjic: Cross-linguistic Lexical Influence: Cognate Facilitation6. Rosa Alonso Alonso, Teresa Cadierno and Scott Jarvis: Cross-linguistic Influence in the Acquisition of Spatial Prepositions in English as a Foreign Language7. Jeanine Treffers-Daller and Xu Ziyan: Can Classroom Learners use Statistical Learning? A New Perspective on Motion Event Construal in a Second Language8. Monika Ekiert and Zhaohong Han: L1-fraught Difficulty: The Case of L2 Acquisition of English Articles by Slavic Speakers9. Panos Athanasopoulos and Bastien Boutonnet: Learning Grammatical Gender in a Second Language Changes Categorization of Inanimate Objects: Replications and New Evidence from English Learners of L2 French10. Ulrike Jessner, Manon Megens and Stefanie Graus: Crosslinguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition11. Janusz Arabski and Adam Wojtaszek: Contemporary Perspectives in Cross-linguistic Influence