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Reseña del editor
Of the many variables affecting foreign language learning, the learner's first language is of especially great importance. The recent emphasis on language learning processes rather than linguistic products has given a new slant to what was earlier known as transfer studies. This book is concerned with the foreign language learner's underlying processes. It is based on data from Finland showing the differences between Finnish-speaking and Swedish-speaking Finns learning English. These two groups are close to each other culturally and educationally, though they are linguistically quite different. The results of the study reveal clear differences between learning a foreign language that is related and a language that is unrelated to the learner's first language. The basic importance of perceived similarities between the first language and the target language is stressed. The book analyses the different ways in which the learner's knowledge of the first language and other languages affect the processes of comprehension and production. A concluding section of the book sums up the relevance of its findings for foreign language teaching.
Biografía del autor
HAYkan Ringbom is Emeritus Professor of English at A bo Akademi University, Turku/A bo, Finland. His published monographs include a study of the narrative technique of Beowulf and Lawmana s Brut, a stylistic study of George Orwella 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.
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- EditorialMultilingual Matters
- Año de publicación1987
- ISBN 10 0905028805
- ISBN 13 9780905028804
- EncuadernaciónTapa blanda
- IdiomaInglés
- Número de páginas192
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