Essays about: "L1 interference"

Found 5 essays containing the words L1 interference.

  1. 1. Processing of tense and aspect manipulations on-line in the first and second language: a self-paced reading study with Russian advanced learners of English.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Elena Eriksson; [2016]
    Keywords : tense-aspect agreement violations; self-paced reading; L1 processing; L2 processing; present perfect; tense; Aspect; telicity; L1 interference; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The present study investigates how native speakers of British English (n=12) and advanced Russian learners of English (n=24) handle two types of tense-aspect mismatches: present perfect mismatches, where the present perfect form does not match the preceding adverbial (e.g. READ MORE

  3. 2. Induction of HPV-16 Late Gene Expression Through Use of Small Molecule Drugs

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa

    Author : Caroline Andrén; [2016]
    Keywords : Human papillomavirus type 16; Cervical cancer; Cell culture; TPA; CAT ELISA;

    Abstract : Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women worldwide. The principal cause of cervical cancer is infection with human papillomavirus (HPV). HPV-16 is a high-risk virus and it is responsible for a high portion of all HPV-caused cancers. The HPV-16 genome consists of early and late genes. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Mind or the Mother Tongue? : A study of grammatical errors among L1 Swedish learners in Year 9

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Mikaela Englund; [2015]
    Keywords : L2 acusition; contrastive analysis hypothesis; errors; mistakes;

    Abstract : This study aims to analyse errors written by Year 9 and examine whether the errors derive from the pupils´ mother tongue (Swedish) or not. 20 essays collected from a school in southern Sweden were examined for this study. READ MORE

  5. 4. Cross-linguistic interference of intonation in regard to tag questions in native, second and third language use. Does Russian have an impact on Danish and English in terms of intonation in the tags?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Anna Knudsen; [2011]
    Keywords : Tag questions; Tag Word or Tag Phrase; Rising Intonation Pattern; Additive Bilingualism; Third Language Acquisition; Cross-linguistic interference L1↔L2↔L3; Russian; Danish; English; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This study investigates the cross-linguistic interference between speakers of Russian (as a first language or L1), Danish (as a second language, or L2) and English (as a third language, or L3) in terms of rising intonation patterns in tag questions in read speech. The subjects of the investigation are ten adults with an additive bilingualism between the ages of twenty to twenty-three, who immigrated to Denmark with their parents between the ages of four and fourteen. READ MORE

  6. 5. "You must stay for dinner; we're having cud" : A study of the relationship between Swedish speakers' perception and production of English vowels

    University essay from Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Sigrid Sjösteen; [2010]
    Keywords : Phonology; L2 acquisition; L1 interference; transfer; speech perception; acoustic analysis; spectrographic analysis;

    Abstract : Learning a second language is different from learning our first one. A lot of rules from the first language, concerning e.g. grammar, intonation and phonology, are so firmly rooted within learners that they will transfer them to the new language regardless of whether they are correct or not. READ MORE