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  1. 1. Mother Tongue Influence when Learning a Second Language : A Contrastive Analysis of Swedish Gymnasium Students

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Ebba Müller; Stephanie Dahlquist; [2023]
    Keywords : Linguistics; contrastive analysis; mother tongue; influence; interference; errors;

    Abstract : The intended purpose of this essay was to examine student essays to find out if there are any first language interferences in Swedish students’ written English. First language interference has been researched before, which will be presented in the essay, amongst other terms such as translanguaging, acquisition and language transfer, all explained in the theoretical concepts section. READ MORE

  3. 2. Native language interference in Bangladeshi students’ use of articles in English essays : A comparison of Bengali medium and English medium schools

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

    Author : Md Arifuzzaman; [2015]
    Keywords : Native language interference; language transfer; second language acquisition SLA ; English as a foreign language EFL ; modersmålsinterferens; transfer; andraspråkinlärning; främmandespråksinlärning;

    Abstract : The impact of the first language on the second language has long been a vibrant and controversial issue in terms of second language acquisition. The impact or influence happens when learners learn a new language and transfer features from their native language to the new language. READ MORE

  4. 3. 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

  5. 4. "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

  6. 5. Native Swedish Speakers’ Problems with English Prepositions

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Humanistiska institutionen

    Author : Hanna Jansson; [2007]
    Keywords : Second Language Learning; Error Analysis; Prepositions;

    Abstract : This essay investigates native Swedish speakers’ problems in the area of prepositions. A total of 19 compositions, including 678 prepositions, written by native Swedish senior high school students were analysed. All the prepositions in the material were judged as either basic, systematic or idiomatic. READ MORE