Interlanguage

Selinker, Larry

doi:10.1515/iral.1972.10.1-4.209

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“…Its singular form, communication strategy, first appeared in Selinker (1972) and was then systematically examined in Varadi (1980). Since the 1980s, there has been a flurry of studies investigating communication strategies in second language acquisition research (Ellis, 2008).…”

Section: Concept Of Interactive Communication Strategymentioning

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Validation of the Oral Interaction Strategy Scale for speakers of Chinese as the first language in elementary schools

Zhu¹,

Cai²,

Fan³

et al. 2017

L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature

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This study validated the Oral Interaction Strategy Scale (OISS) for speakers of Chinese as a first language in elementary schools. The OISS measures students' perceptions of how frequently they use interaction strategies of Chinese as a first language (L1 Chinese). The study involved two studies. In the first study, among 642 pupils, we identified seven categories of interaction strategies in Chinese communication. In the second study, among another 678 pupils, the seven-dimension structure was confirmed. Besides, a second-order factor of interaction strategies was established and the relative importance of each firstorder factor to the second-order factor was also examined. The implications for further studies are discussed.

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Section: Concept Of Interactive Communication Strategymentioning

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Validation of the Oral Interaction Strategy Scale for speakers of Chinese as the first language in elementary schools

Zhu¹,

Cai²,

Fan³

et al. 2017

L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature

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“…According to Spolsky (1989), L2 learners' knowledge as a complete whole is quite different from both competing language systems. It is assumed by Selinker (1972) that there exists a latent psychological structure in the brain that is activated whenever an adult attempts to produce meanings in the processes of L2 learning. One of the mechanisms assumed to exist in the latent psychological structure is fossilization which includes linguistic items, rules, and subsystems that speakers of a particular L1 will tend to keep in their Interlanguage relative to a particular L2.…”

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The Effect of L2 Writing Ability on L1 Writing Ability

Hashemian¹

2011

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Abstract-This study was an attempt to examine the effect of L2 writing ability on L1 writing ability from a multilingual perspective. To this end, 120 students of Isfahan University, half English majors and half nonEnglish majors, were assigned to 4 groups, consisting of 30 English major senior students, 30 English major freshman students, 30 non-English major senior students and 30 non-English major freshman students (Accounting and Management majors). All the participants were asked to write a paragraph of about 150 words on the topic "What are your plans for the future?" in Farsi. For analyzing the possible syntactic development in each participant's writing ability, 2 measuring criteria were used: 1) Loban Index, and 2) Tunit. To summarize and analyze the data, both descriptive and inferential statistics were utilized. A one-way ANOVA was run to compare the means of the 4 groups on the Loban Index criterion to see whether their differences were statistically significant. In order to observe the real differences of the means of the 4 groups based on the T-unit criterion and also to specify the interaction between the levels of the independent variables, a one-way ANOVA was run. The results of the 4 groups who studied the L2 (i.e., English) with different intensity indicated that the English major senior students outperformed the other 3 groups in the obtained Fvalue on the Loban Index criterion. The findings support the idea that intensive and successful L2 learning can have a beneficial influence on the development of L1 writing ability.

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“…In Kachru's (1996) view, sacrificing the acquisitional cow implies the critical reflection on the ownership of the English language by native speakers which in turn relates to concepts frequently associated with this ownership such as the notion of interference errors, the notion of interlanguage (Selinker, 1972) and the notion of fossilization. The notion of interference errors considers the native speaker's language as a yardstick against which to judge errors in the target language; the notion of interlanguage also considers the native speaker's language as the target towards which the non-native speaker's language should move in an endless effort to become a developed language system.…”

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