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Hyltenstam, Kenneth; Bylund, Emanuel; Abrahamsson, Niclas; Park, Hyeon-Sook – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2009
This article challenges a recent proposal for the theoretical interpretation of L1 and L2 interaction that results from the abrupt change of language environment in internationally adopted children. According to this proposal (Pallier, Dehaene, Poline, LeBihan, Argenti, Depoux and Mehler, 2003; Ventureyra, Pallier and Yoo, 2004), such children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adoption, Latin Americans, Second Language Learning
Faerch, Claus; And Others – 1984
Five papers on bilingualism are presented. "Giving Transfer a Boost--Describing Transfer Variation in Learners' Interlanguage Performance" by Claus Faerch suggests, outlines, and illustrates a heuristic principle for describing the result of positive transfer from one language to another, based on the assumption that learners maximize…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), English, Immigrants