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Transfer, Knowledge and Skill in Second Language Development.
McDonough, S. H. – 1985
General theory of transfer of knowledge and skill in learning second languages and ways in which language awareness may contribute to second language learning are examined. It is concluded that while recent second language acquisition research work and theories do not support or refute transfer of general language principles to the learning of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Interlanguage, Language Acquisition, Language Role