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Second Language Proficiency Differences in the Learning of Semantically-Equivalent Bilingual Sentences.
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Opoku, J. Y. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
Study of native speakers of Yoruba who spoke English as a second language found that transfer of learning from one language to the other decreased with increasing proficiency in English. Transfer from Yoruba to English was higher than from English to Yoruba at lower levels of proficiency in English. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis