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Negative Pragmatic Transfer and Language Proficiency: American Learners of Arabic

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Morkus, Nader – Language Learning Journal, 2021

This study investigated the relationship between language proficiency and negative pragmatic transfer from a first language (L1), focusing on the speech act of refusal as realised by American learners of Arabic as a Foreign Language (AFL) in Egyptian Arabic. Twenty American AFL learners (10 intermediate and 10 advanced) and 2 baseline groups (10…

Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction