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Wijayanto, Agus; Hikmat, Mauly Halwat; Prasetyarini, Aryati – Online Submission, 2018
The study investigated intentions and motivating factors of using impoliteness in interlanguage complaints by English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. Empirical data were elicited by means of oral discourse completion tasks and questionnaires from 42 Indonesian learners of English. Post-structured interviews were conducted to obtain the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Forteza Fernandez, Rafael Filiberto; Korneeva, Larisa I. – Online Submission, 2017
Based on Selinker's hypothesis of five psycholinguistic processes shaping interlanguage (1972), the paper focuses attention on the Russian L2-learners' overreliance on the L1 as the main factor hindering their development. The research problem is, therefore, the high incidence of L1 transfer in the spoken and written English language output of…
Descriptors: Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Interlanguage