Crosslinguistic influence on Chinese-English postgraduate students' written production of adverbial clauses in different language environments

Thesis

The interplay between a bilingual learner’s first language (L1) and second language (L2), referred to as crosslinguistic influence (CLI), has received considerable attention in second language acquisition (SLA) research. Contrary to how most previous CLI studies have treated this phenomenon, this study emphasizes on the bidirectional nature of CLI: it can occur from the L1 to the L2 (i.e., forward transfer) or from the L2 to the L1 (i.e., reverse transfer). Since forward transfer has been ext...

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Authors: Yan, Y

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-zbxznnnp0
• Type of award: MSc taught course
• Level of award: Masters
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: ALSLA2024; second language acquisition; crosslinguistic influence; quantitative research; bidirectional; ALSLA; syntactic priming; L2 proficiency level; language environment
• Subjects: Second language acquisition; Quantitative research; Applied linguistics