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Oleo de José Tola
From: Ken Klein
Date: 2/9/99
Time: 11:12:20 PM
Remote Name: 207.172.186.140
Hi everyone! Linguistic food for thought . . . Corder writes in his article, "Language difference and the magnitude of the learning task" that interlanguage speech errors are developmental, not 'interference.' I believe he feels that there is no such thing as a 'negative transfer,' but that the learner is merely borrowing from his knowledge of L1. Are we simply playing semantical gymnastics? Does anyone feel that transfers, no matter what the origin, can in fact be viewed as interferences since they impede the learning of an L2?