Influence of Closeness Between Languages on L2 Acquisition Through Language Transfer

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10.2991/assehr.k.211020.332How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Second Language Acquisition, Writing System, Language Transfer

Abstract

This study examines how the closeness between first language and second language affects second language acquisition, in terms of writing systems. The researchers analyzed the influence by asking experiment participants to write down characters of a second language (Japanese and Korean) at first exposure, noted the accuracy rate and recorded ways of errors of the characters. Despite being hypothized to have a lower accuracy rate due to negative transfer from L1, Japanese had a higher accuracy rate as the impact of positive transfer exceeded that of negative transfer in this study; besides the accuracy rate, through analysis of patterns of writings, the study has shown the importance of transferring phenomena in SLA, as the participants were found actively making connections to their first language.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Shuchang Liu
AU  - Xidong Fu
AU  - Mingshuang Duan
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/21
TI  - Influence of Closeness Between Languages on L2 Acquisition Through Language Transfer
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Relations and Social Sciences (ICPRSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1216
EP  - 1222
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211020.332
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.332
ID  - Liu2021
ER  -