1st Edition

Rediscovering Interlanguage

    304 Pages
    by Routledge

    312 Pages
    by Routledge

    An account of the development of research and thinking in the field of learner language. Draws on wide-ranging research into contrastive analysis, bilingualism, theoretical linguistics and experimental psychology.

    Foreword, William E. Rutherford
    Acknowledgements
    Abbreviations
    Introduction: Scope of the study

    1. Beginnings: Fries/Lado
    2. Towards interlanguage: Uriel Weinreich
    3. Units and equivalence across linguistic systems: Some bilingual data
    4. Some problems of comparison: The CA literature
    5. Some CA and EA ( and possibly IL ) data
    6. Theoretical advances: Corder and Van Buren
    7. The quintessential CA/IL notion: Language transfer
    8. The continual discovery of IL
    9. The reality of fossilization: An allegorical account
    10. Reframing interlanguage: Where we are

    Appendix
    References
    Index

    Biography

    Larry Selinker, William E. Rutherford