Approaching language transfer through text classification explorations in the detection-based approach

• Main Authors: Jarvis, Scott, Crossley, Scott A
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol Multilingual Matters 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: Second Language Acquisition
• Subjects: computer classifiers to detect language background; crosslinguistic influence; crosslinguistic influence in SLA; detection-based approach; English language; English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching; Language Arts & Disciplines; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching; Language transfer (Language learning); learners’ native-language backgrounds; Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Rhetoric; Study & Teaching; Study and teaching; transfer in language learning; transfer in SLA; detection-based approach; transfer in SLA; crosslinguistic influence; learners’ native-language backgrounds; transfer in language learning; crosslinguistic influence in SLA; computer classifiers to detect language background
• ISBN: 1847696996; 9781847696977; 9781847696991; 184769697X; 9781847696984; 1847696988
• DOI: 10.21832/9781847696991

This book explains the detection-based approach to investigating crosslinguistic influence and illustrates the value of the approach through a collection of five empirical studies that use the approach to quantify, evaluate, and isolate the subtle and complex influences of learners' native-language backgrounds on their English writing.