Abstract
The first language has been considered the main source of transfer for the acquisition of further languages for a long time. However, studies by linguists such as Hufeisen (Tertiärsprachen. Theorien, modelle, methode. Tübingen, Stauffenburg, 169–183, 1998), Cenoz and Jessner (The english in Europe. The acquisition of a third language. Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, p. 9, 2000), Cenoz (Cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition: psycholinguistic perspectives. Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, pp. 8–19, 2001), and Hammarberg (Cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition: psycholinguistic perspectives. Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, pp. 21–41, 2001) found that the L3 learner has already acquired one second language (L2) and thus this knowledge plays a role in the acquisition of other foreign languages. The research aim of our whole project is to account for the ways and paths of the activation of prior languages in the multilingual acquisition of English. The foci of the present study are the negative transfer phenomena of the second language (L2) German in the third language (L3) acquisition of English. In the present study, we set forth the possibility of negative transfer in L3 interlanguage based on the ‘L2 status factor’ and attempt to explain whether these occurrences of L2 negative transfer can be documented in the L3 written data from learners with different L1 s and at different L3 proficiency levels.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsReferences
Bardel, C. 2010. The lexicon of advanced L2 learners. In Kenneth Hyltenstam (eds.) High-level proficiency in second language use. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Bardel, C. and Falk, Y. 2007. The role of the second language in third language acquisition: the case of Germanic syntax. Second Language Research 23: 459–84.
Bouvy, C. 2000. Towards the construction of a theory of cross-linguistic transfer. In English in Europe:The acquisition of a third language, ed. J. Cenoz and U. Jessner, 143–156. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Cenoz, J. 2001. The effect of linguistic distance, L2 status and age on cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition. In Cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition: Psycholinguistic perspectives, ed. J. Cenoz, B. Hufeisen, and U. Jessner, 8–19. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Cenoz, J. and Jessner, U. 2000. The English in Europe. The Acquisition of a Third Language. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters (Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 19).
Cenoz, J., Hufeisen, B. and Jessner, U., 2001. Cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition: Psycholinguistic perspectives. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
De Angelis, G. 2007. Third or Additional language Acquisition. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Dentler, S. 2000. Deutsch und English – das gibt immer Krieg. In Tertiär und Drittsprachen. Projekte und empirische Untersuchungen, ed. Sigrid Dentler, Britta Hufeisen, and Beate Lindemann, 77–97. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
De Angelis, G. and Selinker, L. 2001. Interlanguage transfer and competing linguistic systems in the multilingual mind. In Cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition: Psycholinguistic perspectives, ed. J. Cenoz, B. Hufeisen, and U. Jessner, 42–58. Clevendon: Multilingual Matters.
Dewaele, J.-M. 1998. Lexical inventions: French interlanguage as L2 versus L3. Applied Linguistics 19: 471–49.
Falk, Y. and Bardel, C. 2010. The study of the role of the background languages in third language acquisition. The state of the art. In: IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 48 (2–3): 185–219.
Flynn, S.L., Claire, F. and Inna, V. 2004. The Cumulative Enhancement Model for Language Acquisition. International Journal of Multilingualism, 1:1, 3–17.
Gabryś-Barker, D. 2005. Aspects of multlingual storage, processing and retrieval, Katowice: University of Silesia Press
Håkansson, G., Pienemann, M. and Sayehli, S. 2002. Transfer and typological proximity in the context of second language processing. Second Language Research 18(3): 250–273.
Hammarberg, B. 2001. Roles of L1 and L2 in L3 production and acquisition. In Cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition: Psycholinguistic perspectives, ed. J. Cenoz, B. Hufeisen, and U. Jessner, 21–41.Clevendon: Multilingual Matters.
Hammarberg, B. 2010. The languages of the multilingual: Some conceptual and terminological issues. In: IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 48 (2–3): 91–104.
Herwig, A. 2001. Plurilingual lexical organization. In Cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition: Psycholinguistic perspectives, ed. J. Cenoz, B. Hufeisen, and U. Jessner, 1115–1137. Clevendon: Multilingual Matters.
Hoffmann, C. 2001. Towards a description of trilingual comepetence. In: International Journal of Bilingualism 5 (1): 1–17.
Hufeisen, B. 1998. L3 - Stand der Forschung - Was bleibt zu tun? In Tertiärsprachen. Theorien, Modelle, Methoden Hufeisen ed. B. and Lindemann, B., 169–183. Tübingen: Stauffenburg.
Odlin, T. 1996. Could a Contrastive Analysis Ever Be Complete? In Cross-Linguistic Influences in the Second Language Lexicon ed. Janusz Arabski, 22–35. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Ringbom, H. 1987. The role of the first language in foreign language learning. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Rivers, W.M. 1979. Learning a sixth language: an adult learner’s daily diary. The Canadian Modern Language Review 36 (1): 67–82.
Rothman, J. and Amaro, C. J. 2010. What variables condition syntactic transfer? A look at the L3 initial state. Second Language Research 26 (2): 189–218.
Singleton, D. 1987. Mother and other tongue influences on learner French. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 9: 327–346.
Williams, S. and Hammarberg, B. 1998. Language switches in L3 production: Implications for a polyglot speaking model. Applied Linguistics, 19: 295–333.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Angelovska, T., Hahn, A. (2012). Written L3 (English): Transfer Phenomena of L2 (German) Lexical and Syntactic Properties. In: Gabrys-Barker, D. (eds) Cross-linguistic Influences in Multilingual Language Acquisition. Second Language Learning and Teaching. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29557-7_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29557-7_2
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-29556-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-29557-7
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and LawEducation (R0)