1st Edition

Rediscovering Interlanguage

304 Pages
by Routledge

312 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