[en] THE IN BETWEEN LANGUAGES: THE CROSS-LINGUISTIC INFLUENCE BETWEEN SECOND AND THIRD LANGUAGES IN WRITTEN PRODUCTION

[pt] CRISTIANNE GONCALVES DE SOUSA

[en] LANGUAGE

[en] INTERFERENCE

[en] Some Brazilian parents seem to be concerned about their children having the opportunity to learn a third language apart from English. Among the implications of learning two second languages during the school years is that there might be more instances of cross-linguistic influence between those languages learned after the mother tongue (Angelis and Selinker, 2001). Cross-linguistic influences affect language learners due to the attempt to connect the new elements learned to whatever linguistic and other knowledge one may have and this may play an underlying role in the process of acquiring two or more second languages (Ringbom, 2001). L2 transfer in L3 production is manifested especially clearly in lexis (Ringbom, 2001, p.61). This paper aims to report the finding of a pilot study on the influence of German (L2) in English (L3) written productions, and vice versa, in a school setting. With this purpose, this paper examines compositions written by 22 subjects in both second languages. An interview was also carried in order to collect information about the students’ exposure to both second languages. The preliminary results of the research show that 55,4 per cent of the subjects in this study do not produce any kind of lexical influence between German and English. The main conclusion to be drawn from this study is that students tend to borrow words that are morphologically similar to the target language. The results did not reveal more in-depth structural interference, although a broader study is necessary to attest to this.

SILVIA BEATRIZ ALEXANDRA BECHER COSTA

2013-01-29

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https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/colecao.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=21058@2

https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.21058