Language Interference and Its Types
What is language interference?
The influence of the native language on the learning of a foreign language.
What is positive interference?
The beneficial use of native language knowledge to form correct structures in a foreign language.
What is generalization?
A learning strategy in which a rule or concept is inferred from specific instances.
The idea that interference and overgeneralization are separate processes.?!
The idea that interference and overgeneralization are not separate processes but related aspects of learning
What is interference related to?
A phenomenon closely connected with bilingualism and interlingual contact.
What is negative interference?
Errors caused by transferring non-corresponding features of the native language into a foreign language.
What is meaningful learning?
Ausubel’s concept in which new information is subsumed under higher-order categories for retention.
Transfer is considered as...
cognitive factors of a learner.
What are the main types of interference?
Levels at which interference may occur, including phonetic, lexical, and grammatical.
What is native language influence on the category of person?
An error where Uzbek learners omit subject pronouns in English sentences.
What is an example of early conceptual overgeneralization?
Calling a horse a “dog” because the learner has generalized the concept too narrowly.
Partial comparison is ...
related to the initial stage of foreign language teaching
What is interlingual analogy?
A process in which learners transfer native language patterns into a foreign language system.
What is the comparison of non-related languages?
This type of language comparison is especially important when teaching structurally different and unrelated languages.
What is past-tense overgeneralization?
Forms such as “goed” or “flied” produced before irregular verb rules are learned.
Full comparison relates to
the more advanced stages of foreign language teaching and is carried out in one of the languages being studied