Cross-linguistic influence in third language: Examples from students’ written production
The present study sheds light on cross-linguistic influence in third language learning and intends to find out how the previously acquired languages influence the learning of L3. This study focuses on the nature of cross-linguistic influence when more than two languages are involved. It aims to expl...
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| Language: | Catalan |
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2025-06-01
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| Series: | Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature |
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| Online Access: | https://revistes.uab.cat/jtl3/article/view/1348 |
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| Summary: | The present study sheds light on cross-linguistic influence in third language learning and intends to find out how the previously acquired languages influence the learning of L3. This study focuses on the nature of cross-linguistic influence when more than two languages are involved. It aims to explore how language transfer manifests itself in participants’ written production. Twenty-six secondary school students, who have two languages as their background languages (Arabic and French) and English as a third language, took part in this study. The instruments included a written task that is designed to find out how the previously acquired languages affect the learning process of the third language and to explore the factors that affect cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition. The findings showed that due to the typological proximity between L2 French and L3 English, participants transfer from the second language, which works as a facilitation in L3 learning due to the typological similarity between French and English.
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| ISSN: | 2013-6196 |