Approaching Language Transfer Through Text Classification: Explorations in the Detectionbased Approach

Second Language Acquisition

by Scott Jarvis (Editor)

This book explains the detectionbased approach to investigating crosslinguistic influence and illustrates the value of the approach through a collection of five empirical studies that use the approach to quantify, evaluate, and isolate the subtle and complex influences of learners' nativelanguage backgrounds on their English writing.

208 pages, Unknown Binding

First published March 1, 2012