Approaching Language Transfer through Text Classification: Explorations in the Detection-based Approach

Second Language Acquisition

by Scott Jarvis, Scott A. Crossley

This book explains the detection-based 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’ native-language backgrounds on their English writing.

198 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 1, 2012