Approaching Language Transfer Through Text Classification


Authors: Scott Jarvis, Scott A. Crossley

Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published Date: 2012-03-14

Language: en

Description: 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.