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Chumbow, Boban Sammy – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1984
Claims that the mother tongue function in foreign language learning over a background of two or more languages is transferable to any one of the background languages and that this transfer is predictable by a set of principles. Presents applications of the principles to multilingual settings of Nigeria and Cameroon. (SED)
Descriptors: Interference (Language), Language Dominance, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning