Foreign Language Learning in a Multilingual Setting: The Predictability of "The Mother Tongue Effect.".

Chumbow, Boban Sammy

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Publication Date: 1984

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Foreign Language Learning in a Multilingual Setting: The Predictability of "The Mother Tongue Effect."

Chumbow, Boban Sammy

International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, v22 n4 p287-96 Nov 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, Sociolinguistics

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Cameroon; Nigeria

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