AVOIDANCE OF IDIOMS IN A SECOND LANGUAGE: THE EFFECT OF L1-L2 DEGREE OF SIMILARITY

By B. Laufer. 2000

136 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. N. Schmitt
2. Kathy Conklin
3. A. Siyanova
4. E. Peters
5. Stuart Webb
6. Lars Stenius Stæhr
7. Ron Martinez
8. A. Siyanova‐Chanturia

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. N. Schmitt
2. Kathy Conklin
3. A. Siyanova
4. Ron Martinez
5. A. Siyanova‐Chanturia
6. Alison Wray

In Language and Linguistics

1. N. Schmitt
2. Kathy Conklin
3. A. Siyanova
4. E. Peters
5. Stuart Webb
6. Lars Stenius Stæhr
7. M. Garnier
8. A. Siyanova‐Chanturia

Citations in the corpus

• Native and nonnative use of multi-word vs. one-word verbs (2007, background): “Laufer (2000), Dagut and Laufer (1985), and Schachter (1974) argue that L2 learners tend to avoid those linguistic categories that do not exist in their L1, and so it is unsurprising that several studies have shown that learners avoid these verb forms, and struggle with them when they do try to use…”
• Formulaic Sequences: Are They Processed More Quickly than Nonformulaic Language by Native and Nonnative Speakers? (2008, background): “Some of the other languages where formulaic sequences have been noted include French (Arnaud and Savignon 1997; Cardey and Greenfield 2002), Spanish (Butler 1997), Italian (Tognini-Bonelli 2002), German (Bahns 1993; Gläser 1998), Swedish (Bolander 1989), Polish (Zabor 1998), Arabic (Farghal and Obi”