Crosslinguistic Influence and Distinctive Patterns of Language Learning

Anne Golden is Professor of Norwegian as a Second Language at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her main research is on literacy in a second language, with a focus on vocabulary and in particular metaphors, studying learners’ comprehension, development and practice in and out of school.Scott Jarvis is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Utah, USA. His areas of research include crosslinguistic influence and lexical diversity. He is the co-editor (with Scott Crossley) of Approaching Language Transfer through Text Classification (2012).Kari Tenfjord is Professor of Norwegian as a second language at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her research focuses on the development and use of Norwegian as a second language with an emphasis on the acquisition of tense.

• Kari Tenfjord (University of Bergen), Anne Golden (University of Oslo) and Scott Jarvis (Ohio University): Preface1. Kari Tenfjord (University of Bergen), Scott Jarvis (Ohio University) and Anne Golden (University of Oslo): Introduction2. Scott Jarvis (Ohio University): Transfer: An Overview with an Expanded Scope3. Ann-Kristin Helland Gujord (University of Bergen): The “Perfect Candidate” for Transfer: A Discussion of L1 Influence in L2 Acquisition of Tense-Aspect Morphology4. Oliwia Szymańska (SWPS Warsaw University of Social Sciences and Humanities): On how Polish Learners of Norwegian Render Spatial Prepositions in L2: A Corpus-Based Study of i and på5. Marta Olga Janik (SWPS Warsaw University of Social Sciences and Humanities): Positive and Negative Transfer in the L2 Adjective Inflection of English, German and Polish Speaking Learners of L2 Norwegian6. Silje Ragnhildstveit (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences): Gender Assignment and L1 Transfer in Norwegian Second Language Learners’ Written Performance7. Kari Tenfjord (University of Bergen) and Torodd Kinn (University of Bergen): Stranded or Lost? Preposition Stranding in Norwegian Learner Languages8. Anne Golden (University of Oslo): Emotions Negotiated in L2 Texts: A Corpus Study of Written Production by Adult Learners on a Norwegian Test9. Anne Golden (University of Oslo), Lars Anders Kulbrandstad (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences) and Kari Tenfjord (University of Bergen): Evaluation of Texts in Tests: Or, Where is the Dog Buried?

This edited volume brings together findings from the ‘ASKeladden – A corpus-based approach to L1 transfer in Norwegian learner language’ project. It will be of great value to researchers and practitioners interested in how learner corpus data can contribute to the theory and practice of second language acquisition. It is also unique in being grounded in Jarvis’s (2000) methodological framework for the study of transfer.