Essays on language transfer in language learning include: excerpts from "Linguistics across Cultures" (Robert Lado); "Language Transfer" (Larry Selinker); "Goofing: An Indication of Children's Second Language Learning Strategies" (Heidi C. Dulay, Marina K. Burt); "Language Transfer and Universal Grammatical Relations" (Susan Gass); "A Role for the Mother Tongue" (S. Pit Corder); "A New Account of Language Transfer" (Jacquelyn Schachter); "Now You See It, Now You Don't" (Eric Kellerman); "Newmark's 'Ignorance Hypothesis' and Current Second Language Acquisition Theory" (Stephen D. Krashen); "Verification of Language Transfer" (Josh Ard, Taco Homburg); "Transfer to Somewhere" (Roger W. Andersen); "L1 Acquisition, Age of L2 Acquisition, and the Learning of Word Order" (Helmut Zobl);"On First Language Loss in the Second Language Acquirer: Problems of Transfer" (Michael Sharwood Smith); "Sociocultural Competence and Language Transfer: The Case of Apology" (Elite Olshtain); "The Transferability of Lexical Properties" (Christian Adjemian); "Nonobvious Transfer: On Predicting Epenthesis Errors" (Ellen Broselow); "Language Transfer and the Acquisition of Pronominal Anaphora" (Jeanette K. Gundel, Elaine E. Tarone); "Transfer and Variability of Rhetorical Redundancy in Apachean English Interlanguage" (H. Guillermo Bartelt); "Discourse Accent in Second Language Performance" (Robin C. Scarcella); "Discourse Functions in Interlanguage Morphology" (Peter Jordens); and "Language Typology and Language Transfer" (William E. Rutherford). (MSE)