What Causes Avoidance in L2 Learning: L1-L2 difference, L1-L2 Similarity, or L2 Complexity?.

Laufer, Batia; Eliasson, Stig

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Publication Date: 1993

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What Causes Avoidance in L2 Learning: L1-L2 difference, L1-L2 Similarity, or L2 Complexity?

Laufer, Batia; Eliasson, Stig

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, v15 n1 p35-48 Mar 1993

On multiple-choice and translation tests, 87 Swedish-speaking learners of English avoided neither phrasal nor figurative verbs, regardless of whether the verbs were similar to, or different from their Swedish translation equivalence. (Author)

Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Acquisition, Language Usage, Multiple Choice Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Languages, Swedish, Translation, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Verbs

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