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Sunday, March 9, 2014

FIRST LANGUAGE INFLUENCE ON SECOND LANGUAGE PERFORMANCE BY Prisna Aswarita Putri

       Introduction

It has been presumed that first language acquisition possesses influence on the second language performance. The influence can positively support the second language performance, and even inhibit the advance of second language performance. Some errors can be traced on the process of acquiring and learning second language due to inappropriate transfer of first language existing set of cognitive structures. Common terms of the errors are interference (negative transfer) and overgeneralization.
It is quite interesting to discuss since the errors do exist in the process of acquiring and learning second language, especially in early stage. Many scholars have pinpointed this, but still, some second language learners could not avoid the pitfalls of the errors. That is why yielding explanatory report of the errors is undoubtedly needed.