Positive aspects of negative lexical transfer
This thesis seeks to answer whether negative lexical transfers used in oral speech have a negative effect over communication. In the field of Applied Linguistics, it has been argued that positive lexical transfers facilitate foreign language acquisition and communication, while negative lexical tran...
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| Tipo de documento: | tese |
| Data de publicação: | 2018 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositório: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/16262 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/16262 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | 811.111'243(043.2) Language transfer (language learning) Transferencia lingüística (Aprendizaje del lenguaje) Lingüística Filología inglesa 57 Lingüística 5505.10 Filología |
| Resumo: | This thesis seeks to answer whether negative lexical transfers used in oral speech have a negative effect over communication. In the field of Applied Linguistics, it has been argued that positive lexical transfers facilitate foreign language acquisition and communication, while negative lexical transfers interfere with communication. This thesis questions this premise and the use of the term “negative” to refer to this type of lexical transfer. This research analyses the oral speech of twenty USA L1-English speakers-learners of L2-Spanish. It identifies, classifies and explains the lexical transfers found in the participants’ speech. Of the total of 1013 lexical transfer that are found, 25.96% are positive and 74.04% are negative. Twenty native Spanish speakers are asked to listen to the lexical transfers made by the USA participants so as to examine the effect such lexical transfers have on communication and whether they are understood. The findings show that L1-Spanish speakers actually understand the transfers made by USA L1-English speakers-learners of L2-Spanish, in 80.48% of the total of negative lexical transfers used by the twenty USA participants. This thesis concludes that what has been called “negative” lexical transfers in the field of Applied Linguistics actually do not have a negative effect over communication and, therefore, proposes that its naming be reconsidered. |
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