Assessing the Impact of Cross-Linguistic Influence on the Writing of Spanish Secondary School EFL Students

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)

Confidenciality: No

Education area(s): Ensenyament i Adquisició de l'Anglès com a Llengua Estrangera - Segona Llengua

Title in different languages: Assessing the Impact of Cross-Linguistic Influence on the Writing of Spanish Secondary School EFL Students

Abstract: This study was designed to investigate the impact of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) on the writing of Spanish EFL students. The sample consisted of 43 3rd ESO students in a semi-private Catalonian school in Tarragona. Data collection tools included two instruments. A pre-questionnaire and a writing task in which participants translated 11 sentences from Spanish into English and answered 3 short questions. The data were analyzed via a Paired Samples T-Test and a One-Way ANOVA in JASP. The results demonstrate that CLI is an important aspect in second language acquisition and implies that it should not be ignored by language practitioners.

Subject: Ensenyament

Academic year: 2023-2024

Language: en

Work's public defense date: 2024-06-21

Subject areas: Philology

Student: Atach, Ipek

Department: Estudis Anglesos i Alemanys

Creation date in repository: 2024-07-04

TFM credits: 11

Keywords: Cross-linguistic influence (CLI), L1 (first language/mother tongue) interference, negative transfer.

Title in original language: Assessing the Impact of Cross-Linguistic Influence on the Writing of Spanish Secondary School EFL Students

Access Rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Project director: Hryckiewicz de Apellániz, Olga