Cross-Linguistic Influence: The Case of Adjective and Preposition Collocations
Cross-Linguistic Influence: The Case of Adjective and Preposition Collocations

Summary/Abstract: The impact of previously learned knowledge on newly learned knowledge has long been recognized and named interference. Interference in a language is the influence of a previously learned language on any target language. So-called language transfer, this notion may render the learning process harder for the learners and result in fossilization in some cases. Thus, researchers and language teachers should consider this influence and find ways to repair the damages it might cause. In order to provide the field with a study that analyses the effect of cross-linguistic influence in Turkish EFL learners, this study attempts to pinpoint English adjective-preposition collocation that may induce language transfer by utilizing a test that uses a test assesses the type mentioned above of collocation knowledge of 291 Turkish EFL learners. The findings have revealed that some collocations result from language transfer, and a list containing transfer-inducing collocations has been presented.

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