Language Transfer and Multilingualism in Foreign Language Learning
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acquire second or third language. Obviously, previous researches have turned out a rather definite fact that multilingual learners have an
advantage over monolingual learners in different angles. However, language transfer have positive and negative impact on multilingual acquisition, specifically, in foreign language learning. This study focuses on the relationship between language transfer and multilingual acquisition. It is unfolded from the role of language transfer in language acquisition, the impact of multilingualism on students’ learning
ability and the measures of improving multilingual competence with language transfer.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v7i22.9753
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