L1 interference

There is no such thing as tabula rasa in language learning - or possibly any other sort of learning, either. When you learn a language as an adult - as opposed to acquiring a language as a child (which is a different issue, but probably not tabula rasa either) - you inevitably have your first language influencing everything you learn.So, the language teacher has to be be aware of this factor, and how it will affect the...

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