TY  - CHAP
AU  - Cysouw, Michael
ED  - Saxena, Anju
ED  - Borin, Lars
AB  - The difficulty people have in learning a foreign language strongly depends on how different this language is from their native tongue (Kellerman 1979). Although this statement seems uncontroversial in the general form as it is formulated here, the devil lies in the detail, namely in the problem how to define differences between languages. In this paper, I investigate various factors that quantify differences between languages, and explore to which extend these factors predict language learning difficulty. This investigation results in concrete predictive formulas that derive the learning difficulty for native English speakers depending on a small selection of linguistic factors of the language to be learned.
DO  - 10.1515/9783110305258.57
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1006430
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135847116
KW  - linguistic differences
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/f0a2d9d8-b6ac-4487-93c5-d96a33104b72/26_[9783110305258 - Approaches] Predicting.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23714
PB  - De Gruyter
PP  - Berlin/Boston
PY  - 2013
SN  - 9783110488081
TI  - Chapter Predicting language-learning difficultynull
ER  - 
