The Effect of First Language Transfer on Second Language Acquisition and Learning: From Contrastive Analysis to Contemporary Neuroimaging

The effect of first language transfer on second acquisition and learning has been a major theoretical concept in research pedagogy since the 1950s. In order to give historical perspective, authors offer brief presentation some topics from broad spectrum issues that have examined by applied linguistics community during past six decades significant developments neuroimaging cognitive science allowed researchers investigate role plays neural activity processing. paper concludes with pedagogical implications for instructors.